Researchers (draft)
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As a HEROES researcher, you gain access to a European hub that connects expertise from nine universities and their regions. Develop joint projects, co-publish with partners across disciplines, increase the visibility of your work, and open up funding and innovation opportunities that reach far beyond a single institution.
What’s in it for you as a teacher?
Examples of offerings for researchers via HEROES:
Research pods
HEROES brings researchers together in interinstitutional research pods across six thematic areas — agriculture and food, care and wellbeing, circular economy, digital transformation, education & learning, and regional development. By joining a pod, you connect with colleagues across the Alliance, share methods and results, and help build a shared challenge-based research agenda focused on the resilience of people, businesses, and nature.
Ask your research office or pod facilitator about joining a pod. [emails of the facilitators ]
Joint project & proposal development
HEROES gives you a platform to team up with partners across the Alliance and prepare new joint funding applications together. For example, a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) hosted in Vilnius in October 2026 brings researchers together to co-develop Horizon Europe proposals — and more opportunities of this kind are on the way.
See upcoming opportunities on the HEROES Virtual Campus →
Seed funding for collaboration
HEROES launches open calls for small seed funding to support new inter-institutional research collaborations, helping you cover the costs of seminars, conferences, or other creative activities that get a joint idea off the ground. Teams involving at least three HEROES partners or associated partners can apply.
Watch for upcoming calls here →
Shared research facilities & infrastructure
As a HEROES researcher you gain access to a growing network of shared research infrastructure across the Alliance — experience labs, maker spaces, lab facilities, nature facilities, and more — either remotely or on site, with staff mobility funding available to support your visit.
Ask your research office about the access protocol.
Staff training & career development
HEROES supports careers in applied research through staff training events of all kinds and through job-shadowing and mobility across the Alliance, where you can learn from how colleagues in other institutions work and share good practices.
Browse upcoming staff training events on the HEROES Virtual Campus →
For job-shadowing and mobility, ask your Erasmus coordinator at your institution.
Research Magazine
HEROES publishes a Research Magazine several times a year. It is not a peer-reviewed scientific journal, but an accessible way to share your findings with peers, professionals, and a wider audience across Europe — and to see what colleagues in other regions are working on.
If you wish to contribute, please contact our colleagues from Instituto Politécnico de Beja:
Sara Albino (sara.albino@ipbeja.pt) and Cristina Santos (cristina.santos@ipbeja.pt).
The HEROES Virtual Campus is currently under development. Access will be enabled here as soon as the platform goes live.
