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.

TU Darmstadt stärkt Dialogkultur unter Studierenden

Die TU Darmstadt zieht eine positive Bilanz ihrer Premiere des Dialogformats „My University Talks“. Die innovative Gesprächsplattform brachte Studierende mit unterschiedlichen Ansichten zusammen und förderte einen offenen, respektvollen Austausch zu kontroversen Themen. Insgesamt nahmen 154 Studierende an dem Format teil, die sich jeweils bis zu drei Stunden lang intensiv unterhielten.

Unite! students call for Improvement of the European rail systems

Europe is at a decisive crossroads in its pursuit of sustainability, with rail transport poised to reclaim its position as a cornerstone of mobility. The U!Train initiative brought together students from nine European universities to confront the challenges and unlock the potential of rail travel. During a collaborative mapathon last september, 28 students identified over 200 points of interest across the European rail network, highlighting areas that urgently need improvement. The culmination of these efforts is the U! Train Manifesto, a set of actionable recommendations aimed at transforming rail transport for a more sustainable and connected Europe.

Ocean sustainability in the sights of ULISSES

ULisboa is holding the 5th edition of the project and applications are open from 15 November to 15 December. Under the motto ‘Ocean without Plastics’, the initiative aims to creatively develop innovative technological solutions to characterise and mitigate the pollution of the oceans by plastics, guaranteeing biodiversity and the sustainable reuse of these materials in applications with economic value.

Awards presented for international students

This year's German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) prize for outstanding achievements by international students at TU Darmstadt goes to Anna Klyushina, at the time of nomination a student on the Master's degree programme in Mechatronics with a specialisation in Robotics. The award, endowed with 1,000 euros, was presented at a ceremony at which the recipients of international scholarships from TU Darmstadt were also honoured.

Rapid team from TU Darmstadt successfully participates in rocket competition

The university group TU Darmstadt Space Technology e.V. (TUDSaT e.V.) made an extraordinary debut with its rocket ‘FRoDO-M’ in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC) competition. At the event, which brought together student teams from across Europe in Ponte de Sor, Portugal, the Darmstadt group secured third place among 26 participating teams in the ‘Three kilometres with a commercial rocket motor’ category with its precise flight performance.