ACEEU is proud to announce that it has received approval for another project financed by the European Commission. ‘BETTER Life’ project has been selected as a part of HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-05-01: ‘Capacity building to strengthen networks of higher education institutions and cooperation with surrounding ecosystems’. The funding initiative launched by the European Commission aims to support capacity building for networks of higher education institutions and their partners in the local ecosystem, to foster cooperation and integration.
The general objective of the project “Bringing Excellence to Transformative Engaged Research in Life Sciences through Integrated Digital Centres” — short BETTER Life — is to establish the EU Digital Centre of Excellence for Socially Engaged Research in Life Sciences (EU BETTER Life Centre). The Centre will be an inter-institutional support structure for developing capacities of early career researchers aiming to foster socially engaged research to tackle societal challenges in their surrounding ecosystems.
ACEEU is committed to promoting university engagement with the community and EU BETTER Life Centre addresses the issue of research engagement and collaboration as a key element to generate wide impact in the surrounding ecosystems and diverse stakeholders. The ACEEU standards used in our Engaged University Accreditation will feed into the development of the project, supporting the creation of Socially Engaged Research standards.
At ACEEU, we are particularly proud of this achievement since the project proposal was written independently by the ACEEU team! We are excited to be working alongside several new partners, including many HEIs, to promote engaged research in the life sciences, and foster university-society collaboration across Europe and beyond.
Thank you to all project partners:
Czech University of Life Sciences (Czechia)
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
University of Camerino (Italy)
Accreditation Council for Engaged and Entrepreneurial Universities (Germany)
Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia)
Daugavpils Universitate (Latvia)
Poznan University of Life Sciences (Poland)
Helixconnect (Romania)
Educons University (Serbia)