Arqus Research and Innovation

The Arqus European University Alliance brings together seven longstanding prestigious comprehensive research-intensive universities who share extensive experience in joint projects and a similar profile as internationalized institutions with deep regional engagement. Through this project, Arqus aims to enhance the research and innovation dimension of the Alliance’s activities and to address current global societal challenges through intensified joint research characterised by the pursuit of excellence, openness, transparency and effective engagement with society. Based on analysis of existing strengths, prior cooperation and shared strategic research interests, the Alliance will focus on the fields of Artificial Intelligence/Digital Transformation and Green Deal/Climate Change as transversal priority areas for enhanced research collaboration, characterised by their interdisciplinarity. The project is organised around three major challenges, all intended to foster a context to nurture sustainable strengthened collaboration. The first addresses Joint Science and Innovation, through building an Arqus research community, and designing a roadmap for transformation(al) excellence. The second centres on New Perspectives on Research, seeking to strengthen human capital through alternative approaches to assessment and recognition, and to re-thinking transfer, with special reference to the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. The third, Open to Society, focusses on the culture change brought by Open and Citizen Science. Arqus Research & Innovation aims to complement and build on efforts already underway to foster scientific cooperation within the European University consortium, and to seek synergies between the education, research and innovation dimensions of Arqus.