Kaleidoscope Joint Activities

European Research Teams

ERTs are integrating activities, which target networking European excellence at the level of specific research challenges. The key idea of creating an ERT is to stimulate the mutualisation of knowledge and know-how of the best research teams on the identified issues, and then to favour the construction of a shared scientific policy, building up complementarities and common priorities. A committee builds a map of strategic research issues to be addressed by ERTs, in order to organise competitive calls within the NoE.

Special Interest Groups

SIGs are the basic community-building tools of Kaleidoscope. They allow individual researchers and PhD students from all the partner institutions to organize themselves around a problem or a project that they feel is at the forefront of the TEL research scene.

Jointly Executed Integrating Research Projects

JEIRPs encourage the cross-fertilisation of the research of the partner institutions by focusing on the key issues of the field—issues which are intrinsically multidisciplinary. A committee defines provisional “topics of integrated research” for the formulation of JEIRPs, and JEIRPs are also created following calls for proposals to the Kaleidoscope community.