Aurora call for resarch collaboration: application opened until April 30

Scientific collabration at the Aurora level

Following the launch of Aurora 2030, the second phase of the European University Alliance project, Aurora is consolidating scientific and academic relationships between its member institutions, establishing and promoting an Aurora community of research and innovation.

UPEC plays a leading role, coordinating several working groups, notably TT5.2 "Academic Collaboration and Community Building", which is committed to developing a genuine community of Aurora researchers by fostering shared values and common practices in an environment conducive to excellence.

Building on the advances made during the first phase of Aurora and as part of Work Package 5, the alliance offers researchers various types of support:

• a call for incentive research projects
• thematic summer schools
• mobility opportunities 

"In the first phase, the Aurora universities succeeded in drawing up an inventory of research infrastructures that they are willing to share for joint research. With today's call for collaboration, we want to take a major step forward in bringing together researchers from the various universities belonging to the Aurora alliance, and thus create a real research community within Aurora. That's why we want three Aurora partners to be involved in every incentive research project and summer school. In addition, mobility opportunities require that both the host laboratory and the trainee come from Aurora universities."

Matthias Beekmann, Director of Observatoire des sciences de l'univers at UPEC and task-team 5.2 on Academic Collaboration and Community Building

 

This call is open to applications from all scientific fields (science and engineering, health, human and social sciences, etc.). Projects can be disciplinary or multidisciplinary in nature.
Subjects related to Aurora 2030's five educational clusters are also welcome:

• Sustainability and climate change
• Digital society and global citizenship
• Health and well-being
• Culture: diversity and identity
• Social entrepreneurship.

The deadline for application is April 30, 2024
Find out more about applicaioin requirements