EU-CONEXUS ENABLES: 
Launching Success 

Countdown until the event

EU-CONEXUS Alliance's initiative, EU-CONEXUS Enables, is about to kick-off in March 12-13, 2024! With the the thematic umbrella of SmUCS, it will be revolutionizing higher education, research, innovation, and societal service accross 18 partners in Europe.  

The project EU-CONEXUS Enables aims to foster robust academic and scientific collaboration across our Alliance members, aligning with the ERA policy agenda Action 13. Through innovative approaches like the Digital Twin methodology, we will be crafting sustainable solutions to tackle the most pressing challenges facing coastal environments. 

The team meeting in Bucharest will discuss on the challenges ahead: 

  • Enhancing transdisciplinary collaboration 
  • Facilitating knowledge transfer 
  • Engaging students, researchers, and professionals 
  • Identifying sustainable urban development strategies 

Kick-off EU-CONEXUS ENABLES meeting in Bucharest, Romania

12-13 March 2024

Venue: Universitatea Tehnica de Constructii Bucuresti, Faculty of Civil, Industrial and

Agricultural Buildings, Bulevardul Lacul Tei 124, Sectorul 2, Bucuresti

Tuesday, 12th of March

For all participants – Amphitheater I.2 and online via Microsoft Teams Broadcasted.

Please be informed that our meeting times are set according to Eastern European Time (EET), not CET. We kindly ask you to adjust your schedule accordingly. Thank you for your understanding.

09:00

Registration and coffee

10:00

Welcome speeches

Radu Vacareanu

Rector, UTCB

Jean-Marc Ogier

Chair of the Governing Board of EU-CONEXUS

Florin Baltaretu

Vice-Rector, UTCB

10:30

EU-CONEXUS Alliance – Capacity building projects as tools of cooperative development of the alliance

Isabella Baer-Eiselt

10:50

General vision of EU-CONEXUS ENABLES project

Ilinca Nastase

11:20

Roll out - Partners vision

Paris Fokaides

Thomas Bartzanas

Laura Šaltytė-Vaisiauskė

Zvejdan Penezic

Geraldine Canny

Bettina Eichler-Löbermann

12:00

Q&A and Brainstorming

12:30

Lunch break

Important!

For Work Package Leaders and representatives – I.14 room online via Microsoft Teams for the partners

14:00

Icebreaking Session

14:20

Roles and responsabilities WPLG and other representatives; understanding governance and decision-making process

Ilinca Nastase

Bogdan Gheorghe

Isabella Baer-Eiselt

Presentation of the tools available within EU-CONEXUS: ENABLES aliases on nextcloud, project management tool - Whaller

Etienne Bélin

Discussion about ENABLES procedure for meetings/work

Templates, reporting, minutes, doodle, etc.

15:20

Communication Strategy

Rasa Krolė

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

SmUCS Framework for Knowledge Transfer with focus on the Digital Twin Concept – establishing a multidisciplinary work group and task forces

Partners to be involved, working with the JRIs, good practice models of DT with application to SmUCS topics, RIIS as a tool

Paris Fokaides

Ilinca Nastase

17:30

Brainstorming about new ideas/suggestions

Questions will be answered and give the opportunity for participants to exchange

20:00

Social Dinner

Wednesday, 13th of March

Work Package Leaders and representatives – I.14 room.

Please be informed that our meeting times are set according to Eastern European Time (EET), not CET. We kindly ask you to adjust your schedule accordingly. Thank you for your understanding.

08:30

Registration and coffee

09:30

Research Career Development support activities – upskilling, reinforcing academic expertise

Good practices from RFS, concrete organization, activities to be foreseen

Eimear Fitzpatrick

Thomas Bartzanas

10:40

Stakeholders exchanges

Partners to be involved, call-out strategies, concrete organization, activities to be foreseen

Paris Fokaides

11:30

Open Science Strategy

Partners to be involved, concrete organization, activities to be foreseen

Zvejdan Penezic

Laura Šaltytė-Vaisiauskė

12:30

Lunch Break

14:00

Joint Research Cotutelles and Mobilities

Selection process, details regarding national regulations, problems to be identified

Ilinca Nastase

Thomas Bartzanas

15:00

Research Integrity and Gender Equality Consolidation

Good practices from RFS, concrete organization, activities to be foreseen

Bettina Eichler-Löbermann

Thomas Bartzanas

16:00

Fairwell coffee

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EU-CONEXUS Enables

Start date: 1 February 2024
End date: 31 January 2029

Lead Partner:

Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (UTCB)

Partners:

Frederick University (FredU)

Agricultural University of Athens (AUA)

La Rochelle Université (LRUniv)

Catholic University of Valencia (UCV)

Klaipeda university (KU)

University of Zadar (UNIZD)

University of Rostock (UROS)

South East Technological University (SETU)

Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University (ONU)

Stakeholders:

Primaria Sectorului 2 Bucuresti

Municipality of Limassol

Smart Agro Hub Anonymi Etairia Leivadia

Communaute D’agglomeration de La Rochelle

Reggie du Port de Plaisance de La Rochelle

City Development Agency Klaipeda ID

Zadar County

Southern Regional Assembly