This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

<< Background >>The initial Euroculture programme was launched 25 years ago to offer a higher education response to lack of expertise observed to find strategies to deal with societal challenges related to the increase of multi-cultural societies in Europe as a result of several refugee crises, but also growing tensions within societies related to minorities. University experts conclude that an interdisciplinary approach would be the best answer to respond to these challenges. The need is felt more than ever.<< Objectives >>Offer and sustain a really transnational and interdisciplinary programme based on the concept of European Studies, combining political culture, cultural studies, social and political studies and religious studies. To enrol appr. 90 to 100 students per cohort. To educate these students for playing strategic roles in society, both as researchers, policy makers and experts in dealing with highly complicated societal issues as graduates.<< Implementation >>The programme based on the most current insights have been implemented according to plan. Although, the programme is based on the concept of a social community of learners, in the period 2020-2022 substantial parts had to be offered online or hybrid format. This has been done successfully asking a lot from all involved, staff and students. The learning outcomes of the programme as well as the overall concept could be respected.<< Results >>Objectives of the application and programme have been met, both in the number of applicants and enrolled number of students, success rate and the high quality of the programme. The enrolled number of students is slightly lower than planned and hoped for, but still rather substantial (84-91). A substantial percentage of students has been awarded the degree with highest distinction (cum laude). It is our initial impression that graduates have been able to find relevant employment in a short time.

C-H activation is a modern research field that has been witnessing extremely rapid development and has established itself as one of the most important fields in organic chemistry, allowing construction of complex molecular scaffolds from simple precursors. Indeed, the C-H activation strategy paves the way towards straightforward, step-economic and environmentally benign preparation of molecules of interest. However, although these key advantages, practical applications of the C-H activation way of thinking in industry are still scarce. Several reasons account for this lack of applications and amongst them two are particularly important: 1) limited interactions between academia and industry that clearly restricts a technology transfer between these two sectors and 2) limited number of young scientists with strong expertise in the C-H activation field. In order to overcome this gap and provide few tangible solutions, it’s crucial to promote, on one hand, the scientific collaborations between academic key players in metal-catalyzed C-H activation and scientists from industry. On the other hand, a new generation of young chemists, future leaders in the private sector, should be trained in the C-H activation field. Inspired by this issue, we have recently settled a new consortium between nine European academic groups and six industrial partners, all interested in the C-H activation field. The ambition of this consortium, that brings together scientists with complementary skills and expertise, is to promote applications of the C-H activation field in industry, by rendering this methodology more suited and in accordance with industrial expectations and requirements. This general objective has been divided into four axes: 1) use of the C-H activation in pharmaceutical industry via late-stage functionalisation of advanced drug precursors furnishing a molecular diversity from a common, advanced precursor; 2) synthesis of new building block via direct functionalisation of feedstock and raw materials; 3) construction of original organic materials with appealing features via direct functionalisation of simple precursors; 4) design of new technological solutions to allow implementation of the C-H activation for a large-scale industrial production. The project designed in that way gives a great promise to efficiently implement the C-H activation way of thinking in industry in both, the research sector where complex compounds are requested for new and appealing applications, and the production sector, where the C-H activation is prompt to pave the way towards more sustainable synthesis and production processes. This consortium perfectly suits call for proposal MSCA-ITN-2019. Accordingly, our objective is to prepare the proposal and submit it in January 2019. The purpose of the request MRSEI is to obtain a financial support that could help us in a preparation of such a big project. MRSEI would allow us to organize few scientific meetings between all partners and to request help of a consultant specialized in the ITN call for proposals. It should be noted that CHAIR was already submitted for MSCA-ITN-2018 call for proposal and we obtained a good score of 90,60. This results strongly encourages us to resubmit an improved version of the proposal for the call 2019.

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.