Project description
Advancing sustainable development research in Estonia
Modern societies aim to develop in ways that meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. Achieving sustainable development relies heavily on the work of researchers. The EU-funded SustainERA project will establish an interdisciplinary research group focused on sustainable futures at Tallinn University (TLU) in Estonia. It will also create an Open Lab to encourage collaboration between various TLU schools and external partners, strengthening research and policy development in sustainability and non-growth. The initiative will recruit new researchers, including an ERA Chair Holder and doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to enhance TLU’s research capacity. Over the next five years the project will position TLU as a leading centre for sustainability and non-growth research, focusing on interdisciplinary social science approaches.
Objective
The main goal of the ERA Chair in Sustainable Futures (SustainERA) is to establish a new high-level interdisciplinary research group in the field of Sustainable Futures at Tallinn University (TLU), Estonia. The ERA Chair project has two main goals: 1) to establish an Open Lab in Sustainable Futures research that will facilitate collaboration between different Schools of TLU as well as with various external private and public partners in order to enhance interdisciplinary research and policy development in the field; 2) to build interdisciplinary research excellence, capacity and capability of TLU in the fields of sustainability and non-growth by bringing in new researchers including the ERA Chair Holder and doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. The ERA Chair project will achieve its goals by implementing a five-year Research Strategy comprising five ambitious objectives, which are focused on strengthening TLUs position as an important research centre in the field of sustainability and non-growth research both locally and internationally. The main approach is achieved through interdisciplinary social science research for non-growth. The Open Lab and toolbox is established for public stakeholder engagement to develop educational interventions for sustainability and the research based recommendations for policymakers, organisations and businesses on how to work towards sustainable futures. Numerous training and workshop events will be organised to increase the level of research management and dissemination skills. Impacts of SustainERA are increase in number of R&I talents moving to TLU; increased participation of Estonia and TLU in EU R&D funding programmes; increased awareness of sustainable and nongrowth approaches; increased international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility of researchers and innovators for nongrowth research; more entrepreneurial and better trained researchers and innovators; the reforms in nongrowth capacity building in TLU.
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Call for proposal
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
10120 Tallinn
Estonia