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VI Unite! Dialogue in Turin

With over 250 academic, staff and student participants coming from nine European Universities, the Unite! Alliance sixth Dialogue was just hosted at Politecnico di Torino on September 20-22. The Alliance, which concluded its sixth Dialogue, was recently awarded with additional funding from the European Commission. Together with the University delegations, other main participants were EC representatives, CRUI Rector’s Conference, the main German technical Universities’ network – TU9, plus Torino, Barcelona and Stockholm municipalities and the other five CLUSTER European Alliances.

On European Researchers' Night the Unite! alliance invites you to learn about the transition to sustainable and climate-neutral cities by 2030.

The European Researchers' Night is a Europe-wide public event, which displays the diversity of science and its impact on citizens' daily lives in fun, inspiring ways. This year, the event will take place in 25 countries on Friday 30 September 2022. The Unite! University Alliance is participating.

The Unite! community introduces itself

Unite! is a living and constantly growing alliance. Many people at the seven (soon to be nine) partner universities are working on different projects to make a European University a reality. Who they are and what exactly they do is what we show in the series “Let's Unite! – Get to know…”. This time, students Airi Nevalainen and Joona Huikuri from Aalto University introduce themselves.

The VI Unite! Dialogue is fast approaching

To close the pilot phase of the Erasmus+ project and launch the future activities, the Alliance will hold the VI Unite! Dialogue in Politecnico di Torino, with task force meetings and public plenary sessions.

Open Science Summer School at Aalto University

One of the focus areas of the UNITE.H2020 project is the promotion of open science. Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. It involves sharing ideas, data, methods and results with local, national, regional and global collaborative networks of research participants. It also goes beyond this to encompass the production and use of this scientific knowledge among these collaborative networks.

Auftaktveranstaltung „getTUgether“ am 21. September

Auf dem Campus Stadtmitte, Lichtwiese und Botanischer Garten der TU Darmstadt sind ab dem 21. September 2022 mehrere Sitzbänke als „getTUgether“ Bänke gekennzeichnet. Diese bieten Gelegenheit, einander zu begegnen, in den Austausch zu kommen – oder ganz einfach ein Gespräch zu führen.

Apply now online till October 7, 2022

Great opportunity: The Deutschlandstipendium offers students 300 euros per month, for at least one year and independent of BAföG. In addition, scholarship holders get in contact with representatives of industry and society and can start forming their own network.

Members of all Unite! partner universities visit the new partner in Poland

Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw Tech), which together with the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have recently joined the Unite! alliance, hosted the last meeting of representatives of all Unite! Steering Committee. This body of the alliance integrates the so-called Key Liaison Officers (KLO) along with their deputies, and it is responsible for the coordination and continuous development of the alliance, as well as for cooperation between the partner universities, comprising the representatives from all partners.