The InnoCore Challenge is an initiative developed within the project InnoCore – Core Technologies for Education and Innovation in Life Sciences funded in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme for KA2 Strategic Partnerships (https://innocore-project.eu/). The Project aims to build an innovative T-shaped educational and training programme, through academy-industry cooperation, targeted to knowledge-workers along with technological innovation and life sciences research infrastructures organized in Core Facilities.
Promoters of the InnoCore Challenge are the partners of the InnoCore Consortium, coordinated by the University of Trento (Italy), and that includes the University of Coimbra (PT); the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra (PT); CEITEC-Masaryk University of Brno (CZ); Hub Innovazione Trentino Foundation (IT); Sanipedia S.r.l. (IT); Fundacion Publica Andaluza Parque Tecnologico De Ciencias De La Salud De Granada (ES).
The participation in the InnoCore training programme is recognized and certified through the assignment of Open Digital Badges (ODBs) as digital certification of the skills acquired in the framework of the programme. ODBs are assigned through the platform BestR
To achieve its goals, the InnoCore project deploys many use cases such as Innovation Challenge Initiative (subject of this Call), to connect academies, target groups and industry.
This Call is aimed at selecting a maximum of twenty-five (25) young researchers, i.e. PhD students and graduates, Master’s students, research fellows and scholarship holders (“Solvers”), to take part in the event InnoCore Challenge.
Solvers will be grouped in Teams of up to five members and will enrol in activities aimed to elaborate solutions to Challenges in the life science domain launched from Companies (“Seekers”). Specifically, the Teams will address technical problems and/or questions related to Seeker’s business, assets or R&D activities, through the application of academic knowledge and the use of Core Facilities.
The Team of Solvers that will propose the best solution will be awarded a money prize of 3.000 Euro (split evenly among team members).
Within this initiative, Solvers are asked to address challenges from the following participating companies: ChemICare srl (Italy), Dompè Farmaceutici (Italy), Exogenus Therapeutics (Portugal), Nanogetic (Spain), Toxfinder (Portugal).
This Call is addressed to MSc students, PhD students, postdoctoral research fellows and scholarship holders aged 35 or under (on February 28th, 2022).
Applicants from these categories must be enrolled in an education and/or training programme and/or affiliated to one of the academic partners of the InnoCore Consortium, namely University of Trento (IT), University of Coimbra/CNC (PT), CEITEC/Masaryk University (CZ), the University of Granada (linked to PTS, ES).
Solvers will be asked to perform a self-assessment procedure and compile a final report that will allow participants to access the assignment of an Open Digital Badge (ODB) to recognize the participation in the training activities and certify the skills acquired in the framework of the initiative.
Candidate Solvers must fill out the online application form available at the link:
Applicants will be asked to provide a detailed curriculum vitae and to express and rank their preference to at least 3 (three) of the Challenges described in Annex 1 to the Call text.
The deadline for the application submission is February 28th, 2022 at noon.
More detailed information is available in the Call text and in Annex 1.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION write to:
innocore-project [at] uitn.it
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This project received funding by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement n° 2019-1-IT02-KA203-063391
