5th PLACE

EDI Community Engagement Initiative of the Year Award

Researchista

5th PLACE EDI Community Engagement Initiative of the Year Award

United Nations University-MERIT and Maastricht University - The Netherlands

"Connecting the Ivory Tower with the Public since 2016."


Summary

Knowledge is not something one can touch, smell or see. Knowledge is a sort of magic that people’s brains can generate while doing an action: think and research, experiment and think again. This is why, at Researchista we believe that all this hard work and dedication is not understood or seen well enough, simply because of this particularity: knowledge and generation of knowledge. a There are so many attempts and talks about this 'particular particularity’. In academia the efforts of communicating research are known as: research valorization. Making research more accessible and practical is essential and goes beyond the question of return of the investment done in research. Research valorization has a social impact, it has educational benefits, it contributes to global competitiveness, sustainable development, cultural enrichment and it even helps policy and decision making. Imagine a place online where researchers from all alleys of work can expose their research-inspired products and tell the story behind their research and families that from young age inspire new generations to create a bond with researchers, to use research in daily life, to apply research to change habits and finally, to play research-powered games and toys!

Key People


Dr. Irene Burlacu de Paoli
Project Lead and Founder at Researchista
Maastricht University/UNU-MERIT



Dr. Sandy Rathod
Advisory Board at Researchista
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences



Sunny Jiang
Advisory Board at Researchista and CEO MaasVenture
100 Women at Davos 2024


Acknowledgements

We are grateful to all those who believe in researchers, who believe in great things that researchers can do and who appreciate how much research changed our lives. Special thanks to all the agencies who communicate about our efforts during the evaluation process and who supported us in the past competition at the Triple E Awards! With ChatGPT, we know that researcher who always be needed to further advance and complement the status quo.

Images

Researchista Logo

Welcome to Development with Researchista!

Roadmap on Cooperation at Researchista

Researchista's Five steps into Converting your research into a product/service

Researchista's vision. Education starts at home.

IMPACT STORY

Impacting lifes

Our impact story is in the making. With over 2 million researchers in the European Union and 9 million researchers overall, the movement of 'sciencepreneurship' or the intersection between entrepreneurship and academia is becoming prominent. We hope to inspire as many researchers as possible and invite them on Researchista to chanel their creative energies and give their imagination more credit.
We believe that with the Mobility Era Game, what we found from our research to be the number one board game on fiscal education, we set the right example to other researchers to convert their PhD thesis or any other research project into a research product. At Researchista, we believe that the research products go beyond lab equipment and online purchases between universities and industries, we want to make research fun accessible to those families that appreciate the value of research-driven products.

LEARNINGS

Lessons learned

As venture based in Amsterdam who bootstrapped most of the time, we wish to those who try and believe that their idea can come true, lots of perseverance. Being a founder, running a startup is not an easy task on its own, pursuing a mission is like pursuing a dream, it will give you energy. So, when in crisis or lost, your ability to navigate back to your.

FUTURE PLANS

What's coming?

This is a call for action to all researchers out there who read this message. If you ever thought of developing your own product as a result of your research project because you want your results to be heard or seen, email us at researchista@outlook.com and let us make a plan on how you can bring your product to the market. Morever, if you are part of an incubator or accelerator, we want to help in any way we can by creating more momentum for the sale of your product and add your creation on our online store. We hope to create that space of security and friendliness, beyond marketing or commerce. We hope to create a genuine bond with families and wider public and bring a new dimension to researchers who work so hard and sometimes are never heard or seen. Let us inspire and make the change together!


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