Description du projet
De nouveaux horizons d’innovation pour la région de Belfast
Le «Belfast Region City Deal» a été conclu entre le gouvernement central et les parties prenantes afin d’optimiser les investissements, de créer des emplois et d’accélérer la croissance économique inclusive. Il offre également la possibilité de faire le lien entre ces travaux et de nouvelles innovations dans le domaine de la recherche appliquée, afin de permettre à la région d’être plus compétitive en matière d’économie de la connaissance fondée sur les données. Le projet CITI-GENS, financé par l’UE et hébergé par la Queen’s University de Belfast (QUB), va recruter et former 20 chercheurs internationaux afin de relever les défis mondiaux en ligne avec les thèmes définis dans le cadre de l’écosystème d’innovation du City Deal. Ceux-ci englobent les technologies de l’information, la fabrication avancée, les sciences de la vie et les industries créatives. Les chercheurs sélectionnés entreprendront des projets interdisciplinaires, intersectoriels et d’intérêt international, dont les résultats seront diffusés et communiqués par la QUB et via d’autres canaux.
Objectif
The Collaboration in Training and Innovation for Growing, Evolving and Networked Societies (CITI-GENS) Doctoral Programme at Queens University Belfast (QUB) will recruit and train 20 outstanding international researchers over a 60-month period. During this time, they will be transformed into a professional and skilled cohort addressing global challenges aligned to the themes of the Belfast Region City Deal innovation ecosystem: Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, Life Sciences and the Creative Industries. In seeking to address societal challenges in new ways and with new technologies, the CITI-GENS ESRs will engage with methodologies at the forefront of current practice in innovation, notably design thinking. Adopting the 3i approach, ESRs chosen for CITI-GENS will combine their advanced disciplinary excellence with capacity for genuinely interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international quality research involving the capacities of QUB and 25 non-HEI partners. The CITI-GENS programme has been developed on the basis that future societal challenges will emerge across rather than within economic and social sectors, requiring new technologies that are emerging or not yet developed, and which outpace developments in social structures and conventions. This is the key value of CITI-GENS: it demands that successful applicants are characterised by openness to innovation, pioneer thinking and creativity. These qualities will be nourished by means of a personalised training package for each ESR and through a range of cohort leadership and development opportunities within our award-winning Graduate School. CITI-GENS research findings will be disseminated and communicated to different stakeholders though a wide variety of channels. The proposed CITI-GENS DP will be managed through a bespoke coordination and oversight system in a University with an established reputation for its cross-disciplinary doctoral training and knowledge transfer activities.
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(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019
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