09.02.2024
research labour market and social policy

A4L ACTIONS

Continuing the success of Alliance4Life, the EU-funded A4L_ACTIONS project aims to tackle the health R&I gap by improving the culture, governance, recognition and innovation potential of the health research-performing institutions in the lower-performing Central and Eastern European countries. This will help increase their attractiveness and pave the way for collaborations with advanced European countries.

Project Duration:

May 2021 – April 2024 (36 months)

Total budget:

EUR 1.99 million

Funder:

The project's key outputs include:

  • Culture fostering excellence: piloting peer-evaluation and assessment of institutional practice as a strategic management tool, professionalizing research administration;
  • Recognition and trust towards CEE: attracting advanced partners to identified pockets of excellence, supporting scientific ideas originating in CEE, initiating new international projects and collaborations with industry;
  • Career policy nurturing talent: training and networking next generation of leaders, upgrading institutional career systems;
  • Impact on innovation: raising the competences of Technology Transfer specialists, creating industry relations platform linking academia and industry;
  • Spill-over effects: sharing, inspiring, communicating with stakeholders and policy makers; using the established networks to gain advice, new collaborations and EU-wide impact.

Fakultni Nemocnice U Sv Anny V Brne (Czechia)

Biomedicinske Centrum Slovenskej Akademie Vied, Verejna Vyskumna Institucia (Slovakia)

Uniwersytet Medyczny W Lodzi (Poland)

Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Medicinski Fakultet (Croatia)

Vilniaus Universitetas (Lithuania)

Latvijas Organiskas Sintezes Instituts (Latvia)

Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenia)

Semmelweis Egyetem (Hungary)

Medical University Sofia (Bulgaria)

Universitatea De Medicina Si Farmacie Carol Davila Din Bucuresti (Romania)

CASS members with the project

Martin Hayford

Heidi Erbsen