Project description
A collaborative platform changing the academic ecosystem
Traditional publishers and their centralised processes remain the most prevalent way to certify and disseminate academic knowledge. To try and provide alternatives to an ambiguous and inefficient process, new digital platforms have emerged. They, however, have been met with resistance as most of them use "platform economy" service models that entail centralised governance and unfair use of power, among other issues. To address this, the EU-funded UNIFIED SCIENCE project is assessing the feasibility of introducing a platform based on a mutual credit system and powered by distributed ledger technology, which will facilitate the exchange of scientific knowledge in the academic and research world. The project is also investigating how a decentralised personal data management system could be implemented.
Objective
The EU has made multi-billion Euro investments to increase its innovation potential by subsidising the collaboration between academics and industry but the R&D expenditure per GDP is still as low as 2.1%, far behind the US and Asia, as well as below the EUs long standing target of 3%. Compared to the US, the EUs academics in all fields show 25% less collaborations and collaborations with industry are only 50% of the US indexing. Without a doubt, academics are highly interested in collaborating since this directly correlates to their scientific impact. The main obstacle today is the lack of IT solutions to efficiently connect academics. Current platforms such as ResearchGate, LinkedIn and others have failed to address major customer needs such as secure external collaborations, privacy and relevant engagement. Social networks are advertisement driven and scientific discussions only account for less than 8% of all engagement while professional collaborations that lead to new research are practically non-existent. Our solution is UNIFIED SCIENCE, an academic social network creator that provides a stand-alone, decentralised and secure social network to universities or R&D institutions and significantly improves their collaboration capacity. The network is deployed with a web & mobile App, incorporating unique features such as decentralised technology for privacy, DeepLinks for secure collaborations, MePass for dynamic user permissions and API widgets for access to online publishing platforms. UNIFIED SCIENCEs prototype has already been tested in 11 pilot studies, attracted 11 paying customers and 15+ interested customers. After completion of the Phase 1 & 2 developments, UNIFIED SCIENCE will enter the €160bn IT segment of the global R&D market. Through our extensive industry contacts and academic affiliations, we will deploy UNIFIED SCIENCE globally, starting in the EU, with expected accumulated profits of €9.3m 6 new jobs and an ROI of 9.3 within 3 years.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security cryptography
- social sciences economics and business business and management business models
- social sciences sociology governance taxation
- humanities other humanities library sciences public libraries
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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02150 ESPOO
Finland
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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