About aUPaEU
A University Partnership for Acceleration of European Universities
Following the Greek concept of the Agora, the project seeks to build a shared space, a platform where all stakeholders can give and consume acceleration services and, at the same time, contribute their knowledge and expertise.
By developing a digital platform, Agora , aUPaEU provides tangible acceleration services towards HEIs transformation.
aUPaEU’s mission is to
provide digital services to accelerate the transformation of Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs). The project’s focus is the integration and
implementation of acceleration services for the institutional transformation of
Higher Education Institutions.
aUPaEU's ultimate purpose is to develop methodologies, sustainability plans, coaching services, and tangible digital technologies to give an acceleration agora. HEIs, university networks, and alliances will achieve integrated, shared, and long-term R&I transformations through this accelerated Agora. These transformations are intended to focus on six major areas of the HEI transformation agenda: capacity, infrastructure, and resource sharing; researcher career attractiveness; collaboration with R&I ecosystem actors; open science; societal outreach; and gender equality.
A University Partnership for Acceleration of European Universities has received 3.4 million funding from the European Commission in the framework of the European Research Area call (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01)for the integration and implementation of acceleration services. The project started in January 2023 and will end in December 2027.
The aUPaEU project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No 101095314 .
Partners
The aUPaEU project is a collaboration of partners from the Unite! and EPICUR Alliances.
Five Universities are involved in the project: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , also including IThinkUPC , Grenoble INP - UGA ,
Politecnico di Torino, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT).
Meet our Team
Jesus Alcober
Full Professor at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Project Coordinator
Farnaz Haji Mohammadali
Doctoral student at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Project Manager
Sofia Beatrice Vercellone
Research Assistant at Politecnico di Torino
Communication and Dissemination
Michael Anger
Academic Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Open science and transfer Lead
Lauren Ciancio
Academic Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Open science and transfer
Michael Zacherle
Senior Research Manager at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
EPICUR Key Liaison Officer
Claudia Kramer
Head of Research Data Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Library
Open science and transfer Lead
Jacek Marciniak
Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University
System sustainability Lead
Krzysztof Dyczkowski
Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University
Digital support Lead
Patryk Żywica
Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University
System
sustainability analysis
Andrzej Wójtowicz
Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University
Digital support analysis
Pierre-Nicolas Timsit
Doctoral student at Grenoble INP – UGA
Analysis and methodology
Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers
Associate Professor at Grenoble INP – UGA
Analysis and methodology
Juan Lopez
Assistant Professor at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Software Development Lead
Alba Roma Gomez
Master's student at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Software Development
Sister Projects
Accelerate Future HEI
and
CATALISI
projects both received funding through the same call as
aUPaEU
. Since we both want to hasten the institutional reform of higher education institutions across Europe, they are sister projects.
About the project
Led by University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN), Accelerate Future HEI project brings together twelve European partners to develop and implement acceleration services. Partners are embarking on a journey to collaboratively gain an understanding of the higher education status quo and desired future state, develop a roadmap and subsequently implement and support programs of change for HEIs through expert coaching, training and peer learning in a network that will sustain far beyond the scope of the project.
As part of the project, the “Acceleration partners” will work together with two existing HEI consortia as part of the European University Alliance and EIT HEI Innovation Capacity Building initiatives to design the methodology for acceleration services, which the HEI partners will test through developing and implementing institutional transformation projects. Not only will the project directly benefit the acceleration of the involved HEIs, but it will also further provide key learnings and policy recommendations to support the acceleration of entrepreneurial and innovative HEIs across Europe.
Accelerate Future HEI is funded under the Horizon Europe programme, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation. The Horizon Europe programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. Moreover, it supports the creation and better diffusion of excellent knowledge and technologies.
Media Contact
Important Links
Acceleratefuturehei.eu
Linkedin.com/company/accelerate-future-hei
Twitter.com/AccFutureHEI
About the project
CATALISI is an EU-funded project that started in January 2023. With the aim to help and support Higher Education Institutions to successfully implement a strategy and individual pathway for institutional transformation, CATALISI will introduce the adoption of acceleration services. The project will analyse how the governance of Higher Education Institutions can be changed, considering the governance as a way in which societal and state actors intentionally interact in order to transform Science Technology and Innovation systems, by regulating issues of societal concern.
In the 36 months of the project, 11 partners from 8 EU Member States will implement the project dividing its efforts between implementors and facilitators.
CATALISI will offer 7 acceleration services and tackle 3 domains:
- Research careers and talent support
- Open science and public engagement
- Sustainable research and education
Project Coordinator
Maria Carmela Fiero and Laura Mentini: fierro@apre.it ; mentini@apre.it
Important Links
Catalisi.eu
Linkedin.com/company/catalisi-project
Twitter.com/catalisiproject
YouTube.com/channel/UCAYiQwhSMDmOldoQD0lDsjA