EUTOPIA TRAIN

EUTOPIA-TRAIN is an ambitious research initiative, committed to the creation of challenge-driven knowledge-creation community that capitalises on the EUTOPIA partners' joint potential to promote innovation and societal impact. This programme aims to extend EUTOPIA's challenge-led model to the development of its Research and Innovation (R&I) activities, tackle two main challenges:

• Integrate pan-EUTOPIA R&I Communities
• Open up EUTOPIA research communities to society, business, students, students and policy-makers.

To this end, three cross-cutting objectives will be targeted:

• Developing R&I synergies and delivering a joint Research Strategy
• Mutualising resources and tools
• Defining a shared R&I policy.

These objectives are implemented across six working packages.

EUTOPIA TRAIN builds up EUTOPIA research capacity in both human and technical resources, disseminate and co-create policies for European Universities and contribute to the development of EU R&I performance. On July 24, 2020, the EUTOPIA-TRAIN initiative was awarded funding under the Horizon 2020 call Support for the Research and Innovation Dimension of European Universities (SwafS).

EUTOPIA-TRAIN sponsors academic innovation with societal impact: it ambitions to integrate pan-EUTOPIA research and innovation communities and structures and open them to society, business, students, and policymakers. The project intends to link the research communities of EUTOPIA with the local and international needs of multiple stakeholders at the three levels of the formulation of research agendas, of their execution, and the dissemination of results.

EUTOPIA-TRAIN gives today a clear frame to the goal set by the EUTOPIA universities to mutualize resources and tools and to define a shared Research & Innovation Policy. Objectives are to boost the research capacity of the six universities of the Alliance, in both human and technical resources, and contribute to the development of the EU R&I performance. The idea is to generate a cross-institutional strategy based on joint governance and common management structures. Among other actions, the project includes an Open Access metadata portal; a common Human Resources strategy and roadmap, and the creation of a EUTOPIA grants, legal, and innovation office.