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.

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.

Call for Applications

The Unite! Alliance is pleased to announce the opening of the call for the Unite! Seed Fund 2025, a fund designed to support innovative and collaborative projects among the alliance's member universities. This fund offers financial support to students, researchers, and professors who wish to initiate joint initiatives between at least three Unite! universities (and at least two for student proposals), encouraging collaboration and excellence in education, research, and innovation. The deadline for all submissions is March 20, 2025, with various matchmaking events scheduled to help participants find partners for their projects

The fourth call for 5 PhD Fellowships Unite! priority areas is now open until 28 February 2025.

Together with our Alliance, the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) will award 5 PhD Fellowships in 4 Unite! key areas Artificial intelligence , Energy – Batteries, Hydrogen and Smart Cities and Industry 4.0. Applications can be submitted until 28 February 2025.  

First Unite! Online Language Café starts January 15

If you want to learn a new language, you also have to speak it. Language learning theories argue that language learning takes place unconsciously and by chance through exchanges with native speakers or through contact with authentic language use outside the classroom. The Unite! Online Language Café (UOLC) aims to do just that and invites students from all Unite! universities for the first time on 15 January 2025

Submit your ideas for the 2nd Unite!-Ed Future Conference

The 2nd Unite!-Ed Future Conference – Reimagining Education for AI ready graduates – will be a showcase for Seed Funding Projects and a matchmaking event for those interested in joint teaching and joint programmes. The conference offers an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas with focus on, for example, interaction in digital and hybrid learning environments, student-centered learning and various aspects of sustainable development. The conference will be online via Zoom, on March 13.

Unite! Seed Fund Initiative: Unite! Online Language Café

Unite!’s multilingual and multicultural environment provides an excellent setting for informal language learning which, based on language learning theories, can occur unconsciously and incidentally outside the classroom setting through interaction with native speakers or exposure to authentic language. The Unite! Online Language Café (UOLC) is designed to do just that – easily accessible and voluntary. It fosters informal interactions to promote and encourage students to use and learn all Unite! languages. A virtual space, where meetings are planned, the UOLC will be run by students for students starting on 15th January 2025.

Save the date for the XI Unite! Dialogue at UPC in Barcelona!

We are excited to announce that the 11th Unite! Dialogue will take place from February 25-28, 2025, at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC). This Dialogue will bring together the vibrant Unite! community to deepen collaboration among the nine partner universities of the Alliance, fostering innovation and collective growth.

Unite! students call for Improvement of the European rail systems

Europe is at a decisive crossroads in its pursuit of sustainability, with rail transport poised to reclaim its position as a cornerstone of mobility. The U!Train initiative brought together students from nine European universities to confront the challenges and unlock the potential of rail travel. During a collaborative mapathon last september, 28 students identified over 200 points of interest across the European rail network, highlighting areas that urgently need improvement. The culmination of these efforts is the U! Train Manifesto, a set of actionable recommendations aimed at transforming rail transport for a more sustainable and connected Europe.

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.