The following 13 activities have been selected to be funded by the 4th Joint call for EELISA Communities to support challenge based learning among EELISA partners and collaborators. Each lead applicant will be contacted by email over the coming days (starting November 4th) to confirm acceptance of the final budget and guidelines for this call. The following table is thus “provisional” and subject to changes depending on approval, on behalf of the lead applicants, of comments and adjustments suggested by the EELISA Community Evaluation team.
| Activity title | Community | Lead applicant |
| GreenMeta City: Sustainable City Design | Metaverse and Sustainability Community | S Elias Damas |
| Hackathon “Sustainable Energy in Ukraine” | Society Transition towards Digitalization and Energy Decarbonization | RM Nistor Vlad |
| Solving Biomaterials Challenges Proposed by Medical Experts | Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Future | G Plaza Baonza |
| Critically Untrash: Upcycle Challenge as Self-reflective Practice for Sustainability | Circular EELISA | C Kaya |
| Education in the Data Era: Promoting Data-Driven Learning for Sustainable Community Empowerment | ENGAGE: Human-Centric Innovations IndustrialDesign4Human – ID4H, WATER in an era of change | MF Cabrera |
| Mapping Innovative Solutions for Displaced Academic Communities: Open Science and Education in Crisis Contexts | Re-shape Next Generation Academia | C Roveri |
| Blockchain for Sustainable Solutions: Bridging Technology with Global Responsibility | Blockchain for Sustainability | S Belviranli |
| The BeHappyFish Challenge – Technological Innovation for Sustainability in Aquaculture | Sustainable Food Production (SFP) | VG Méndez |
| Innovate Together: Co-Design Camp for Students and Teachers to Solve SDGs through STEAM (STEAMPACT) | Egalitarian Societies: Opportunities for Everyone | C Tripon |
| GENIUS (Gamified Education for Next International University Students) | SSERIES (Science for Sustainably Envisioning Reality and Information for an Engaged Society) | A Toma |
| Innovative Digital Approaches for Sustainable Urban Futures | Circular EELISA | GD Oruç Ertekin |
| Learning to Promote Proposals on Smarter Health Care Innovation for Smarter Cities (PromSCs) | Health in the City | JJ Serrano |
| Educating sustainability in chemistry programs using transdisciplinary challenge – based learning | Innovation and Design in European Engineering Education (IDEEE); Tech Diplomacy & International Cooperation; Industrial Design for Human, ID4H; EELISA WATER in an era of change | I Biru |
We would like to thank all applications received, a total of 20. All of them were quite interdisciplinary and the distribution among partners was impressive, a sign that EELISA Communties are strong and healthy. Unfortunately, mostly due to budgetary restrictions, 7 proposals are not able to be funded at this time. Each lead applicant, from the proposals that were not funeded, will be contacted over the coming days to provide feedback from the evaluation committee to help them reapply in the future.
As a general comment regarding the evaluation procedure, we attempted to make it as transparent as possible, with one person from each partner university (n=10 EELISA partners) evaluating each proposal (n=20) from October 16th till October 24th. A meeting was held on October 25th, to rank all proposals by scoring (out of 100 points), with the results shown above. Fortunately, the general feeling was the that numerical ranking corresponded well with a general appreciation of the quality of each proposal and its possible impact.
We would like to thank all applicants, all reviewers and the EELISA central office for their help with this call.