Unite.H2020
Towards a shared R&I strategy for Unite!
Objective
WP1 will be dedicated to the coordination and management of the project.
Tasks
- 1.1 Coordination of the project activities, monitoring and reporting
- 1.2 Administrative and financial management of the project
- 1.3 Quality management, risk assessment, IPR management
- 1.4 Data management of the research input and research output data
Coordinator
Politecnico di Torino
Objective
WP2 will develop a joint R&I agenda for Unite!, enabling tangible progress of the partner universities and the alliance as a whole, in line with Horizon Europe 2021-2027, the European Commission’s priorities, such as the European Green Deal and the SDGs in the UN agenda 2030, as well as seamlessly integrated with the education agenda which is being developed in the complementary Erasmus+ project, from which Unite! was born.
Tasks
- 2.1 Identification of research & innovation challenges and convergences of the partners universities in line with the mission statement of the Unite! European University Alliance
- 2.2 Setting up of the Unite! Agenda and joint action plans to create EU-level critical mass
- 2.3 Implementation of action plans and the R&I agenda
Coordinator
Politecnico di Torino
Objective
This task will list all significant RIs within the Alliance, including short description, main topic, documents related to access conditions, operational processes, operating costs, existence of sites managing remote access or facilitating links between RIs. A thematic classification will be proposed in order to allow further collaborating groups in Task 3.2. Such catalogue has already been carried out by the Nordic5Tech alliance and we will benefit from their experience.
Tasks
- 3.1 Listing all main technological and data Research Infrastructures among the Alliance, and identifying the potential synergies
- 3.2 Sharing good practices in operating these infrastructures, and defining the policy for opening them within the Alliance. Disseminating these infrastructures within the Alliance and developing a joint consensus on industrial access
- 3.3 Illustrating and enriching the sharing guideline with two pilot projects
Coordinator
Grenoble INP graduate schools of engineering and management, University Grenoble Alpes
Objective
WP4 aims at creating a community of Technology Transfer Offices to improve co-working of academia with companies and institutions in the diverse Unite! ecosystems. Academia will cooperate assessing the needs of structural changes regarding digital transformation and the involvement in the SDGs goals and building a roadmap to co-work them.
Tasks
- 4.1 create a community of Technology Transfer Offices to improve co-working of academia with companies and institutions in the diverse Unite! ecosystems. Academia will cooperate assessing the needs of structural changes regarding digital transformation and the involvement in the SDGs goals and building a roadmap to co-work them. The WP will identify resources, services, best practices and models of Unite! TTOs in order to develop a common/shared offer for companies and institutions. Thematically, the technological specialisation of the Alliance members will be mapped through IP analysis and other sources, with a special focus on technologies related to digital transformation and SDGs in businessThis is complementary to the tasks being carried out in WP9 Regional Involvement and Innovation of the Unite! Erasmus+ 2019
- 4.2 For understanding the business point of view, the value proposition will be developed using stakeholder analysis and an assessment will be done for the companies and institutions in Unite!:Mapping the opportunities that SDGs offer to business and how they perceive themMapping the degree of digitalization of business.
- 4.3 A roadmap approach will be developed to
- i) help industries to implement a SDG agenda (one pilot in each region)
- ii) create an open community on “Enabling Smart Green Markets” within Unite!
Coordinator
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC)
Objective
WP5 will (I) collect and analyse the best practices and existing policies for HRS4R in research and academia; policies and measures to eliminate brain drain and to strengthen knowledge circulation; barriers to equal inclusion and effective strategies to attract, assess and reward researchers; (II) design, develop and propose methodologies and tools to promote equality and balanced work life in Academia; a framework (starting from the EU HRS4R tool) to motivate, inspire, and exchange talented human resources; joint actions to transparent procedures on attract-recruit-assess highly talented researchers and to valorise diversification, knowledge circulation and vitalisation of career paths across Unite!, in synergy with their education dimension.
Tasks
- 5.1 COLLECT AND ANALYSE the best practices and existing policies on HR strategies in place in the 7 institutions 3 of which have already received the HR excellence in research award of the European Commission; policies and measures to eliminate brain drain and to strengthen knowledge circulation; drivers and gaps that still impose barriers to equal inclusion and effective strategies to attract, assess and reward researchers. identify contextual specificities and cultural differences that influence these aspects and the way how these are seen and managed by different Unite! partners in different countries.
- 5.2 DESIGN, DEVELOP AND PROPOSE methodologies and tools to promote equity and balanced work life in Academia; a framework (starting from the EU HRS4R tool) to motivate, inspire, and exchange talented human resources; joint actions to transparent procedures on attract-recruit-assess and reward highly talented researchers and to valorise diversification, knowledge circulation and vitalisation of career paths across Unite!, in synergy with their education dimension.
Coordinator
ULisboa
Objective
WP6 will provide new high impact understanding about best practices of open science and innovation of research teams at Unite! universities. The specific objectives of WP6 are: (6.1) to identify and mainstream best practices of open science and innovation of Unite! research teams; (6.2) to understand, identify, and demonstrate enablers and inhibitors of open science and innovation, and outline foundations for a new open science and innovation governance model and policy in Unite!; (6.3) to explore how this model and policy contribute to the solving of gran societal challenges, and can be scalable-up at the European level.
Tasks
- 6.1 To identify and mainstream best practices of open science and innovation of Unite! research teams in order to support the development of the mindset and worldviews of researchers for new ways of collaboration and joint research for a sustainable world.
- 6.2 To understand, identify and demonstrate enablers and inhibitors of open science and innovation, and outline foundations for a new University open science and innovation governance model and policy.
- 6.3 To explore how this new governance model and policy contribute to the solving of grand societal challenges, especially those of a sustainable world for humans, society and nature as mandated in UN 2030 Agenda, and can be scalable-up at the European level.
Coordinator
Aalto University
Objective
WP7 will (I) make the Unite! R&I environment accessible and inclusive by enhancing the awareness and involvement of citizens and societal organizations on how the SDGs and related R&I initiatives affect and improve their lives, and (II) define a strategy to involve societal organizations in the R&I activities carried out by Unite!. WP8 will (I) select other European University Alliances or groups of Alliances that are complementary to our Alliance, based on the potential for interactions in the areas of R&I and education, at the local, regional, and national level as well as European level, and (II) exchange ideas, best practices, and identify barriers with selected Alliances, in order to understand how we can facilitate a technical and content-related collaboration in R&I activities, and collaborate on a more integrated approach on scientific and technical education.
Tasks
- 7.1 Make the Unite! R&I environment accessible and inclusive by enhancing the awareness and involvement of citizens and societal organizations on how the SDGs and related R&I initiatives affect and improve their lives.
- 7.2 Define a strategy on how to involve societal organizations in the research and innovation activities carried out by the alliance.
Coordinator
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Objective
The outputs of this WP will contribute on how to share good practices and tackle common barriers, as part of the overall European University Initiative monitoring framework (in line with the European Commission's aims). For this, the Unite! Alliance is convinced that next to the identification of potential partner Alliances, matchmaking workshops, pilot collaborations and pilot structures with those Alliances can directly contribute to this overall goal.
Tasks
- 8.1 To select other European University Alliances or groups of Alliances that are complementary to our Alliance, based on the potential for interactions in the areas of research and innovation and education, at the local, regional, and national level as well as European level.
- 8.2 To exchange ideas, best practices, and to identify barriers with selected Alliances, in order to understand how we can facilitate a technical and content-related collaboration in research and innovation activities, and collaborate on a more integrated approach on scientific and technical education.
Coordinator
Technical University of Darmstadt
Objective
WP9 will create a coherent and meaningful narrative and tailored messages that explain the extension, depth and impact of the Unite! R&I activities and character that can be shared through communication and dissemination to our various stakeholders. Furthermore, dissemination and exploitation will have a close overlap, since the main objective of Unite!H2020 is to develop a shared, integrated, long-term R&I strategy for the Unite! European University Alliance. Dissemination activities will first stimulate the of Unite! guidelines circulation and guarantee their availability, second, in the long term dissemination will lead to the adoption of these guidelines by the Unite! Universities and target groups. This represents Unite! exploitation potential to generate a structural and sustainable change in society in line with the addressed SDGs.
Tasks
- 9.1 to reach both the communities of the partner universities and the interested audiences of the quadruple helix with the Unite! message.
- 9.2 to spread the role of the alliance as a positive contributor to the principles of Open Science in the framework of the SDGs, through the focus areas of Unite, namely Energy, AI, and Industry 4.0 as well as other fields that may emerge from the different WPs as they evolve.
- 9.3 to create communication models that facilitate the involvement of citizens and society, that at the same time, can be the basis to share good practices with other European University Alliances.