Project description
Innovative ways to tackle EPIChallenges
The European University alliance EPICUR will shape European society in transition by developing collaborative inter- and transdisciplinary teaching and learning formats. The EU-funded EPICUR-Research project expands the alliance’s areas of interest to research, innovation and interaction with society. It develops a joint research agenda to address pressing research issues such as sustainability, mobility, migration, identity, and transition of the public health system – collectively called EPIChallenges. The project mainly addresses early-career researchers and invites them to co-create the new online EPICommunity that will offer tools to increase the visibility of scientific achievements. The project encourages them to establish and join interdisciplinary thematic EPIClusters that aim to address the EPIChallenges with partners outside academia, ensuring a transdisciplinary outlook to research activities.
Objective
EPICUR, the European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions, is a first-generation European University Alliance, dedicated to shaping European Society in Transition through the development of collaborative inter- and transdisciplinary teaching and learning. Now that the alliance seeks funding to establish its complementary research agenda, EPICUR expands its breadth to include research, innovation and interaction with society, and will be addressing all four corners of the European knowledge square. EPICUR is convinced that future EPICUR research can make a difference in the following ways:
As our alliance believes that international collaboration fosters scientific and societal progress, EPICUR will develop a joint research agenda and deploy an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to tackle pressing research questions, which we call EPIChallenges (WP1).
EPICUR identified early career researchers as the primary target group to experiment with new formats for virtual networking and shaping their academic careers. They will be invited to co-create the EPICommunity, a new social media network based on an attractive gamification design. This network offers new tools that will help raise the visibility of scientific achievements and skill sets, as well as facilitating blended mobility (WP2).
EPICUR researchers will be encouraged to team-up in EPIClusters, experimental open research formats to tackle EPIChallenges together with partners from sectors outside academia and to pilot the sharing of the consortium's cutting-edge research infrastructures (WP3).
As proud member of the first cohort of European Universities alliances, EPICUR will build intelligent connections to our peer alliances in EPIConnect, to facilitate the preparation of joint policy recommendations for shaping the Universities of the Future.
As a result, EPICUR will contribute to the further shaping the European Universities - be EPIcurious!
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.5. - SCIENCE WITH AND FOR SOCIETY Main Programme
Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany