HEI4S3-RM project

Politehnica University of Timisoara it is one of the Associated Partners of the project HEI4S3 - “Building Ecosystem Integration Labs at HEI to foster Smart Specialization and Innovation on Sustainable Raw Materials”, coordinated by Oviedo Univesity.

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Project Aim

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The project was created to strengthen the building of innovation capacity in Europe, striving for long-term sustainable development using the idea of the circular economy in order to modernize the raw materials and extractive sectors. The idea behind the circular economy is that the value of products, materials and resources are kept in the economy for as long as possible and waste generation must be kept to a minimum. These activities make an important contribution to the EU’s efforts to develop a sustainable, low-carbon, resource-efficient and competitive economy.

The project aims to strengthen partnerships between higher education, business and research organizations by developing an innovative pathway for entrepreneurial universities.

HEI4S3-RM is implemented as part of the EIT (European Institute of HEI4S3-RM is implemented as part of the EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology) HEI (Higher education institutions) Initiative, which is a key goal of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as part of its new strategy, the EIT strategic innovation plan for 2021 –2027.

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Methodology

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HEI4S3-RM partners involved have key roles in their local and regional Innovation Ecosystems, are relevant promoters of the regional Smart Specialization Strategy (RIS3) and most of them show important R&D and teaching capacities to build and guide the knowledge bases on a sustainable primary production and related services. This underlines the importance of the role of the regions and regional Innovation Ecosystems (Knowledge Triangle), that implies focusing efforts by HEIs and other sector related RTDs to wider innovation culture and to teach innovation and entrepreneurship, encouraging their R&D capacities and widening open cooperation initiatives aligned with the raw material and mining sector. For that aim HEI4S3-RM aims building Ecosystem Integration Labs at HEI to foster Smart Specialization and Innovation on Sustainable Raw Materials. Accessible with favorable conditions (organizational, didactic, research, innovations, leading innovations) included in the research inter-departmental conditions, cooperating within the consortium (between) Integrated Ecosystem Laboratories (EILs).

It includes the following activities:

– building ecosystem integration laboratories in each of the 6 HEIs to support smart specialization and innovation in the field of sustainable raw materials,

– promoting concrete actions for a broader entrepreneurial culture and teaching innovation and entrepreneurship in academia

– process management with the use of Management Boards by universities, involving management and non-academic specialists,

– building the capacity of specific multidisciplinary support structures that will be involved in managing the process of “HEI4S3-RM Innovators”

– exchange of good practice between EU universities.

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Challenges

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Main challenge is to connect universities with regional and local innovation ecosystems in the field of circular economy activities in the raw materials and mining sectors.

A specific Pool of interest (see annex Gantt Chart) for students and another pool of interest for research, academic and non-academic staff in HEIs will be created to ensure, monitor and manage target groups of the Training Program proposed: Students and other staff who follow the proposed training activities will obtain a specific certification with the recognition of their participation in the framework of this EIT-HEI project.

The key element is represented by the integration of scientific communities in various parts of Europe as part of common challenges related to the circular economy and adaptation to the occurring climate changes.

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For Whom?

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The project is aimed at European higher education institutions, which, thanks to this initiative, can become regional engines of innovation and support sustainable economic growth and create jobs across Europe.

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Academic partners:

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, https://www.uniovi.es/en/inicio

Universidad de Huelva, Spain, https://www.uhu.es/english/

University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" from Timisoara, Romania - https://www.usab-tm.ro/en

Technical University of Georg Agricola, Germany - https://www.thga.de/en/

Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland - https://www.lapinamk.fi/en

International Hellenic University, Greece - https://www.ihu.gr/ucips/

Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania - https://upt.ro/Universitatea-Politehnica-Timisoara_en.html

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?Mining and Metallurgy Institute Bor (MMI Bor) - https://irmbor.co.rs/en/

Geological Survey of Slovenia - https://www.geo-zs.si/index.php/en

Pheno Horizon, Poland - https://phenohorizon.com/en/

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