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Civic university: The new university model

Research and Innovation (R&I) Loop sets its ambition in leveraging this new model where the regional dimension and social innovation enables and opens citizen-centric strategies.

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The project adopted an holistic approach to create bridges and links between 3 main pillars: research, education, and innovation.

These 3 main pillars are reflected in the twofold steps of the proposed loop:

Research and Innovation > Inception and outgrowing

Boosting smart civic universities: to reach this, it is necessary to foster public engagement and enhance the outreach and impact of research activities and results at different levels, including local/regional economic growth and innovation.

Education > Nurturing

Embedding research into curricula: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) leaders, and teachers are aware and put into practice a mix of practices that are both:
i) research-led/-oriented: linked to staff learning/presenting research skills and techniques.
ii) research-based/-tutored: linked to students learning how to do research and be a researcher as well as engaging in research discussions.

Objectives

The objectives of the R&I Loop are to:

Develop, test and mainstream a systemic and holistic approach that enhances the education, research, and innovation links of HEIs

Build, test, and scale-up of capacitation actions for HEIs’ teachers, researchers, and staff to be better equipped to respond to social challenges and needs

Design, test, and mainstream supporting tools that allow HEIs to adopt a systemic holistic approach and improve their educational offer

Promote and enhance civic and social responsibility across relevant actors of the quadruple helix nodes

Target groups

The project has an impact on the following groups:

Are you one of these target groups? If you want to get involved in the project, contact us!

End-users

HEIs’ representatives, leaders, teachers/researchers, students/alumni, and staff from core units dedicated to research support, pedagogical innovation, cooperation, and outreach.

Beneficiaries

Representative individuals and organisations from the quadruple helix, including industry/business, public authorities, and citizens/community.

Civic university: The new university model

These 3 main pillars are reflected in the twofold steps of the proposed loop:

Research and Innovation > Inception and outgrowing

Education > Nurturing

Objectives

Target groups

End-users

Beneficiaries

Latest News and Events

Final promotional events to spread the legacy of R&I Loop

R&I Loop Final meeting in Ancona

R&I Loop Project Workshop “Science Communication”

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R&I Loop Training Activity in Matosinhos

“Civic Universities and SDGs” lecture in a portuguese secondary school