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BETTER Life Project

Bringing Excellence to Transformative Socially Engaged Research in Life Sciences through Integrated Digital Centers
BETTER Life will establish a European Digital Centre of Excellence for fostering Socially Engaged Research (SER) in Life Sciences, as well as seven regional centres operating in their surrounding ecosystems. This inter-institutional support structure addresses the lack of collaboration between early career researchers and the non-academic sectors by designing tools, standards, and framework conditions under the umbrella of the EU centre and implementing these solutions in the regional ecosystems. The project aims to support the development of inter-institutional capacities by establishing an EU BETTER Life coordination centre that will generate transferable tools and standards. At an intra-institutional level, the project creates local centres guided by a framework to follow the regional customization implementation. At an individual level, the regional centres develop capacities by training early career researchers and establishing a community of practice in each surrounding ecosystem. For that purpose, the centre is based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, where the interaction of academic, research, industry, government, and society generate mutually beneficial partnerships. Photo credit: Canva
ACEEU's Role: Leader of the Sustainability Strategy & Policy Development
ACEEU will lead the development of Work Package 7: Sustainability, in which there will be developed Sustainability and Valorisation Strategy and the Exploitation Paths and Business Models. Additionally, ACEEU will also lead the creation of the Status Quo Report on Research and Policies, the Framework, and the Standards for Socially Engaged Research in Life Sciences.
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Dr. Lina Landinez


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Adekola Ashonibare


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Project information

Project period
01 Sep 2022 to 31 Aug 2025
Funding body & program
Horizon Europe: European Excellence Initiative (EEI) , European Commission
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Partners
9 Partners (see partner information below)
Target group focus
EDU leaders,
Researcher,
Company representatives,
Government representatives,
NGO represenatives
Educational level focus
Higher education
Topic focus
Engagement
Discipline focus
Natural sciences
Output focus
Infrastructure development,
Network / partnership development,
Policy development,
Regional development,
Tool development
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BETTER Life applied in The Falling Walls Global Call
Falling Walls representatives nominated the BETTER Life project to apply to the Global Call. The Falling Walls Global Call is an international com [...]
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Advancing Socially Engaged Research in Life Sciences through the Definition of a Framework and Standards
The EU-funded project BETTER Life aims to foster socially engaged research in life sciences as a strategy for tackling diverse societal challenges. Th [...]
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Building a BETTERLife through Socially Engaged Research in Life Sciences
Socially Engaged Research (SER) is a strategic research approach that aims to involve diverse societal stakeholders in the research process. The prima [...]
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Pushing the Boundaries of European Research in Life Sciences through Social Engagement
In this week's kick-off meeting, ACEEU participated in the launching of the BETTER-Life project (Bringing Excellence to Transformative Socially Engage [...]
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This project has received funding from Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme.