The RUN-EU PLUS project successfully developed an integrated long-term strategy for research and innovation collaboration across the RUN European University. RUN-EU PLUS defined a roadmap and accreditation action plan for the development of collaborative professional practice-based research masters and PhD programmes. These programmes are accredited, scalable, interdisciplinary, and focused on Business and Society. Sustainability, Digitalisation and Social Innovation. RUN-EU PLUS has developed more than 60 collaboratively supervised PhD programmes, a PhD in Digitalisation Engineering which leads to a joint PhD award, Collaborative PhD programmes in the areas of Tourism, Social Sciences, Biotechnology, Polymers and Entrepreneurship and Innovation which involve programme teams across the alliance, co-creation with regional partners, are practice based and involve the mobility of researchers to a RUN-EU partner country.
The project has created an Innovation Showcase of technology and service offerings for promotion to our RUN-EU regions and beyond.
RUN-EU PLUS has developed a Researcher Career Development Training Programme designed to provide researchers with research and transferrable skills required for successful research careers. This Career Development Programme is supported by the Cloud of Knowledge Portal and the Researcher Career Evaluation System, both support tools developed by the project. The creation of a Cloud of Knowledge Portal allows RUN-EU researchers to collectively share expertise, data and resources to support their pedagogical and research skills development. The RUN-EU PLUS Researcher Career Evaluation System for RUN-EU researchers is a practical tool, available to all researchers, which they can use to undertake their own research skills self-assessment and apply their findings to develop a personal training plan which will support their training needs in accordance with their chosen career path.
The project has hosted 3 online Annual International Conferences on Applied Research with Business and Society (ICARUS) with over 600 delegates attending. The annual ICARUS conference engages research students, scholars, researchers, and business and society stakeholders in discussions concerning the development of practice-based research degree programmes, open science practice and researcher career development across the RUN-EU network.
Networks of R&I Ambassadors, Open Science Ambassadors and Gender & Diversity Ambassadors have been established to promote diversity and inclusion, advance open science and promote a more diverse inclusive research community, leading to better research outcomes and greater societal outcomes.
The project has laid a strong foundation for future research and innovation by developing an integrated long-term strategy tailored to the regions. Exploitation of results will focus on integrating the strategy tools and training programmes developed into future initiatives to support researcher development. Co-operation in R&I with regional organisations will be maintained and further developed in RUN-EU Cycle 2.
