EVOluTION – European Vascular Interventions and Therapeutic Innovation Network is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network offering joint research training at the PhD level. EVOluTION will train 11 PhD students in tissue-protective processes operative in our body, with exemplars and proof-of-concept investigations into 1) dietary approaches to augment synthesis and release of vasculo-protective mediators, 2) mechanisms, mediators and targets of the resolution of inflammation arena, and 3) chemical, biochemical and engineering approaches for therapeutic innovation.