Seed Fund Initiative

The Cities in Times of Drought or Abundance project, funded by Unite! Seed Fund and led by UPC, aims to create a joint academic course exploring architectural and urban solutions to mitigate climate impacts.

Time to Put Inclusion into Action

After three years of dedicated collaboration, the IDEM project has come to a successful close. Funded from 2022 to January 2025, IDEM brought together five Unite! universities – TU Darmstadt (coordinator), UPC Barcelona, Aalto University, Universidade de Lisboa, and Grenoble INP-UGA – with Politecnico di Torino as an associate partner. Their shared mission: to make student mobility more inclusive and equitable.

Seed Fund project on developing a Joint Master’s Programme focusing on Games for Health

Although Serious Games have demonstrated their value in improving health outcomes, the current deficit in knowledge and educational programs poses a significant challenge that must be overcome. The Seed Fund initiative “Unite! Games4Health” aims to establish an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programme (EMJM) focused on the development and application of Serious Games for health, known as Games for Health (G4H). It seeks to bridge this gap by fostering collaboration between game developers and healthcare experts. By bringing together these two fields, they aim to create a comprehensive understanding of how Serious Games can be effectively utilized in various healthcare settings. Serious Games are designed not only for entertainment, but also to achieve specific goals such as enhancing learning, promoting behaviour change and supporting health prevention and rehabilitation.

Apply now until April 7

The applications are now open until April 7! This fall 30 Unite! students will be heading by train from Darmstadt to Graz, focusing on entrepreneurship, sustainability, and multicultural collaboration. This year, the train trip will be organised by TU Graz and TU Darmstadt, taking participants from Darmstadt in central Germany to Graz in southern Austria.

A Recap

Under the motto “Unite! students: our soul, our core,” over 500 participants from the nine Unite! universities gathered at UPC from February 25 to 28 to advance a more connected and innovative European higher education system.

Register via the Metacampus space until March 17th, 2025.

Improve your speaking skills in Spanish, Catalan, German, Italian, French, Swedish, Finnish, Portuguese, Polish, or English with another student from the Unite! community, discover their culture, and expand your international network. Register via the Metacampus space for virtual language tandems until March17th, 2025.

Webinar series for studentsCafé

In compact 20-minute sessions, Unite! presents various opportunities for students. Topics include summer schools, multicultural and multilingual programmes, the U!Train – a course that enables a study tour through Europe – and exchange study programmes. The webinar series will take place on 12 March 2025, with the registration deadline on 10 March 2025.

Unite! guest professors at TU Darmstadt for the first time

In the winter semester 2024/2025, four Unite! guest professors will be teaching and researching at TU Darmstadt for the first time. The Unite! Guest Professorship aims to attract outstanding international talent to promote interdisciplinary teaching and didactic innovation through international experience. We introduce the visiting scholars and their research. The next call for applications is already open, with the deadline for submissions being 31 March 2025.

Hosted by UPC in Barcelona

From February 25 to 28, the Unite! community will meet in person once again for an edition dedicated to students and their role in shaping the future of the alliance. “Unite! students: our soul, our core” is the theme of this exciting event, packed with activities, interactive workshops, community work sessions, and high-level meetings with university leaders.

Call for Applications

The Unite! Alliance is pleased to announce the opening of the call for the Unite! Seed Fund 2025, a fund designed to support innovative and collaborative projects among the alliance's member universities. This fund offers financial support to students, researchers, and professors who wish to initiate joint initiatives between at least three Unite! universities (and at least two for student proposals), encouraging collaboration and excellence in education, research, and innovation. The deadline for all submissions is March 20, 2025, with various matchmaking events scheduled to help participants find partners for their projects

hobit talks 2025

Die Darmstädter Hochschul- und Berufsinformationstage „hobit“ bieten auch 2025 wieder Informationen und Orientierung zu Studien- und Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten in Darmstadt und Region. Den Auftakt machen die „hobit talks“ auf hobit.de: Am Mittwoch, 22.01., und Donnerstag, 23.01., können sich tausende Schülerinnen und Schüler ab Klasse 11 online und live von 9 Uhr bis 18.30 Uhr über Zukunftswege informieren. Bei der „hobit contact“ am Dienstag, 20.05., besteht für die jungen Leute dann die Gelegenheit, sich direkt vor Ort ein Bild zu machen.

The fourth call for 5 PhD Fellowships Unite! priority areas is now open until 28 February 2025.

Together with our Alliance, the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) will award 5 PhD Fellowships in 4 Unite! key areas Artificial intelligence , Energy – Batteries, Hydrogen and Smart Cities and Industry 4.0. Applications can be submitted until 28 February 2025.  

First Unite! Online Language Café starts January 15

If you want to learn a new language, you also have to speak it. Language learning theories argue that language learning takes place unconsciously and by chance through exchanges with native speakers or through contact with authentic language use outside the classroom. The Unite! Online Language Café (UOLC) aims to do just that and invites students from all Unite! universities for the first time on 15 January 2025

Unite! Seed Fund Initiative: Unite! Online Language Café

Unite!’s multilingual and multicultural environment provides an excellent setting for informal language learning which, based on language learning theories, can occur unconsciously and incidentally outside the classroom setting through interaction with native speakers or exposure to authentic language. The Unite! Online Language Café (UOLC) is designed to do just that – easily accessible and voluntary. It fosters informal interactions to promote and encourage students to use and learn all Unite! languages. A virtual space, where meetings are planned, the UOLC will be run by students for students starting on 15th January 2025.

Save the date for the XI Unite! Dialogue at UPC in Barcelona!

We are excited to announce that the 11th Unite! Dialogue will take place from February 25-28, 2025, at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC). This Dialogue will bring together the vibrant Unite! community to deepen collaboration among the nine partner universities of the Alliance, fostering innovation and collective growth.