The ATTRACT Showroom, a virtual platform which contains the most relevant information about each of the funded projects during phase 2, has just been launched. The showroom will serve as the central hub for all 36 funded projects: the 18 R&D&I projects in which researchers will have to consider how to advance the proofs-of-concept from phase 1 into something that is far closer to a marketable product and that generates new business for citizens.
It also contains the 10 Student Programs, a scale-up of the ‘Young innovators and entrepreneurs’ pilot from phase 1 that is running programmes for university students to generate ideas for social innovation inspired by the technologies developed within the R&D&I projects; and the eight Socioeconomic Studies which aim to gain new perspectives and enrich traditional impact metrics to evaluate the current process and outcomes of the ATTRACT or other ERI-IEs across its ecosystem, spinoffs, and research teams.
ATTRACT aims to establish a systematic framework to transform breakthrough technologies, developed for fundamental research purposes, into innovations that can provide added value to society.