The ECIU member universities have launched a Seed Programme to enhance collaboration and innovation among their partners, including travel grants and challenge-based research initiatives.
As a third tool, to build up research collaboration across all the member universities, the ECIU offers travel grants up to 5.000 EUR per stay at an ECIU partner. For more details on the ECIU Researcher Mobility Fund please see: ECIU Researcher Mobility Fund.
ECIU University understands the following when referring to challenge-based research (CBR – see our paper: Challenge-based Research for a Stronger and More Sustainable Europe):
Challenge-based research (CBR) is research undertaken with partners from business, education, government, civil society and citizens, using the challenges they face in reality as a point of departure, to arrive at implementable solutions to these challenges. Challenge-Based Research is strongly related to the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), which implies that the different stakeholders (research staff, citizens, companies, etc.) work together throughout the research and innovation process, to better align the results with the values and needs of society.
The following nine ECIU member universities have made funding available for their researchers to get involved in Seed Programme 1 and Seed Programme 2.
Agnieszka Dybała-Defratyka
Director of Science Support Center