Speaking ahead of the event, RUN-EU PLUS Project Manager, Dr Siobhan Moane, said, ‘RUN-EU PLUS believes in the significance of its human capital and will support RUN-EU researchers and supervisors through the design and implementation of a common Researcher Career Framework Programme, a Research Career Development Evaluation System, a Research Skills Training Programme, a Cloud of Knowledge Portal and an Open Science Skills Training Programme to support and reward research excellence at all researcher career development stages’.

‘The RUN-EU PLUS project will build on the ambitious RUN-EU Discovery Programme and develop an integrated, long-term strategy for research and innovation within our European University. It will create a collaborative action plan focused on strengthening academic-business partnerships in research and innovation’, she added.

The ICARUS conference will:

• provide a space for the presentation of the most relevant scientific results in the focus areas, including special tracks for professional research programmes’ students;
• contribute to the open science agenda through close contact and informal discussion with business and society actors, in which the conclusions of the scientific world are presented in a clear way, which is accessible to the general public and particularly to business and society representatives;
• increase the cooperation and identify possible practical problems to be addressed by research students within the professional practice-based research degrees;
• implement annual innovation awards to recognise the companies or society actors that have a special contribution to the development of joint programmes, professional research activities and the development of the Research & Innovation ecosystem in the regions of the RUN-EU PLUS alliance;
• disseminate the impact of the professional research programmes in the companies and society, notably those that host the professional practice-based research degrees.