EUTOPIA_HEALTH
Background and Needs Addressed
Challenges in Health require integrating knowledge and communication between specialists from different health-related fields to develop effective solutions.
The EUTOPIA HEALTH initiative, starting in January 2024, aims to create a novel and innovative framework for the integrative academic management of health-related scientific areas, facilitating changes in the academic landscape within the European research area through a comprehensive institutional transformation.
The project targets mainly three Widening countries (Romania, Slovenia, Portugal) of the EUTOPIA Alliance, which traditionally lagged in health-related domains, striving to overcome funding and publication disparities and spearheading academic excellence and innovation in these critical domains.
Objectives
The project aims to empower institutional transformation by strengthening health-related R&I management capacity and upgrading and adapting R&I management strategies and policies within the Widening HEIs of the project consortium in line with the principles of the European research assessment reform.
A health-focused R&I network will be established through Connected Health Research Communities that will receive inter/transdisciplinary training, research mobilities for early-career researchers and seed funding for research collaborations, all centred around health-related challenges.
Planned Outcomes
By employing integrative, transdisciplinary approaches and implementing flexible academic career pathways in Health, the project focuses on creating a Health innovation ecosystem bridging the Health research communities to society, business partners, and policymakers by mainstreaming Open/Citizen/Inclusive/Collaborative Science practices and translating research into tailored social innovation supported solutions.
The EUTOPIA_HEALTH project, through its comprehensive activities, will positively impact the R&I achievements, research excellence, international visibility, and funding absorption rate of the Widening consortium HEIs and the entire EUTOPIA Alliance.
- Call: HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-03
- Type of Action: HORIZON-CSA (Coordination and Support Actions)
- Starting of the project: 1 January 2024
- Duration: 60 months
- Budget: 4,999,960 EUR
- Partners:
- Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium)
- Ca'Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
- CY Cergy Paris Université (France)
- University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
- University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)
- Pompeu Fabra University-Barcelona (Spain)
- Associate Partner:
- The University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
- Coordinator: Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
