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Procedure to leverage joint research activities
Through top level education and research, EU GREEN, the European University for Sustainability, aims at addressing sustainability from the periphery and for the periphery. EU GREEN partners aim to place societal responsibility at the heart of their mission, as a guiding principle that defines the way we teach and the focus of our research.
EU GREEN has established a yearly joint procedure for proposals to stimulate collaboration among our 9 universities.
After the first two editions focused on the structuring of research clusters, the decision was taken for this third edition of the call to open up more widely, not just to the scientific scope of clusters but to all the research themes of our nine universities.
Any academic staffs from EU GREEN partner universities can submit proposals for joint research activities aiming a short-, medium- or long-term impact on the quality offer of our institutions. This procedure, implemented by the Work Package 3, is intended to leverage cooperation between our academic communities and create new or consolidate existing scientific relationships enhancing the quality of our education. Its vision is to build robust communities and strong research-based learning among the EU GREEN universities.
The present call is inclusive of all research disciplines and topics, but the topic of the proposals should be linked with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The proposals should clearly explain those links.
Please find here:
The online form for application
The 2025 Bill of Specification
Please note that some documents (available below) have to be filled in order to complete the application.
- The template for the financial form Click here
- The template for the list of participants Click here
- The application form - conference Click here
- The application form- incentive to leverage joint research activities Click here
- The application form - Researcher mobiliy program Click here
Incentive for collaborative research projects
This action should support concrete exploratory collaborative activities by research teams with single or multiple disciplines that put forward the complementarity of competences and approaches to develop or reinforce collaboration. Those activities could facilitate travel and networking, information sharing, gaining access to data, preparing a larger publication on research outcomes, lead to the application to larger projects or to the creation of new sub-group etc.
The projects must:
- Include at least three EU GREEN partners,
- Be completed within one year or less (end of expenses: December 31st, 2026),
- Not exceed a total budget €20,000 for the whole project,
- Respond to sustainability challenges at the European or global level
Each proposal must have one designated Principal Investigator (PI) at one of the EU GREEN partner universities and one local project coordinator in charge at each of the participating member institutions.
Special attention during the selection process will be given to proposals:
- Involving the participation of early career researchers and their training by Research
- Seeding in the future a larger research collaboration,
- Having links with other priority areas within the EU GREEN alliance: Education, Innovation and entrepreneurship; engagement with external stakeholders and communities; mobility and internationalization; access, diversity and inclusion and campus life.
- Dealing with common territorial challenges and/or including regional external partners (i.e. public entities or private companies).
This call is open to the entire scientific community of our universities. It is not restricted to EU GREEN clusters.
EU GREEN scientific conferences
This action should support the organisation of scientific conferences. The conference can be either the continuation or second edition of a former activity funded in previous calls or a new proposal. These funds can be used to either cover operating costs or support the travel of lecturers and/or participants from EU GREEN universities.
- Include at least three EU GREEN partners,
- It will be granted up to €10,000 Euros for their organisation.
- The conference should be organised in one of the 9 EU GREEN universities and should forecast a detailed communication plan.
- The budget may include the travel fees of the EU GREEN researchers to come to the conference.
As a result, indexed conference proceedings will be asked.
Researcher mobility Program
The program finances outgoing mobility towards EU GREEN universities. It is expected from the research visits to either launch or reinforce research cooperation between EU GREEN institutions on an individual (researchers), intermediate (teams/medium scale projects) or institutional level (research centres/large scale projects, PhD schools etc.). Max €2,000 per person per mobility will be granted to cover travel costs and related expenses as accommodation and food during the mobility period.
The mobility must comply with internal regulations at each partner university. Mobilities will be funded only towards EU GREEN universities and for participation in project activities. Both the visiting fellow and the host researcher shall be actively implicated in the project’s realisation during the visit. The support of the project by a host researcher and host research centre is mandatory.
