Engaging research institutions
One of the pre-conditions for any Horizon 2020 call is to get research institutions on board. In theory, Edgeryders constitute a radically new form of research institution, but in practice, we will need a university / research institute to be part of the mix. I’ve got some good contacts with universities with a project I was involved in, that are in the civic innovation space. So I was thinking, if I brokered a date / time for Edgeryders to present an initial proposal that would get them exicted and trustful that we were a serious partner, what would we need.
Starter for 10 would be:
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Map out research institutions that amongst us, we have a good relationship with…and who understand and want to engage with open horizontal networks as potential partners.
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Identify key messages about why and how Edgeryders would be the best partner to work with on the call we wanted to apply to (check: this has mostly been covered above)
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Put together a pitch to the research instution/s, as even if we have good contacts with some of these, they would still need to convince their research & enterprise departments and get sign off.
Perhaps a way to focus what we want to pitch for, is to have a formstorm on mapping out research institutions that meet the above criteria and writing a pitch to a research institution?
P.S. Eimhin, am up for exploring how we build transnational cooperatives