Unite! Round Table on 29 April 2025

TU Uniter members will meet on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 11:00-13:00, Building S1/01, Karolinenplatz 5 (Room 707) for their regular Round Table. This time, the event will take place in two parts, hybrid and in person.

Landesprogramme Hessen:Massachusetts und Hessen:Wisconsin

Recognising International Students and Doctoral Candidates

The International Student Services Team announces that nominations for the DAAD Prize 2025 are now open. Until May 15th, professors and staff can propose outstanding international students and doctoral candidates. This prestigious award, which comes with a €1000 endowment, acknowledges excellent academic achievements and exceptional commitment.

Digital event for Master students

Are you curious how it is to be a researcher? Are you considering doing a doctoral degree? Meet researchers who have taken this path as they share what motivated them to pursue a doctoral degree and how research has shaped their careers. On April the 8th you can meet with researchers from the Unite! universities who will tell you about their doctoral studies, what made them decide to pursue a PhD, what it is like to be a researcher and what opportunities might open up for you after your doctoral studies.

Apply!

The application phase for the graduation scholarship is open from 1 to 15 April

Stipendien für einen Forschungsaufenthalt in den USA für Promovierende

Dates of the orientation & social programmes are now online!

The International Student Services Team is getting ready for the Kick-Off Days, an orientation programme designed to help new international students make a smooth transition into life in Germany and their studies at the university. Besides the orientation days, there are going to be numerous social and cultural events. You can now find an overview of these events on the Kick-Off website!

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.

Study Abroad Information Fair May 7 at Karo5

On May 7, 2025, the International Office will host this year's Go Out Country Fair, featuring an International Partner Day. In the afternoon, an information fair will take place in the lounge and foyer of Karo5, offering a wide range of opportunities for studying abroad in Europe and around the world.

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.

Bewerbungsfrist 28. Februar 2025!

Interessieren Sie sich für ein Praktikum in einem der lebenswertesten Länder der Welt? Möchten Sie praktische Berufserfahrung innerhalb Ihres Studiums sammeln und dabei Ihr Englisch/Französisch aufbessern? Dann ist das Internship Programm der Deutsch-Kanadischen Gesellschaft genau das Richtige für Sie.

Unite! Visiting Professorship Programme 2025

In 2025, the Unite! Visiting Professorship Programme continues to aim at attracting outstanding international talents to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and didactic innovation through international experience. It is open to all subjects represented at TU Darmstadt. Up to 13 visiting professorships could be financially supported. The target group are primarily experienced postdocs. The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2025.

Incoming exchange students, sign up now!