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Training Doctoral Excellence for Resilient and Just Future

Project description

Designing new sustainable solutions

Increasing climate change worldwide has already resulted in major signs of environmental and economic upheaval, including biodiversity loss and emerging infectious diseases, as well as rapidly changing food and water systems. To understand, address and mitigate both climate change and its consequences, it is key to have educated experts contribute to related research and solutions. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the RESDOC project will create and operate a training programme combining natural, life and social sciences to educate experts and equip them with the tools and resources needed to discover novel, sustainable and resilient solutions. To achieve this, the project will address varied and interdisciplinary topics and provide access to high-quality facilities, technologies and expert researchers.

Objective

RESDOC is a unique training programme bridging life, natural and social sciences to educate experts for sustainable, resilient and just solutions. RESDOC addresses multidimensional and intertwined topics: climate change, biodiversity loss, emerging infectious diseases, increasing antibiotic resistance, and changing food and water systems. These complex challenges need holistic research-based knowledge to guide sustainable solutions, fair and equitable adaptation. The RESDOC programme takes an integrated approach, where training in research skills is interconnected with learning skills that are transferable to non-research settings. The programme connects topical research projects undertaken by doctoral candidates with a multidimensional understanding of systemic thinking and resilience, complemented with knowledge on how AI can be used effectively and ethically and how to create research-based innovations. Moreover, diversity perspectives in research are recurrent themes in training. RESDOC is anchored in the University of Helsinki’s largest research profiling area to date, Resilient and Just Systems (RESET), ensuring access to the most stimulating research environment, interdisciplinary research options, top-level supervision, high-quality facilities, and extensive networks. The programme provides a multi-level approach to researcher training, where scientific excellence meets strengthened researcher and business skills, as well impactful social responsibility. RESDOC supplies society with a new generation of creative and critical researchers capable of responsible research and innovation and will improve Europe's level of expertise and competitiveness in solving major global health and sustainability challenges. RESDOC consolidates the interdisciplinary aspect and alignment of doctoral training with the University’s strategic research profiling areas. Together with our domestic and international partners, we aim to train 30 future experts in the RESDOC Programme.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-Cofund-D - HORIZON TMA MSCA Cofund Doctoral programme

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-01

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Coordinator

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Net EU contribution
€ 4 752 000,00
Address
FABIANINKATU 33
00014 Helsinki
Finland
Region
Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Partners (24)