Unite! for ULisses

The international and interdisciplinary project for students enters the second round

2022/02/18

Addressed to students willing to be part of a multidisciplinary team composed by colleagues from other national and foreign universities. During 3 weeks (face-to-face), participants will be encouraged to develop innovative techniques that may contribute to the current challenges of the Oceans sustainability.

The idea of Unite!’s International Project Week has accompanied the alliance from the early stages of our European University. Conceived as a growing family of short-term exchange programs offered to the international community of Unite! students, the initiative started in 2020 with INSPIRED, the International Project Week for Interdisciplinary Research-Oriented Digital Learning at TU Darmstadt. At the same time, the educational concept of the challenge-based research project set in an international environment was transferred to our partner at the ULisboa who developed their own Interdisciplinary Studies on Sustainable Environment and Seas: ULisses.

ULisses takes place both virtually and face-to-face, in Lisboa. Firstly, participants will take part in a preparatory phase (via e-learning), which will be compatible with the classes of the second semester and which will last for 10 weeks. At the end of the preparatory phase, students will get together face-to-face in an international multidisciplinary team, whose task will be to develop innovative techniques that may contribute to the solution of an important challenge related to the sustainability of the Oceans.

The applications for the second edition of the ULisses project are already open and will close by the end of February. In order to clarify any doubts of the participants who would want to participate, there will be two Q&A sessions at different time slots so that everyone can access them.

Curious? Willing to know more and to participate? Here are some important dates and links that can help you:

February 1st – application period starts

February 14th and 15th – Q&A sessions

February 28th – end of application period

March 21st, 2022 – beginning of the Project

Find out how it works

Get to know the organisers and ULisses team

Here is what you will achieve by the end of the project

ULisboa students, as well as those from Unite! partner institutions have special access and admission conditions.

Still curious?

Visit ULisses webpage and get to know better the project or send your questions by e-mail

Start your application process

Unite!

About Unite!

Alongside TU Darmstadt as the coordinator,Unite! (University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering) also includes Aalto University (Finland), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Grenoble Institute of Technology (France), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) and Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).

The seven partner universities aim to use the European University to create a trans-European campus for students and researchers with the involvement of regions and companies. The partners have a total of 167,000 students, already cooperate closely in more than 80 EU projects and have exchanged more than 2,000 students in the past five years. The alliance has set itself the goal of combining courses for the benefit of students, breaking down existing technical and administrative hurdles, and thus significantly increasing student mobility. Research will also benefit from the conditions created for larger and easier cooperation, which will strengthen the competitiveness of the European Higher Education Area overall.