ACEEU led the development of the Sustainability and Valorisation Strategy, including the Exploitation Paths and Business Models for the BETTER Life project. The activity focused on ensuring the BETTER Life project results and the Digital Centre of Excellence (DCoE), continue to remain useful and impactful beyond the funding period.
Working closely with the consortium partners, ACEEU coordinated the mapping of key results with the greatest exploitation potential, the design of pathways to carry these results forward, and the creation of business models that can translate them into operational and financial options capable of attracting investment and institutional support.
Among the proposed pathways are the expansion of the DCoE into a multilingual knowledge platform for training, networking, and policy dialogue, and the development of consultancy and advisory services to help universities and research institutions integrate the Socially Engaged Research (SER) Framework into their research agendas.
The strategy also outlines activities to sustain collaboration among BETTER Life partners beyond the funding period, including bi-monthly consortium meetings, joint funding applications, co-publications, and mutual support in dissemination efforts.
Beyond positioning BETTER Life as a model of how a collaborative project can evolve into long-term, sustainable ecosystems of learning and innovation, the strategy provides a transferable framework that other initiatives and EU-funded projects can adapt to sustain their results within diverse institutional, disciplinary, and regional contexts.
