CUCo’s aim is to create a space that supports an interdisciplinary group of diverse young researchers to come together in unusual collaborations to address the most pressing challenges of the age.

Founded by early and mid-career academics from across the four EWUU alliance institutes, CUCo is committed to finding ways to address pressing societal challenges and produce sustainable transitions towards a better future. CUCo does this through stimulating collaborations across fields and disciplines, across institutes, and with partners from outside academia. Collaborations that go beyond the interdisciplinary research that exists already. And between young researchers who would, under ordinary circumstances, not team up. CUCo aims to foster new, unexpected, and unexplored collaborations based on co-design and co-creation of research projects.-

A space for collaborations

CUCo provides a space, both physical and intellectual, where collaborations can take place, and in order to facilitate thinking, learning and research that is:

• collaborative and interdisciplinary
• innovative and exploratory
• unexpected, surprising, and adventurous

CUCo offers support through training, inspirational events, research grants and a range of tools and approaches. CUCo wishes to provoke debate on what it means to be a young academic longing to think outside the box, and to showcase unusual modes of thinking and doing research.