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A research partnership with a route to impact

Western's Horizon Europe collaboration shows how international projects can widen the path from evidence to application.

Western prof contributes to Horizon Europe-funded project. Official Western News image.
Business & entrepreneurshipWestern prof contributes to Horizon Europe-funded project. Official Western News image.Photo: Western News / official source page

Entrepreneurial thinking can begin inside research partnerships: define a hard problem, share expertise and build something that can travel beyond one lab or one institution.

The Horizon Europe project belongs in that larger picture of innovation. Its value is not a promise of a product; it is a documented route for collaboration and translation.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
Next · p.49Western key hub for Horizon Europe-funded project studying disabling chronic illnessWestern is the only non-European partner in DISCOVER-ME, a €7.5 million Horizon Europe project to find biological causes of ME/CFS and speed up treatments.

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