Deadline: 17-Mar-23
The RERIPA Project is launching its fourth Call for proposals dedicated to contributing to Pacific education/knowledge on Research and Innovation processes and tools, with a reference to Living Labs outputs against CCI.
Objectives
Strengthen a Pacific-based framework for education/knowledge on R&I ( with a focus on CCI and its mitigation) with:
- SO1: increase innovation capacities of stakeholders through adoption/diffusion of solutions resulting from Living Labs
- SO2: contribute to higher education and vocational training regarding R&I knowledge and tools in a Pacific Islands context (CCI).
- SO3: promote programs which emphasize how adaptation or mitigation solutions can guide R&I efforts.
- SO4: contribute to intra-Pacific exchanges of data,knowledge, and experience concerning Innovation related to CCI
- SO5: use digital technology to disseminate research and innovation results in the large Pacific region
Main Features
- Design and implement:
- teaching and learning workshops and material for NGOs, citizens, Politics, associations, companies;
- teaching /learning workshops and material for teachers of university & higher school;
- teaching educational content materials in different languages for different audiences (NGOs,citizens, politics) from living labs activities and integrate into existing training programs;
- programs of learning by doing activities, field work, etc. with the Living Labs consortia of public-privatestakeholders
- a high-level, multi-national, training framework for young scientists;
- an institutional framework that fosters public / private partnerships in the R&I chain;
- NB: Optimize / make the best use of digital technology for innovative learning approaches
- Products/results:
- training users/beneficiaries on innovation (cf. call 2 outputs // project engineering, open innovation, impact pathway, intellectual property, innovation brokering…);
- educational and workshop content/programs on innovation with a focus on to CCI;
- inventory, improvement and promotion of digital technology for innovative learning approaches (improve knowledge accessibility for “all publics”);
- contributing to the design of an institutional framework to reinforce R&I partnerships
- contribute to Pacific Islands – based Climate & Environmental Science curriculum.
Funding Information
- The Lead Applicant should submit a proposal not exceeding 300,000 Euros.
- A successful Applicant (as Lead Applicant or Co-applicant) will not receive over 400,000 Euros as a cumulative amount of the different grants obtained from the 4 RERIPA calls.
Eligible Countries
Applicants (legal entities) from the following ACP Countries are eligible to apply as Lead Applicant or Partners: Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Eligibility Criteria
- Category 1: Academic and research institutions /organizations.
- Category 2: Innovation support organizations (i.e., tech hubs, innovation labs and technology transfer offices); incubators and start-ups; university spin-offs; Vocational and Education Training providers; national science, technology, and innovation agencies.
- Category 3: Organizations representing indigenous and local communities; agencies and associations working for gender equality in research and innovation; nongovernmental organizations.
- Category 4: Other similar organizations with specific experience in the priority fields of this call.
- Consortium comprising at least 3 Applicants (including the Lead Applicant) established in the eligible countries listed above and from at least 2 eligible countries, with at least 1 Academic & research institution/organisation (Category 1), one from Category 2 and one from Category 3, from the list of eligible applicants above.
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