Unite!4Future Student Competition

Share your vision of the university of the future and win a trip to Lisboa

2021/06/25

Gather a team of students in Unite! universities, prepare a video with you vision of the university of the future, and compete with other teams to win an all-expenses-paid trip to ULisboa for the Unite!4Future Week.

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.

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The main goals of this award/week are:

✔ Obtain support by one technical advisor to help you in order to turn your idea into an implementable project

✔ One “Unite!4Future week” at ULisboa.

✔ All travel expenses included (transport, accommodation, food and activities).

At the end of the competition the winning team will be awarded with:

✔ Design an implementable project plan

✔ Become part of the Unite! new generation of European students

✔ Share experiences and multicultural values

✔ Be part of a wonderful week full of activities including a social programme to enjoy the city


Participation requirements

Students must be enrolled in one of Unite! universities (TU Darmstadt, Aalto University, KTH Sweden, Grenoble INP-UGA, PoliTO, Ulisboa or UPC Barcelona). Applications must be submitted in English. These are the requirements you need to set up your team, build your idea and apply to the Unite!4Future Programme:

  • Each team must include students from at least 3 Unite! partner universities
  • Students must be full degree students enrolled in at least one of the Unite! Partner universities
  • The application must address at least one call topic
  • All project activities must be designed with the possibility of being applicable in all the team’s Unite! Universities.
  • The application must include:

✔ team application form

✔ project description in video format (10 min max)


Informative session

Do you have any questions about the competition? Join the open informative session and solve all your doubts!

6th July, 15:00 (CET)

Link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/87869610413

Meeting ID: 878 6961 0413

No registration required.


How to enroll

Download the Unite!4Future applicant guide (opens in new tab)

The registration will be carried through the Unite! Metacampus. Previous registration to the Metacampus is required to access the contest's registration, as well as other Unite! courses offered through the platform. Each team must include students from at least 3 Unite! alliance partner universities (Aalto University, Espoo/Helsinki; KTH Royal Instituto of Technology, Stockholm; Technical University of Darmstadt; Grenoble INP-UGA; Politecnico di Torino; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech; Universidade de Lisboa). Students will be able to contact other students from Unite! alliance partner universities through the Metacampus' Student Co-creation Unite!4Future Community (forthcoming).

The proposals should be designed to contribute to the life and activities of the Unite! alliance partner universities and must address at least one of the key topics:

  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Environment and sustainability
  • Academic experience, mobility and languages
  • Digitalization

Contact Point

Further questions can be addressed via Metacampus or through the contact point at each Unite! alliance partner universities. All e-mail messages to the contact points should indicate 'Unite!4Future' in the Subject.

Your contact point for TU Darmstadt is .

Contact Points for all Unite!-Partners