RIS4CIVIS: Stratégie de recherche et d'innovation pour CIVIS

Strengthening CIVIS in research and innovation

The project “RIS4CIVIS” supports the Research and Innovation dimension of CIVIS, in line with its shared, integrated, long-term strategy and in synergy with its education dimension. The 3-year project was awarded a 2 million euros budget by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 "Science with and for Society" programme. 

RIS4CIVIS aims to enable the CIVIS Alliance and other European universities to pave the way and pool out their expertise to address the 21st-century challenges through world-class R&I.

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Developing a research and innovation strategy for CIVIS

Through the project RIS4CIVIS, the member universities of the CIVIS Alliance are creating a bold vision for the research aspects of our cooperation. By assessing our strengths, finding shared priorities for development and improvement, and testing innovative measures, we are developing a roadmap for the future of research and innovation in CIVIS. This will guide our own strategy and also serve as an inspiration to other alliances and policymakers.

6 transformational modules

RIS4CIVIS integrates the following dimensions as key conditions for successful cooperation between modern, forward-looking Universities.

Module 1: Developing a Common Research and Innovation Strategy

What topics must our strategy address, and how can we work on them together?

Module 2: Sharing infrastructures

Is it possible to facilitate access to research infrastructure across our Alliance, offering researchers new opportunities and increasing the impact of our work?

Module 3: Reinforcing Academia-Business R&I Cooperation

Cooperation with regional ecosystems is a vital link in the innovation chain. How can it be strengthened by European university alliances like CIVIS?

Module 4: Strengthening Human Capital

Which ambitious common standards on working conditions and career development can help CIVIS attract and retain the best research talent?

Module 5: Mainstreaming of Open Science

How can CIVIS take Open Science from vision to practice with a common approach and support for the implementation of this new paradigm in research?

Module 6: Embedding Citizens and Society

Engagement with citizens and civil society is at the heart of CIVIS, so what will this mean in the research domain?

3 stages over 3 years (January 2021-December 2023)

1. Benchmarking
   Establishing an inventory of current practices and resources while identifying the barriers we face in enhancing cooperation on R&I.
2. Consensus-building
   Mapping the ways we might work together on R&I and selecting our shared priorities.
3. Validation through case studies
   Putting our ideas into practice to test and evaluate vital aspects of the proposed strategy.

1 INSPIRING OUTPUT:

CIVIS R&I Strategy and Institutional Transformational Model to be shared with other European Universitie

Resources & reports

• RIS4CIVIS brochure
• RIS4CIVIS infographic
• RIS4CIVIS mission statement
• WP1 Benchmarking Report
• WP2 Consensus-building Report
• WP2 Preliminary Roadmap
• WP3 Validation through Case Studies Report
• WP4 Training Platforms and Information sharing databases
• WP4 Preliminary Policy Report
• WP5 RIS4CIVIS Communication and Dissemination Strategy
• WP5 RIS4CIVIS CIVIS Dissemination and Exploitation Conference Report 
• WP5 Forum of European Universities (FOREU) Conference Report
• Briefing note: Module 1 - Developing a Common Research and Innovation Strategy
• Briefing note: Module 2 - Sharing research infrastructures
• Briefing note: Module 3 - Academia-business R&I cooperation
• Briefing note: Module 4 - Building common standards for HR policies
• Briefing note: Module 5 - Mainstreaming of open science

• Briefing note: Module 6 - Embedding Citizens and Society

Co-funded under Horizon2020

The RIS4CIVIS project is co-financed by the European Commission under the Horizon2020 ‘Science with and for Society’ (SWAFS) programme and the CIVIS member universities.

This flagship European programme aims at fostering the cooperation between Science and Society supporting extensive actions in Research and Innovation to tackle European societal challenges. 

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101016691