The Unite! Seed Fund is financial support for innovative ideas from academic, research staff, and students from network universities.
Our researchers and students can benefit from another Unite! project – the Seed Fund is aimed at supporting research and work on attractive and diverse activities. It aims to help secure additional funding for the implementation of joint, ambitious, and innovative ideas and concepts within Unite!
Qualification stages for the Seed Fund Initiative
The goal of Unite! is to create an innovative organization focused on collaboration, promoting integration, and sustainable development. Acting in the spirit of ambition related to the practical implementation of excellence in teaching, scientific research, and innovation by creating new opportunities, Unite! invites the entire alliance community (teaching staff, academic units, researchers and research units, as well as students and student organizations) to submit proposals for joint projects to the first round of funding action within the Seed Fund.
Funding opportunities are available for all topics and ideas implemented in various forms, such as those requiring personal involvement of the parties involved, hybrid, and those intended to operate exclusively in the digital domain.
- The Seed Fund Initiative is a new project of the Unite! network, stimulating and supporting grassroots initiatives of academic teachers, researchers, and students related to joint actions. This initiative can help in creating sustainable academic and student communities throughout the alliance,” says Andreas Winkler, Secretary-General of Unite!
- The seed nature of this funding creates opportunities to activate and stimulate co-creative activities, such as joint research projects, study offers, intensive blended learning courses, extracurricular or intercultural activities organized by students, long-term cooperation projects in academic and/or research units, such as workshops or symposia,” adds Dr. Anshika Suri, Director of the Seed Fund.
Every year, Unite! will organize one call for applications for the Seed Fund Initiative program to finance activities in the field of teaching and learning as well as scientific research and doctoral studies. In addition, the Unite! Seed Fund will organize a call for proposals for student activities every two years. Funding decisions should be made by June 30, 2023.
Important dates:
Funding applications can be submitted via the Metacampus platform:
for student activity topics – by May 15,
for teaching and learning topics – by May 31,
for scientific research and doctoral topics – by May 31.
Detailed information regarding the application procedure is available on the Fund Section website.
Interested individuals can also email Dr. Anshika Suri.
Unite! (University Network for Innovation, Technology, and Engineering) is a network of nine leading European technical universities representing various regions of our continent. Its goal is to develop a new model of European university education, including through joint teaching programs and a flexible study path.
