Project description
New innovation horizons for Belfast Region
The Belfast Region City Deal was agreed between central government and local stakeholders to harness investment, create jobs and accelerate inclusive economic growth. It also provides an opportunity to connect this work to new innovations in applied research, and to enable the region to better compete in the data-driven knowledge economy. The EU-funded CITI-GENS project at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) will recruit and train 20 international researchers to address global challenges aligned with the themes of the City Deal’s innovation ecosystem. These encompass information technology, advanced manufacturing, life sciences and creative industries. The selected researchers will undertake projects that are interdisciplinary, intersectoral of international relevance, with findings disseminated and communicated through QUB and other channels.
Objective
The Collaboration in Training and Innovation for Growing, Evolving and Networked Societies (CITI-GENS) Doctoral Programme at Queen’s 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.
Keywords
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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.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.4. - Increasing structural impact by co-funding activities
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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MSCA-COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019
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