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Strong coordination from European Commission needed to advance European Degree, says higher education consortium
2024/04/22
ED-AFFICHE, a leading higher education consortium piloting the European Degree, is calling on the European Commission to take a proactive role in coordinating collaboration between all major actors across the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to make
ED-AFFICHE is a powerhouse consortium of 51 higher education institutions (HEIs) from six European Universities alliances (Una Europa, 4EU+, CHARM-EU, EC2U, EU-CONEXUS, Unite!). In consultation with higher education ministries, quality assurance agencies, students and employers, the consortium has spent the past year co-developing a vision for the European Degree and identifying concrete steps towards its realisation as an instrument to overcome existing legislative and administrative obstacles to developing transnational joint degrees in Europe. Now, the consortium calls on the European Commission to develop processes to support the continuation and scaling up of the close collaboration initiated under ED-AFFICHE and all European Degree pilot experimentation projects.
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Unite! PhD Fellowships
2024/04/08
PhD fellowships in three Unite! focus areas
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa), in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and together with Unite!, is awarding 10 PhD fellowships in three Unite! focus areas for the third time, other areas are not excluded. The third call for applications runs until April 30, 2024.
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Finding the right partner
2024/03/18
Seed Fund virtual matchmaking event
103 participants from all 9 universities met to present their ideas for Seed Fund projects and look for the right partner to submit their proposals.
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Let´s Unite! in Graz
2024/02/23
Livestreams for the Unite! Dialogue
The Dialogues are meant to be for the whole community to meet and discuss – even virtual. TU Graz has put together livestreams for a selection of meetings.
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Guest professors at TU Darmstadt
2024/02/09
Unite! visiting professorship program
The Unite! visiting professorship program aims to attract 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 are to be financially supported. The target group are primarily experienced postdocs. The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2024.
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“Think beyond and create a sustainable impact” – The IX Unite! Dialogue at TU Graz
2024/02/01
As part of a Unite! seed funded project, researchers and scientists from KTH Stockholm, TU Darmstadt and TU Graz focus on joint training, hands-on collaboration and new insights in the field of renewable biotechnology.
Graz University of Technology is hosting the upcoming Unite! Dialogue, titled "Think Beyond: Unite! for Collective and Sustainable Impact”, scheduled to take place from the 27th to the 29th of February 2024.
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Contributing to the European Research Area
2024/01/29
UNITE.H2020 comes to an end – UNITE!Widening begins
The UNITE.H2020 project has shaped an integrated R&I strategy for the European University Alliance Unite!, concluding in December 2023. The follow-up UNITE!Widening project, starting in January 2024, aims to strengthen scientific capabilities in Portugal and Poland, highlighted in a Lisbon meeting on February 1st and 2nd.
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Practice your languages with the Unite! Language Tandems!
2024/01/29
Spanish, Catalan, German, Italian, French, Swedish, Finnish, Portuguese, Polish… Do you want to improve your speaking skills in any of these languages? With the Unite! Language Tandems, you now can!
Language Tandems offer you the possibility to practice any of the Unite! languages with another student from the Unite! community. It is a great opportunity for you to develop speaking skills in a language you want to improve in, while also meeting other students and widening your international network!
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Second Call: Unite! Seed Fund 2024
2024/01/04
Matchmaking event helps with team building
This time those interested can participate in a virtual matchmaking event to connect with potential partners, so that more Unite! projects can become a reality. The next call will start on 15 January 2024.
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Sustainability in Teaching Pedagogical Course
2023/12/21
Now Open for Unite! Faculty
The course “Sustainability in Teaching” provides theoretical knowledge about sustainability education and practical examples that help to integrate sustainability into your own teaching. Registrations are possible until 2 February 2024.
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Inovalo360 – Winter School for Innovation and Valorisation
2023/12/21
Grenoble INP – UGA offers with this Winter School a programme that supports students in disseminating, transferring and protecting their own research results. The registration deadline is 16 January 2024.
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CoDaS Master’s Programme in Communications and Data Science
2023/12/19
Application period open
CoDaS, one of the first joint degree programmes offered by the Unite! alliance, has been granted the prestigious Erasmus Mundus funding by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union in 2023. The application period for studies starting in autumn 2024 is currently ongoing from 4 Dec 2023 to 19 Jan 2024.
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Unite! workshop drives collaborative progress in renewable biotechnology
2023/12/12
As part of a Unite! seed funded project, researchers and scientists from KTH Stockholm, TU Darmstadt and TU Graz focus on joint training, hands-on collaboration and new insights in the field of renewable biotechnology.
Sustainable processes for the utilization of carbon dioxide and biomass as future resource base of the industry will highly influence the circular bioeconomy. TU Graz, KTH and TU Darmstadt already hold a strong position in the field of renewable biotechnology, including microbial and enzymatic CO2 utilization and the biocatalytic synthesis of high-value products and commodities. Together they want to unite and expand the biotechnology division within European universities.
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The Ulisses! Project is back!
2023/12/12
University of Lisbon Interdisciplinary Studies on Sustainable Environment and Seas (ULISSES) is a project that will provide students with a deep knowledge of ocean related problems. Applications for the 4th edition of the Ulisses project are open until 15 December.
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Doctoral Research Grant opportunities in three Unite! priority areas
2023/12/12
ULisboa in collaboration with Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and together with Unite! will award nine PhD Fellowships in three Unite! priority areas, although not excluding others areas.
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Building up a European Open Science and Innovation University
2023/12/05
The research work led by Rubén Vicente Sáez for Unite! European University Alliance culminated on October 24-25,2023 at Aalto University with the final Open Science Policy Forum.
In the Unite! H2020 project strategic tools and policy guidelines have been developed to advance the modernization of R&I governance models at universities in the digital era. The research work led by Rubén Vicente Sáez for Unite! European University Alliance culminated on October 24-25,2023 at Aalto University with the final Open Science Policy Forum that also gathered stakeholders from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. This was the fifth and final policy forum that have taken place in different Unite! universities around Europe involving researchers, staff, university managers, and decision makers. The aim of the final policy forum was to explore how the new university open science and innovation governance model developed in the project can contribute to the solving of grand societal challenges and be scaled-up at European level.
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Discover the first Unite! common R&I Agenda
2023/11/30
UNITE.H2020 team worked on the first set of common objectives and activities
Based on the shared Alliance R&I strategic approach, and in line with the European Commission, Member States and Regional research agendas, the Unite! R&I Agenda defines a set of common Research and Technology Transfer & Innovation objectives. The long-term vision of each partner converges into the Agenda, where the partners’ strengths are combined to reach a “whole beyond its parts”, towards a joint R&I strategy.
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Read other Germanic languages!
2023/11/28
Intercomprehension workshop for Unite! staff members
Intercomprehension is the competence or strategy to understand languages that we haven’t learned yet, but that are part of the same language family of a language we already know. In the workshop, intercomprehension as a strategy will be explained and tested. By using specific strategies, understanding texts in Dutch, German, Swedish or other Germanic languages will be suddenly much easier. Furthermore, intercomprehension introduces an easy way to learn reading a new language of the same language family autonomously. The workshop will take place in the first half of December 2023, apply by 29. November.
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Level up your outreach & communication skills
2023/11/07
The aim of this webinar, which will take place online on 21th November from 5pm to 7pm, is to offer undergraduate, master's and doctoral Unite! students the tools and resources to improve their outreach and communication skills. Apply before 15th November
Level up your outreach skills: power networking and cool communication for students is the title of the first Unite! Outreach training. The activity is for the alliance students interested in improving their communication skills when working with non-specialised audiences, such as future students, civil society organisations, citizens, small and medium-sized enterprises or public administrations.
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Unite! Workshop Series “Paving the Way for the Future”
2023/11/07
Unite! has now available a series of online workshops to the entire academic community in order to reduce the barriers to human resources motivation, equality, career progress, and reward
These workshops are based on an analysis of best practices and existing policies for Human Resources Strategies for Researchers (HRS4R) in research and academia, policies and measures to eliminate brain drain and to strengthen knowledge circulation, barriers to equal inclusion and effective strategies to attract, assess and reward researchers.