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Staff Mobility to Action Resilient, Restorative, and Regenerative Transitions & Societies

Project description

Staff exchange programme to foster societal resilience and sustainability

The wide-reaching consequences of climate change know no borders. Therefore, global cooperation is essential to mitigate threats against society, such as food insecurity, increased health risks, community displacement and damage to essential infrastructure. With support from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SMAR3TS project will establish an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral staff exchange programme for research and innovation, focused on improving sociotechnical transitions for resilient societies with inclusive and sustainable growth. The programme fosters knowledge-sharing, capacity building and training among academia, industry, government and civil society. Among others, beneficiary and associate partners will work together to co-create tangible solutions for issues that jeopardise global stability and prosperity.

Objective

The SMAR3TS project arises as a response to climate change and environmental degradation. It orchestrates an ambitious international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral staff exchange program for research and innovation, aimed at accelerating sociotechnical transitions for inclusive and sustainable growth. It actively tackles grand societal challenges that endanger global stability and prosperity, and adversely impact fundamental human needs such as food, mobility, energy, and housing. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, loss of biodiversity, and disruptions to ecosystems all have far-reaching consequences that transcend borders and require collaboration to develop timely and innovative solutions. SMAR3TS builds a Powerhouse Consortium with amplified network effect by uniting cross-disciplinary expertise of researchers and practitioners from 23 beneficiary partners, and 13 Associate/Third Country Partners working on research excellence through secondments, conferences, workshops, summer schools, knowledge-sharing platforms and activities to transform research outputs into tangible outcomes. United in diversity, SMAR3TS network spearheads innovations across various sectors to support resilient, restorative, and regenerative futures. By leveraging Open innovation strategies, SMAR3TS facilitates knowledge exchange, capacity building, and the co-creation of actionable solutions. By enabling a Quadruple-Helix approach (i.e. university-industry-government-civil society collaboration) and offering advanced training opportunities on research translation, futures thinking, foresight and other necessary tools and techniques, it equips researchers with key skills to design pathways for societal impact. Overall, SMAR3TS pursues a proactive strategy to build a fair, inclusive and regenerating world by collectively advancing science, technology, and innovation, triggering behavioural, organization and policy changes.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE - HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01

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Coordinator

ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SPAIN SL
Net EU contribution
€ 210 420,00
Address
CALLE MALDONADO 28
28006 Madrid
Spain
Region
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Participants (21)

Partners (12)