Description du projet
Une nouvelle chaire de l’EER pour améliorer l’efficacité de la science
L’innovation est une priorité absolue, et l’excellence scientifique en est le moteur. L’excellence scientifique exige toutefois de disposer d’excellentes infrastructures de recherche guidées par une politique en matière de science ouverte, prévoyant notamment un accès libre aux données et aux publications. Le projet EXCELScIOR, financé par l’UE, développera, élargira et libérera pleinement le potentiel de recherche de l’université de Coimbra (Portugal) grâce à la création d’une nouvelle chaire de l’EER interdisciplinaire consacrée au domaine de la métarecherche (recherche sur la recherche). Son objectif est de favoriser la reproductibilité et l’interdisciplinarité, rendant ainsi la science plus efficace grâce à une meilleure utilisation des données de recherche. Le titulaire de la chaire de l’EER (le professeur John Ioannidis de l’université de Stanford) s’intéressera tout particulièrement aux sciences biomédicales.
Objectif
EXCELScIOR will develop, extend and fully unlock the research potential of the University of Coimbra (UC, Portugal) through the implementation of a new interdisciplinary ERA Chair devoted to Meta-research (i.e. “research on research”, or Meta-science). Meta-research fosters reproducibility and interdisciplinarity, making science more efficient through better use of research data, more reliable through better verification and ultimately more transparent (open) and responsive to societal challenges and needs. EXCELScIOR strategic goal is thus to improve UC’s research methods and practices, and enhance approaches to integrate information, generate reliable evidence and maximize its impact, in order to increase the scientific production, quality and organizational praxis of Research & Innovation at UC towards EU/ERA excellence. Biomedical Sciences will be the ERA Chair’s primary target during the project’s execution, but the intrinsic nature of meta-research is seemingly apposite and will then continue to revolutionize and advance multiple other research areas, within UC and beyond.
The named ERA Chair holder _ Professor John Ioannidis from the University of Stanford _ is considered a pioneer in meta-research, being one of the ten most-cited scientists globally across all sciences. His work in the field attained worldwide recognition and has transformed research in biomedicine and multiple other scientific areas. Under his leadership, this ERA Chair will strive and, in the long term, evolve into a new research to action center _ the Meta-Research Innovation Center - Coimbra (METRIC C) _ bound to operate in tandem with the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) and its sister in Berlin (METRIC-B), both of which co-founded and (co-)directed by Professor Ioannidis.
Mots‑clés
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinateur
3004-531 Coimbra
Portugal