Unite!4Future 2nd call winners revealed

The winning project was the “Unite! Arts & Sports festival”, which was announced last week during the Unite! Summer Community Event in Stockholm

2022/06/23

In the Unite! 4Future competition, mixed student teams from all Unite! partner universities compete against each other with their ideas for the university of the future. The second round of the competition was won by the team “Unite! Arts & Sports Festival”. The award ceremony took place last week during the Unite! Summer Community Event in Stockholm last week.

The Unite! Arts & Sports festival winning team, is composed by students of 4 Unite! partner universities, namely Grenoble INP-UGA, UPC, ULisboa and KTH. The team presented a project proposal to strengthen students participation and cooperation across all the universities of the alliance in a form of a festival, including arts and sports activities which would allow to strengthen Unite! students' sense of belonging to a global European university.

Here is the Unite! Arts & Sports festival project presentation:

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The Unite!4Future Programme's main goal is to attract the participation of students from the seven alliance partner universities with the aim of calling for creative ideas about what can be expected at a university of the future. With a competition format, in a bottom-up approach, Unite!4Future will enable student participation by presenting concrete, original and implementable ideas that bring added value for all Unite! community. The projects are non-academic, but related to all other aspects of university student experience and daily life on campus.

The winner of the Unite!4Future 2nd call will:

  • Obtain support by one technical advisor to help you in order to turn your idea into an implementable project
  • Design an implementable project plan
  • One “Unite!4Future week” at Grenoble INP | UGA.
  • All travel expenses included (transport, accommodation, food and activities).Become part of the Unite! new generation of European students
  • Share experiences and multicultural values

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.