BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Their core work

The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) is the governing body for public universities and colleges in the US state of Nevada, including UNR, UNLV, and DRI. Its researchers participate in EU projects across strikingly different fields — from safety validation of autonomous vehicles, to workforce transformation in transport, to medieval climate history in Italy. Rather than a single research profile, NSHE operates as an umbrella for independent faculty groups who bring US-based expertise into H2020 consortia on invitation. For European partners, it functions as a US academic bridge providing niche methodological or regional expertise.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earliest H2020 engagements (2020 onward), NSHE researchers focused on engineering-side topics — reliability, safety, and failure prediction for autonomous vehicles. The profile broadened quickly: later projects shifted toward the human and historical dimensions of change, covering labour restructuring under automation and medieval climate-driven land-use in Italy. With only three projects, this isn't a strategic pivot but a reflection of different faculty groups entering EU work independently.

Recent projects suggest Nevada researchers are increasingly invited into EU work on the social, historical, and workforce dimensions of technological and environmental change rather than pure engineering.

How they like to work

NSHE never coordinates — it joins as participant or third party, always in consortia built and led by European institutions. The three projects draw in 54 distinct partners across 20 countries, with almost no partner overlap, confirming that each participation is driven by a different faculty connection rather than a recurring institutional network. Expect to work with a specific professor or lab, not a central EU office.

Connected to 54 partners in 20 countries across just three projects, indicating very broad but thin networks. No repeat collaborators visible, so each project represents a separate academic relationship rather than a sustained consortium presence.

What sets them apart

NSHE is one of the few US public university systems appearing in H2020, and it contributes something most European partners cannot: a US perspective on transport automation, a Nevada-anchored view on autonomous driving testing, and Desert Research Institute expertise relevant to climate-history work. You would partner with them not for scale but to pull in a specific US researcher's methodology or regional access into a European consortium.

Highlights from their portfolio

• WE-TRANSFORM
  The most policy-relevant engagement — a Coordination and Support Action shaping Europe's transport-automation workforce agenda with rare US input.
• ArchitectECA2030
  Tackles the hard technical question of how much residual risk is acceptable in automated cars, a frontier safety-engineering topic.
• InAndAround
  An MSCA individual fellowship linking Nevada-based research to medieval Italian climate and land-use history — an unusual topic combination.