Projet INTERACT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The last decades are characterised by great breakthroughs in the understanding, diagnosing, and treating of many diseases. As fields advance, researchers are increasingly challenged to merge domains in order to tackle complex health-related societal issues. Thus, the next generation of researchers require strong collaboration skills and abilities to integrate knowledge from other disciplines into their research efforts. Despite this, formalised interdisciplinary research training falls short. INTERACT is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme with the goal of inspiring and enabling fellows working seamless across STEM disciplines to advance health solutions in the fields of cancer and neurological diseases. Fellows will work on original PhD projects bridging across biology/biomedicine to chemistry, physics or engineering. We will also include science didactic research on interdisciplinary education at graduate level. INTERACT’s main goals are: 1) to create a model for structured ‘convergence science’ training in Denmark, 2) to discover methodologies and approaches supporting interdisciplinary STEM research, and 3) to nurture fellows’ entrepreneurial and transversal skills, important for their future intersectoral career options. We will recruit 66 international fellows over three cohorts at two implementing partner organizations, the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark, ensuring fellow diversity through unbiased, transparent and merit-based selection. Selected fellows will be jointly supervised by an Interdisciplinary Supervisor Team, will undertake international secondments, obtain transferable skills training and career activities provided by other-sector partners. INTERACT will be one of the first European doctoral programmes on ‘convergence science’, strengthening Europe’s role at the forefront of interdisciplinary and intersectoral research training, with potential to solve complex unmet health needs.

Mots clés : interdisciplinary stem research, interdisciplinary research training, cancer, neurological diseases, biomedicine, physics, chemistry, engineering, natural science didactics, science education

Participants :
- Université de Tampere (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Conavigator aps (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Lundbeck foundation (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Medicon valley academy f.m.b.a. forening (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Novo Nordisk (Denmark) (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Danish Cancer Society (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- KTH Institut royal de technologie (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centro de Regulación Genómica (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Synapse - life science connect (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute of Cancer Research (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 6652800.0 €
- Abzu aps (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Bioinnovation institute fonden (Danemark) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €