CORDIS · LETSGROW
Bridging Academia and Industry for Sustainable Agri-Food Solutions
- Code
LETSGROW- Programme
- HORIZON
- Call
- ERA Talents
HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03-01 - Status
- SIGNED
- Period
- 2025-06-01 – 2029-05-31
Official data · CORDIS · synced 2026-10-17 10:16 · official record
Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA PORTUGUESA | coordinator | PT | 511 005 € |
| UNIWERSYTET SLASKI W KATOWICACH | participant | PL | 394 875 € |
| SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI | participant | BG | 295 625 € |
| UNIVERZA NA PRIMORSKEM UNIVERSITA DEL LITORALE | participant | SI | 294 465 € |
| ASSOCIACAO DE MUNICIPIOS PARA A GESTAO SUSTENTAVEL DE RESIDUOS DO GRANDE PORTO | participant | PT | 227 640 € |
| UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES | participant | DE | 209 844 € |
| UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE | participant | ES | 207 500 € |
| ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO NACIONAL DE LA CONSERVA | participant | ES | 185 248 € |
| UAB Nando | participant | LT | 169 125 € |
| VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS | participant | LT | 134 250 € |
| FUNDACION PARQUE CIENTIFICO DE ALICANTE DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA | participant | ES | 113 500 € |
Description
The European agri-food sector faces pressing global challenges, including food security, climate change, and sustainability. To address these, it must adopt a knowledge-driven strategy rooted in cutting-edge research and innovations towards a sustainable food system. Promoting interoperable R&I careers that bridge academic and non-academic (NA) sectors is essential for fostering new solutions.LETSGROW is based on three pillars: training, mobility of talents and policy development to support this effort. These aim to foster collaboration between sectors, ensuring knowledge and resource exchange that mutual benefits. This mutualistic approach can nurture a fertile environment for R&I talents.Training focuses on equipping R&I talents with the evolving competencies of both sectors. LETSGROW addresses current gaps by building up talents’ skills as well as the institutional competence to support talents and their careers, offering a set of 37 training activities.Mobilities play a critical role in preparing R&I talents to work across sectors. LETSGROW offers: quality-based talent selection, a mentoring system, a return plan to maximise impact, and mobilities coupled with training. The cross-sectoral exchanges will allow NA talents to gain practical, industry-related experience, while gaining insights from academic research. Mobilities are designed so R&I talents gain critical competencies while involved entities establish and promote future collaborations.Evidence-based and needs-based policy is essential to enable positive change, and lessons learned from both training and mobility activities will feed co-creation of policy recommendations to enhance R&I talents career interoperability and employability.LETSGROW’s combined impact of targeted training, cross-sector mobilities, and supportive policy development will promote competitiveness of the R&I talents and the consortium, which gathers 11 Partners (7 from 5 Widening countries), including 4 NA entities.
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