HORISON: Harnessing Opportunities in Research and Innovation for Sustainable Outgrowth and Networking

The overall aim is to boost transnational cooperations in research and innovation within research organisations and higher education institutions addressing socio-economic challenges. 

The project focus lies on boosting research competitiveness and innovation capacity through activities that facilitate knowledge transfer, capability building, cross-border collaboration, and promote implementation of smart specialisation strategies between the partner countries. The project will also integrate academic and research integrity, and diversity into its activities to involve diverse expertise, enhance quality and contribute to positive societal change. 

 Project activities include to create a platform for engagement and active cooperation among main stakeholders of research and innovation processes, both at local and international levels and to enlarge the cooperation among multidisciplinary researchers’ through providing knowledge and skills for joint project set up, coordination and implementation.