Seven Innovative Projects Selected After First Aurora Call for Incentive and Collaborative Research Projects

Launched in February 2024, Aurora’s first Call for Incentive and Collaborative Research Projects received 26 high-quality applications from all institutions within Aurora, gathering the expertise of 87 research groups from diverse disciplines. Seven projects made the final cut and will receive funding over the next two years. 

The 2024 Call for Incentive and Collaborative Research Projects has been created under Task 5.2 on Academic Collaboration and Community Building of the Aurora 2030 programme supported through the European Universities Initiative by the European Commission. This annual call aims to offer opportunities for young and established academics to further enhance research cooperation within Aurora universities.  

The research proposals funded within the framework of this call have been evaluated on a challenging list of criteria, including their scientific quality, originality and feasibility. Projects also had to demonstrate their added value for the Aurora 2030 programme, in particular their potential to create scientific communities, and, if relevant for their topic, to contribute to the Aurora hubs.

Innovative Projects Make Their Mark 

Following a thorough evaluation process and difficult choices to be made, the Aurora Research Council (ARC) finally selected seven potentially innovative projects for a total available funding of €104,000, counting an average of €15,000 per project. Due to the success of this inaugural call, this amount has indeed been redefined to fund more projects than anticipated. The results of the evaluation have been later confirmed by the Vice-rectors for Research from Aurora universities.    

Funded projects will begin in autumn 2024 and run for the next two years. Without a doubt, success of these projects, and that of the researchers’ scientific work, will enrich the Aurora community and further contribute to the progress within the Aurora hubs. 

Below is the list of successful projects. Detailed information for each project will be made available soon on this website.The results for the Call for Incentive and Collaborative Research Projects 2024 are an encouraging start to fostering tangible, robust scientific and academic collaboration and communities in Aurora universities. Following this initial success, a second call will be launched in early 2025.  In view of the large number of high-quality projects submitted, Aurora hopes to secure more funding for this action in the future.

Get in touch with the office of the Aurora Research Council.