Sustainable Horizons

The Sustainable Horizons Alliance aligns with the European Research Area (ERA) and European Education Area (EEA) in 2025 by developing research quality synergies to better face upcoming global challenges and opportunities in education linked with the research.

The overall goal is to build the stronger European dimension made of diverse approaches, territories and institutions. The alliance focus on a regionally based sustainability-oriented perspective. The final beneficiaries are students and their future possibilities, landscapes and outreaches under a context of smart capacity, research and innovation, for a better society and stronger economy. The project is funded from Horizon Europe program (GA 101071300).

Project period

1.9.2022 - 31.8.2024

Project state

Finished

Project area

International

Project funding

Horizon Europe

International consortium meeting and Co-Creation Model Learning Café in Lahti 13.2.2024

International consortium meeting and seminar “A Step Towards Sustainability” in Huelva, Spain 23.4.2024

Objectives

The Sustainability Horizon Alliance aims to become as a reference in Open Educational/ Science/Citizen resources by making material documents and research data available, and by increasing our share of open publications, a central player in open information in Europe. Several established open science initiatives and policies, are already established among Alliance partners through which it provides services and support for students, researchers to practice open strategies. The Alliance repositories (UAlg, SAPIENTA https://sapientia.ualg.pt/, UHU Arias Montanto https://guiasbuh.uhu.es/AriasMontano, UTB DSpace https://digilib.k.utb.cz, and all the other similar initiatives from the partners BUVSA, LAB (https://www.labopen.fi/en/home/), LUBS) from the Sustainable Horizons will be also working together to guarantee an Open Educational, Open Science and Open Citizen Science resources Policy.

Realisation of goals

Economic/Technological: Increase 2% of Public and Private/Business investment in RDI in different HEI regions from WiDC in 2023 (synergy with PRR COVID Recovery Plans)

Scientific: New breakthrough scientific discovery on sustainability based on PhD thesis supported increasing the scientific performance of HEI of WidC with at least 20 scientific papers published one from each PhD candidate supported in open access in top cited scientific publications (Associcated partners from the Africa and South-America are involved).

Societal: Lower CO2 Climate impact in campus/region by activities like planting native plants and trees and develop of a sharing platform to incentive ecobike use etc. . Increase literacy about sustainability science in replicate effect in neighborhoods

Outcomes

To have established HEI WidC roadmaps and plans concerning crucial aspects:

-Support for researchers

-Open Access systems in partner locations

-Inclusion and gender balance plans

-Research data management

-Citizen science

-Green Deal

-Geographic/Internationalization Priorities

-Technology Transfer Offices -IP rights

-Academia/Business Links,

in network with HighPC HEI

OUTCOMES in numbers

20 new PhD candidates in the doctor of science track

20 CEOs of included in academia-business events

10 new HEIs from Africa, Asia and South-America in the network as associated partners

20 secondary students acted as reviewer of science communication papers

10% more of local citizens will be aware of sustainability concept and its importance to have a safe and just space for humanity respecting nature and planetary boundaries

5% more of research products of Alliance WidC HEI in Open Access channels (OA publications, OA data set, repositories)

https://osobservatory.openaire.eu/home

Sustainable Development Goals