Project “COALESCE: Cooperation for Academic Integrity through Law, Ethics and Stakeholder Engagement” (Project No. 101061229 – COALESCE – HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01) |
Project title in Lithuanian: „COALESCE: Europos mokslo komunikacijos kompetencijų centro kūrimas“
Project goal: To strengthen the science communication ecosystem across Europe by establishing a European Competence Centre for Science Communication. The centre brings together organisations from different countries and regions to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the implementation of best practices among researchers, communication professionals, and the wider public.
Funding source: European Union’s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe
Project website: https://coalesceproject.eu/
Project start date: 1 January 2023
Project end date: 31 December 2026
Short description:
The COALESCE project aims to establish a pan-European science communication infrastructure – a Competence Centre that will provide resources, methodologies, training, and strategic support in the field of science communication.
A key pillar of the project is the network of National and Regional Hubs (N&R Hubs), which ensures the implementation of project activities across various European regions while adapting to local contexts. These hubs help tailor tools for local audiences, translate materials into national languages, build communities of practice, and contribute to dissemination and training activities.
Project team:
Dr. Reda Cimmperman (Coordinator), Gabrielė Dambrauskaitė (Senior Researcher), Dr. Rima Sinickė (Researcher), Dr. Eglė Ozolinčiūtė (Researcher)
Project “BRIDGING INTEGRITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY“ (reference: 2020-1-SE01-KA203-077973)
The main aim of the Project: to create a bridge between academic integrity, research integrity, integrity in business, and society in order to reach a broader understanding and transparency of integrity between these fields, as well as interrelated skills and qualifications needed to act in accordance with academic integrity values.
Funding: Erasmus+ programme, Key Action “Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices”, Action Type “Strategic Partnerships for higher education”.
Project website: https://www.academicintegrity.eu/wp/bridge/
Start of the Project: 1 September 2020
End of the Project: 31 August 2023
Project team: dr. Julija Umbrasaitė (project manager and researcher), dr. Birutė Liekė (researcher)
Project “MOBILISING DATA, POLICIES AND EXPERTS IN SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS” (CA17106)
The main aim of the Action: to build an inclusive, bottom-up and responsive network to address the urgent challenges around the mobilisation and linking of natural science collections reference information. The Action focuses on knowledge and technology transfer across stakeholder communities, related projects and Research Infrastructures.
Project website: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA17106/
Funding: COST programme
End of the Action: April 2023
End of country representatives in the COST Action Management Committee: January 2022
Project “CITIZEN SCIENCE TO PROMOTE CREATIVITY, SCIENTIFIC LITERACY, AND INNOVATION THROUGHOUT EUROPE” (CA15212)
The main aim of the Action: to bundle capacities across Europe to investigate and extend the impact of the scientific, educational, policy, and civic outcomes of citizen science in order to gauge the potential of citizen science as enabler of social innovation and socio-ecological transition.
Office’s role in the Action: WG4 ‘Enhance the role of CS for civil society’ co-chairing under the leadership of Dr. Artemis Skarlatidou from the University College London (United Kingdom).
As a potential outcome of this Action to the Office would be the development of guidelines for ethics assurance in citizen science projects.
Project website: https://cs-eu.net
Funding: COST programme
End of the Action: September 2020
Country representatives in the COST Action Management Committee:
Dr. Loreta Tauginienė (substitute – prof. Dr. Alvydas Baležentis (21/09/2016–20/01/2019); Regimantas Juras (21/01/2019–17/10/2019); Gintarė Židonė (since 18/10/2019)
Prof. Dr. Eglė Butkevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology) (substitute – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Vaidelytė)
Reports on the Participation of Lithuanian Representatives in Governance Committee Meetings (Mandatory publication by 28 July 2019)
4 June 2019 – Cēsis (Latvia) – Regimantas Juras
19–20 November 2019 – Brno (Czech Republic) – Loreta Tauginienė
12–13 December 2019 – Berlin (Germany) – Loreta Tauginienė
24 February 2020 – Florence (Italy) – Loreta Tauginienė
Updated: 17 April 2025