U!Train Intensive Programme
An innovative Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) under the Erasmus+ Programme, organised by Unite! on the themes of entrepreneurship, sustainability and multiculturalism. This course includes an online preparation phase, activities in Darmstadt and during the train journey to Graz, followed by academic work and team building in Graz.
Until 10 February 2025, the organisation is looking for lecturers from all of Unite!'s partner universities to take part in designing this course. If you have an interest in these areas, this is an excellent opportunity to participate in the creation of this programme from scratch, so that it not only equips students with technical and entrepreneurial skills, stimulates creativity, innovation and initiative, but also promotes intercultural collaboration and contributes to sustainable development goals. The face-to-face part of the course will take place in Graz in the first week of September and the teachers who take part will receive an Erasmus+ teaching mobility grant to fund their travel. It's an opportunity to internationalise your career and forge closer ties with colleagues from Unite!'s partner universities.
Submit your ideas for boosting the course themes and help identify professors and academic experts who are passionate about these topics and ready to participate.
Unite! Seed Fund 2025 - call for applications
The deadline for all submissions is 20 March 2025, with various matchmaking events scheduled to help participants find partners for their projects
The Unite! Seed Fund 2025 is 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.
Research & PhD and Teaching & Learning proposals must address on the Unite! Focus Areas: Sustainable Energy; Artificial Intelligence; Industry 4.0; Entrepreneurship; Engineering Biology (and Biotechnology); Space; Cybersecurity; and Sustainable Cities & Water.
Proposals will be evaluated based on their overall quality, sustainability and long-term perspectives, and potential impact.
Ciências at Unite!
The Faculty of Sciences actively participates, through the University of Lisbon, in the initiative Unite! - University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering, an Alliance of European Universities (nine for the time being) with the aim of continuing the creation of a European Higher Education Space, which, through a new generation of Europeans, committed to transnational, transdisciplinary and multilingual cooperation, will be able to address major societal challenges, thus contributing to affirming Europe's leadership as a knowledge space.
Programs and activities for students
As a student of one of the 9 partner universities, you’re a Unite! student.
Think: easy pathways to courses, joint programmes and exciting extracurricular activities and collaborations.
Unite! is packed with opportunities to grow, internationalise, and connect with fellow students across Europe.Unite! offers courses and joint programmes on technology, multi-disciplinary topics, languages, and culture. We also provide funding for building extra-curricular activities with other Unite! students.
Note: Applicants should check with their home university to ensure that the ECTS specified are recognised in their own study programme.
Call for PhD Fellowships Unite! ULisboa 2024 2nd semester
Until 28 February 2025, the call for PhD Fellowships under the European University Unite! programme is open, under the collaboration agreement between ULisboa and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
Under the protocol with FCT, ULisboa opens the Call for the PhD Fellowships Unite! in three Unite! priority areas, although not excluding other areas:
- Energy conversion and storage (photovoltaics, wind, batteries, hydrogen)
- Artificial intelligence
- Industry 4.0
Programs and activities for staff
Unite! Visiting Professorship Program - Open Call
Up to 13 visiting professorships are to be financially supported. Applications are now open!
In the first step, interested candidates from Unite! partner universities are encouraged to contact departments and institutes directly or through the KLO team at TU Darmstadt. The candidates should submit a brief biography along with a letter of intent outlining potential courses they could teach at TU Darmstadt and ideas for possible research collaborations.
In the second step, interested departments and institutes at TU Darmstadt should submit a short application by 31 March 2025, via mail to firstname.lastname@example.org including:
- a statement about the added value of teaching at TU Darmstadt and for Unite!
- a proposal for a suitable candidate in form of a recommendation letter (max. 1 - 1 ½ pages)
- an academic curriculum vitae, doctoral certificate and, if existing, postdoctoral qualification to teach at professorial level (recruitment requirements according to § 68 HessHG)
The successful candidates for the visiting professorships will be announced by the end of April 2025.
If you are faculty or staff of one of the 9 Unite! partner universities, then you are already part of the Unite! community!
Whatever your position within Unite! universities, you can find something of interest for teachers and researchers, administrative and technical staff and young researchers.
What can you do?
As a member of Unite!, you'll find yourself inspired by others to improve your work, sharing knowledge and best practices with academics and staff from all over Europe, and collaborating with research groups to complement your projects.
From innovative pedagogical methodologies to transforming teaching, learning, and research at universities, Unite! is your gateway to gaining international experience and forging new connections.
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- Digital Campus: Hugo Miranda
- Diversity, Inclusion and Well-being: Cláudio Pina Fernandes
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- Flexible Educational Offering: Nuno Matela
- Doctoral Education for Research and Innovative and Society: Ana Prata / Killian Lobato
- An Open Inovative Community for Green Transition: Jorge Maia Alves / Margarida Santos-Reis
- Strategic Outreach, Impact and Dissemination: Pedro Almeida
- One of the 17 European University Building Pilot Projects funded by the European Commission for the triennium 2019-21
- Aims to motivate a new generation of European students through a comprehensive education, extending to a broad spectrum of disciplines such as arts, design, business, humanities and social sciences, in addition to the common core in science and engineering, which was at the basis of its creation
- Plans to create a network of European universities, which will enable its students to obtain a degree combining studies in several EU countries - to this end, it will develop a holistic approach to mobility (virtual and physical) with flexible study paths, joint curricula and integrated mobility for students of all levels
- Will create a joint physical and virtual campus for the development of trans-European educational pathways, based on innovative inter-university teams and sharing their teaching, research and innovation resources
- Will pioneer new concepts of education through innovative pedagogies as well as by promoting joint doctoral studies involving teaching, research, innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Unite! is a strategic, dynamic and inclusive European University Alliance in the fields of innovation, technology and engineering, based on shared values, a common vision and mutual trust.
- Mobility for all students, extending to new short-term programmes, summer schools and joint programmes
- Mobility for all employees, including thematic weeks and a pilot teaching community that will test innovative teaching processes
- Virtual campus, including a digital platform for mobility, virtual spaces and online tools
- Teaching and Learning Academy, to help teachers and students develop models for flexible study paths and innovative education
- Trans-regional network for innovation and entrepreneurship, including sharing of local and regional education, support services for future entrepreneurs and contributing to the development of regional development strategies.