Projet SUNSET (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SUNSET aims to develop innovative research and training capacity around city-university interactions driving the EU’s green and digital transition. This twin transition is a defining element of the current EU policy agenda towards achieving climate neutrality and sustainable growth. The European Commission considers cities to be frontrunners in this transition agenda, but their transformational capacity and resilience crucially depends on the presence of agile and high-performing urban innovation ecosystems. SUNSET brings together (1) prominent researchers working in diverse geographical and disciplinary settings at leading universities (N=6) with (2) partners (N=16) from city governments (often participating in the Cities Mission to achieve climate neutrality by 2030), innovation companies, research institutes and civil society organizations to analyze and foster the performance of these urban innovation ecosystems: drawing on a purposeful range of interdisciplinary, international, and intersectoral exchanges, the Doctoral Network will investigate whether and how universities can successfully become key drivers of the twin transition in cities via their role as innovation partners, the implementation of campus living labs, and as architects of decision-making in governance ecosystems. Through a tailored combination of network-wide training events and academic and non-academic secondments, the SUNSET Doctoral Network will train a new generation of researchers to become future urban innovation ecosystem leaders in the pursuit of the twin green and digital transition. The findings will lead to practical guidelines regarding the design and implementation of living labs for university and city management, tailored strategies to foster more inclusive and diverse urban ecosystems, and diverse forms of scientific outreach and dissemination.

Mots clés : sustainable innovation, digital innovation, twin transition, urban innovation ecosystem, quadruple helix, cities

Participants :
- Leuven mindgate (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Stavanger (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 595497.6 €
- Levuur bv (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Tartu (Estonie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 477014.4 €
- Gemeente utrecht (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Mapita oy (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Nordic edge as (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Aalto (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 286488.0 €
- Stavanger Kommune (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute of Baltic Studies (Estonie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre de recherche technique de Finlande (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- City of Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Stichting nationaal park utrechtse heuvelrug (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Leuven klimaatneutraal 2030 (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Vaasa (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Lahden kaupunki (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Nokia (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 286488.0 €
- Espoon kaupunki (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Tartu linn (Estonie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Utrecht (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 548740.8 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 525240.0 €