EXCELlent Science with Impact, Open and Reliable

Project Information

EXCELScIOR

Grant agreement ID: 101087416

DOI

10.3030/101087416

EC signature date 14 November 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 29 February 2028

Funded under

• Widening participation and spreading excellence

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Portugal

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EXCELScIOR (EXCELlent Science with Impact, Open and Reliable)

Reporting period: 2023-03-01 to 2024-05-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

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.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

N/a

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

N/a

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