Doctoral Network “Unite!Energy” receives funding as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action

Research for the energy transition: The international Doctoral Network “Unite!Energy”, with the participation of TU Darmstadt, is investigating the use of hydrogen for chemical energy storage. The network is being funded by the EU for four years with around 3.2 million euros. For the first time, all partners of the university alliance Unite! are involved in a joint doctoral network.

Ocean sustainability in the sights of ULISSES

ULisboa is holding the 5th edition of the project and applications are open from 15 November to 15 December. Under the motto ‘Ocean without Plastics’, the initiative aims to creatively develop innovative technological solutions to characterise and mitigate the pollution of the oceans by plastics, guaranteeing biodiversity and the sustainable reuse of these materials in applications with economic value.

Intercomprehension workshop for staff members of all Unite! universities

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. The workshop will take place in December 2024 and January 2025, apply by 30. November.

Expertise of all nine Unite! Universities

The first cohort of PhD candidates has officially begun their studies within this collaborative framework and are already benefitting from a common training offer from the 9 Partner Universities and the most advanced educational programs. Discover the catalogue.

How to use

The Unite! Metacampus is designed for the realisation of courses and lectures within the framework of Unite! in which several Unite! partners work together collaboratively. It enables collaboration in a single system with simple and exclusive access for all Unite! members. A video explains how to get started with the Unite! federated digital learning management system (LMS).

Discover Unite!'s Best Practices Guide

Download the best practices and explore a comprehensive guide to improving work-life quality across the Unite! Alliance, offering inspiration and actionable examples from our nine universities.

Acommon repository available for all the Unite! community

All the exhausting work done by the Virtual Inclusion Office these past years related to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (I.D.E.A.) is now compiled and can be consulted in one platform accessible on Metacampus called “Unite! Network for Inclusion”. By housing these comprehensive resources, this common repository helps drive a coordinated and informed approach to inclusion and diversity across the Unite! alliance. This plays a critical role in fostering a more inclusive environment by offering a wide range of resources designed to promote best practices in diversity and inclusion.

Enabling a European Open Science and Innovation Area

Open to researchers, teachers, students as well as technical and administrative staff, this forum aims to co-create a white paper that will shape national and European science and innovation policies, promoting new university governance models in Widening countries for sustainable knowledge creation and transfer.

Unite! workshop

We invite you to participate in a workshop on Zoom on the 19 and 25 November between 13.00 and 15.00 (CET), to discuss and share ideas about organizing and managing large classes across various disciplines and universities.

Register via the Metacampus space between October 10th and 30th, 2024.

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 between October 10th and 30th, 2024.

Unite!’s first Awards

The X. Unite! Dialogue and the II Unite Branding Event brought together around 500 people from Europe to work together on the vision of a European Campus. This requires a great deal of commitment and dedication, and the Unite! community shows a great deal of this, said TU and Unite! president Tanja Brühl at the presentation of the first Unite! Awards and the Unite! Start-up Award during the closing session of the Dialogue.

Unite! community meets at the TU Darmstadt

From 24 to 26 September 2024, the Unite! community came together for the X Unite! Dialogue at TU Darmstadt, where the alliance was founded five years ago – a good opportunity to look back on what has been achieved so far and look ahead to the future. Around 500 Unite! members and external representatives from science, business, politics and civil society were welcomed to the II Unite Branding Event. The focus was on cooperation between universities and society.

Find partners at the Unite! Seed Fund Ideathon

The call for applications opens on 15 October until 15 December 2024. This time those interested can also apply to participate in the Unite! Seed Fund Ideathon happening at TU Graz in November to connect with potential partners, so that more Unite! projects can become a reality.

European University Alliance comes to Darmstadt

Since its foundation in 2019, TU Darmstadt has been the coordinator of the European University Alliance Unite! The alliance now consists of nine partner universities from Finland to Portugal and meets every six months for internal working meetings to work on the shared vision of a European campus. The next meeting will take place from 24 to 26 September in Darmstadt, the II Unite! Branding Event on 25 September will bring Unite! to life for all TU members and external partners.

TU Darmstadt and Unite! celebrate together

For the first time, the Language Resource Centre of TU Darmstadt is organising the European Day of Languages on 26 September – to coincide with the third day of the Unite! Dialogue, which is also taking place in Darmstadt. Together with the European University Alliance, which consists of nine European partner universities, TU Darmstadt is celebrating Europe's linguistic and cultural diversity and invites its university members and their families to join in.

Unite! honors start-ups for the first time

Unite! meets for the 10th time – and is growing. More members are taking part in the biannual Dialogue, more projects and ideas have emerged and more connections have been made: The Start-up & Innovation Day 2024 (InnoDay24) of the Innovation and Start-up Center HIGHEST at TU Darmstadt concludes the Dialogue and takes the opportunity to also give the start-up scene of the nine partner universities space and to network with each other. For the first time, an international jury of experts will present the Unite! start-up award to the two best start-ups.

Unite! and TU President in an FAZ interview

The X. Dialogue represents another milestone in the five-year history of Unite!. The university alliance is growing, more and more ideas and projects are being implemented and many more connections are being made. TU Darmstadt, coordinator of the university alliance, invites to Darmstadt in September – a good opportunity to take stock. Unite! and TU President Professor Tanja Brühl did just that in an interview with the FAZ.

A self-directed, online and free learning tool designed to deepen your understanding of diversity and inclusion

Do you sometimes feel the world we live in should be more inclusive? And do you feel that your social or work environment is accessible and safe? Can you identify situations that might make you feel uncomfortable or could be improved? Then the “21 Day Diversity and Inclusion Challenge” is for you!

Registration is Open!

From 14th to 18th October 2024, the Unite! Research School will bring together MSc and PhD students, as well as researchers from across Europe, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Industry 4.0, Nuclear Engineering and Sustainable Electronics.

The European university alliance Unite! meets from September 24 to 26 and presents itself to the public

Since its inception five years ago, the Unite! University Network for Innovation, Technology, and Engineering has thrived thanks to the collaborative efforts of its nine partner universities. Under the theme “Inspiring People – Sparking Innovation,” these events aim to emphasise the collaboration between universities and society, as well as to showcase and disseminate the achievements of the alliance to a wider public.