ARIES (Applied Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Support) Incubator is a joint initiative under the ACE²-EU Alliance designed to foster cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration in tackling digital, green, and socio-economic challenges.
About the ARIES Incubator
The Incubator will act as a central hub for joint research and innovation activities, entrepreneurship support, and knowledge exchange. It will address critical contemporary challenges such as digital and green transitions and broader socioeconomic issues. It will promote both academic collaboration and real-world impact, connecting researchers, students, entrepreneurs, and industry actors across Europe.
The following key objectives guide the ARIES Incubator:
- To promote collaborative research and innovation on current and emerging societal challenges through cross-disciplinary, cross-sector, and cross-border partnerships in three research hubs, the ACE²-EU Applied Research and Innovation Centres (ARCs).
- To build researcher and entrepreneurship competencies across ACE²-EU members through support programmes and the ACE²-EU Entrepreneurship Academy (EA), a specifically designed unit that supports emerging entrepreneurs and strengthens innovation-driven business development.
- To create integrated knowledge networks, including research databases, solution platforms, and other support services, bridging academia, industry, and society.
The ARIES Incubator will bring together the collective research expertise from across the Alliance and the partnerships with external stakeholders from the different member regions to increase the relevant RDI output within the Alliance in EU priority areas, including the twin digital and green transitions and healthier societies. Through levying third-party funding at the regional, national, and international levels, our experts shall devise solutions for concrete and real-world challenges in our societies in these priority areas. By collaborating closely with external stakeholders and partners from the member countries, the alliance wished to contribute to fostering just and equitable transitions across different countries and segments of societies, as well as healthier societies across age, gender, and socio-economic background. To achieve this goal, the ARIES Incubator will run a series of activities and initiatives to support networking between experts within the Alliance and with external stakeholders and offer competence-building opportunities that will leverage our Alliance’s RDI output.