On the 19th and 20th of June, 2023, the INCENTIVE Project met in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the project’s sixth consortium meeting. The meeting was organised and hosted by the VILNIUS TECH – Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, which is one of the four pilot universities of the project. The event marked the beginning of the last semester of the project – which kicked off in February 2021 and is ending in January 2024. As such, the partnership is currently working to deliver the final results of INCENTIVE, with the #sustainability phase and the organisation of the upcoming EU-wide policy roundtable, as well as the Final Conference being widely discussed among partners.
During the 2-day meeting, partners had the opportunity to present in detail the work that they had carried out since last March, focusing on the different results, challenges, and metrics. A big part of the meeting was devoted to the achievements, lessons learned, and sustainability measures for the continuous operation of the #Citizen#Science Hubs by the 4 pilot universities: University of Twente, UAB – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), and VILNIUS TECH – Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Under this framework, the representatives of the Hubs signed an internal Memorandum of Collaboration, committing their universities to keep cooperating and mutually supporting each other towards the sustainability and upscale of their Hubs.
In parallel, partners brainstormed on the organisation of the upcoming #Policy#Roundtable of the project, which will be held in Brussels on the 18th of September, in concert with sister project TIME4CS. The scope of the initiative is the discussion and validation of the INCENTIVE and TIME4CS projects’ findings, and their potential impact on policy and policymaking at the EU level. More information on the event will follow soon.
🔝 Many thanks to VILNIUS TECH – Vilnius Gediminas Technical University for hosting the meeting!
