Project description
Research excellence in biological magnets in Latvia
Latvia considers research excellence a key objective for its higher education and research system. The EU-funded BioMagnetLink project will explore biological magnets to advance multidisciplinary research, drawing on the ERA Chair’s proven expertise in publications, talent development and international project coordination. At the University of Latvia, the ERA Chair team will focus on pioneering research on microswimmers and magnetotactic bacteria to drive advancements in personalised medicine. The team will also provide tailored recommendations for attracting talent, executing projects and enhancing doctoral education, ensuring seamless integration within the local research environment. To maximise impact, the ERA Chair will establish a training group for local principal investigators, helping them strengthen their leadership and writing skills.
Objective
Latvia, one of the widening countries, has defined research excellence as an important aim for its higher education and research system. In the BioMagnetLink project, we will focus on biological magnets as a unifying link to multidisciplinary research excellence building upon the expertise of the ERA Chair. The ERA Chair has indeed an already proven track-record of high-level publications, an ability to attract, train and lead talents, to foster the mobility of researchers and the interdisciplinarity of research, and finally to coordinate international projects in the most ambitious research level. Forming the ERA Chair team at the University of Latvia to tackle a groundbreaking research related to microswimmer and magnetotactic bacteria to progress towards future personnalized medicine approaches.
In addition, building on its experience, the ERA Chair will formulate precise and detailed recommendations on talent attraction, project preparation and execution, result dissemination, doctoral education and others, adapted to the institutional and national research environment, making them easy to implement. The support and interest from the university senior management will allow to materialize changes for the whole university. This will be of a great value due to multiple reforms currently taking place for the higher education level at the University of Latvia itself, but also more generally in Latvia.
To maximize the impact on the institutional environment, the ERA Chair will form a training group for local principal investigators, to help developing their leadership and writing skills. The positive effects on the largest research university in Latvia at the research, the training, and the structural level as shown by leading by example will promote systemic changes for the benefit of the whole country, thereby progressing towards closing the still existing gap towards other European countries.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01
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1586 RIGA
Latvia
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