About us

Nutrition and Health aims to bring together the academic community – medical, biomedical and paramedical sciences, nutritional sciences, dietetics– with medical practitioners, policy makers, care and food providers, to define the major interregional challenges in health and care such as ageing, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and how care and nutrition can be improved to better deal with these.

The overall aim will be to illuminate the national and regional dynamics and highlight actions that can support and guide development of shared high-quality evidence-based interventions, with the cross fertilization of ideas at the national and international level bringing research findings and innovative practices to practitioner and producer communities.

This cluster is aimed at addressing issues of Communities and Wellbeing through the specific focus of Diversity and Inclusion in theory, research and global practice. What are the significant political, professional and civil society initiatives that further this agenda in regards to migration, gender equality, non-discrimination along lines of origin and religious identities, but also sexuality, disability, or age? Our approach will be to tackle these subjects from various fields and policy domains, including [higher] education, employment, urban belonging, housing, and territorial/regional integration. By bringing the academic community -- in law, social and political sciences, psychology, education sciences, humanities -- together with policy makers, practitioners and civil society organisations, the overall aim will be to illuminate the national and regional dynamics that differentially shape these concerns into policy interventions; to highlight emblematic actions that can support and guide the development of shared high-quality practices, with the cross fertilisation of ideas at national and international level bringing research findings and innovative practices to policy makers and practitioner communities, faced with common challenges of global diversity, social justice, and innovation (societies in transition?)

Climate and Energy group aims to share an outline map of the current research activity across the four universities, as the diversity of work in science, humanities and social science, related to this topic is both an opportunity and a challenge. Some of 3i partners are currently collaborating with each other and are part of extensive international networks.

Success in combating climate change and delivery of energy objectives will be a combination of technology, leadership, policy, and behavioural change. Research will have to address this extensive complexity to ensure we adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change. Collaborative networks such as 3i offer the opportunity to accelerate change.

The group goals to find common threads to link research on this topic and form, between the 3i partners the basis for joint European Research funding to demonstrate our collective contribution. Our success will be based on linking academics and complementary areas of research to multiply our stand-alone impact.