Through ENRICH-TOGETHER, we seek to support independent post-doctoral researchers and their innovative and interdisciplinary research ideas under the umbrella theme of Green and Blue Transition. The open call invites submission of research proposals from post-doctoral researchers who are interested in a research and training experience of the highest international standards under the encompassing theme of Green and Blue Transition cross-cutting almost all disciplines, ranging from philosophy, international relations and economy to civil engineering, physics and marine sciences.
ENRICH-TOGETHER bridges Green Deal and Blue Growth under an all-encompassing theme of Green and Blue Transition. Drawing on the strategy of the EC to fully embed the blue economy into the Green Deal, ENRICH-TOGETHER underpins not only multiple EC priorities and Missions but also almost all of 17 SGDs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the UN. As such, the research theme of ENRICH-TOGETHER does not only encourage excelling socially responsible research on global urgencies but also provides researchers a complete freedom of choice in the topic of their proposals.
The research topics of ENRICH-TOGETHER can include, but are not limited to, as long as they fall within this comprehensive theme of the project:
- effect and rate of climate change through ancient and recent records in nature
- electric networks about renewable integration
- energy storage systems and sustainable management of electric energy
- nanoparticles to capture CO2 to hydrogen energy as well as offshore wind energy
- the role of AI and robotics in resource optimization and waste minimization in a wide range of sectors, including energy, transport, agri-food and production to sustainable manufacturing paradigms on hybrid manufacturing systems
- food security to protection of biodiversity and rehabilitation of human impacted ecosystems
- triboelectrics for maritime equipment for blue economy to smart curtains for buildings for green economy
- environmental awareness to understanding and mitigating varied socio-economic impacts of climate crisis on national, regional and international levels,
- foreign policies of the states in terms of green and blue transition
- climate-induced migration
- effective and situated policy planning to integrating green and blue transition
- education curricula
- ethical aspects of this grandiose Green and Blue transitions