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Participation in European funded projects

Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities: Programme: HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01, Grant agreement ID: 101132163 (2024-2027: 48 months).

Funding awarded to the University of Coimbra as subcontractor of OPERAS: ca. 60.000€. State of the project: started in January 2024.

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (Coordinator), Nelson Ferreira, Lorena Caliman, and Maria Olímpia Especiosa. Main activity area: T3.4 Multilinguality; T3.4.1 Keyword translation; T3.4.2 Translation of textual content.

  • LUMEN (Linked User-driven Multidisciplinary Exploration Network):

Funding Programme: HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-05, Grant agreement ID: 101187940

Project duration: (36 months) from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027

Funding awarded to the University of Coimbra: 158,777€. State of the project: started in January 2025.

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (Coordinator), Nelson Ferreira; Lorena Caliman.

Activity areas: T2.4 Automating Semantic Artefact design with AI [UC leads]; T4.3 Meta-Data Refinement; Enrichment [UC leads]; T6.2 Chatbot; T6.6. Use Case Testing; T.6.3 Metrics Services [UC leads]; WP7 Exploitation and sustainability of discovery platforms; WP8 Communication and dissemination.

Preparing Open Access in the European Research Area through Scholarly Communication: EU Horizon 2020 project 871069 (2019-2021).

Overall funding: 2.010.563€; funding awarded to the University of Coimbra: 66.765€. State of the project: concluded.

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (Coordinator), Ana Balula and Lorena Caliman.Main activity area: development of T6.4 "Innovative models of bibliodiversity in scholarly publications".

HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02 project 101079608 (2022-2025: 36 months).

Overall funding: 2.999.989€; funding awarded to the University of Coimbra: 309.561€. State of the project: starts in September 2022.

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (Coordinator), Carmen Soares, Frederico Lourenço, Nelson Ferreira, Lorena Caliman, Maria Olímpia Especiosa, Pedro León.

Main activity area: Coordination of WP7 “Support to national nodes”; participation in WP5 “Technical support to OPERAS services” (Coordination of Task 5.5 – “Design study for OPERAS Translation Service”) and WP8 “Communication and impact assessment”.

  • PALOMERA:

Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area: Programa: HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01-42, Grant agreement ID: 101094270 (2023-2024: 24 months).

Overall funding: 1.859.812,50€ funding awarded to the University of Coimbra: 81.250 €. State of the project: started in January 2023.

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (Coordinator), Nelson Ferreira, Lorena Caliman, and Maria Olímpia Especiosa.

Main activity area: participation in WP2 “Building the Knowledge Base”, WP3 “Analysing the Knowledge Base”, WP4 “Recommendations and Resources”, and WP5 “Communication, Dissemination, Engagement and Validation”.

Strategic Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Open Science. Funded by the Strategic Partnerships Programme of the Nawa Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej in Poland. (2024-2026: 24 months).

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (coordinator), Nelson Ferreira, Lorena Caliman, and Maria Olímpia Especiosa.

Main activity area: the project aims to establish an Open Science research network and build lasting collaboration between institutions based on exchanges of researchers and international and local events.

Targeting Researchers through Innovative Practices and multiLingual Exploration: EU Horizon 2020 project 863420 (2019-2023_ 36 meses).

Overall funding: 5.600.000€; funding awarded to the University of Coimbra: 61.438.75€. State of the Project: concluded.

CECH Members involved: Delfim Leão (Coordinator), Ana Balula, Nelson Ferreira, Lorena Caliman, and Isabel Gouveia.

Main activity area: participation in WP2 “Data acquisition and categorization” and in WP8 “Communication and dissemination”