Training in the Field of Open Science and Research Data Management

The network Unite! and Aalto University invite you to the third cycle of training sessions on open science and research data management. Scientists, students, and staff are welcome to participate.

One of the goals of the Unite! network is to enhance competencies in the field of open science at partner universities and more broadly in society.

Aalto University’s Data Agents are a group of research-oriented university staff who support researchers and students in matters related to research data management. In the last academic year, approximately 2000 people registered for their training cycles.

The spring series includes topics such as:

Artificial intelligence and research work,
OER policy for higher education,
Exploring AI analysis of qualitative data,
Privacy in speech technology research,
Archiving data collected from people.

For more information, visit the Aalto University website.

TU Darmstadt, as part of the Unite! program, invites visiting doctoral researchers.

Financial Support for Up to 13 Visiting Professors

Financial support will be provided for a maximum of 13 visiting professors. The target group primarily consists of experienced postdoctoral researchers. The application deadline is March 31, 2024.

The “Visiting Professor” program aims to attract outstanding international talents to promote interdisciplinary teaching and innovative teaching methods through international experience. It is open to all subjects taught at TU Darmstadt.

This is a new format of strategic cooperation between Unite! and partner universities. It promotes networking among academic communities and supports the career development of visiting scholars. Additionally, students benefit from internationally-oriented teaching. The program is primarily aimed at experienced doctors, although individuals at an advanced stage of their career (lecturers, professors) may also apply.

Visiting professors from partner universities offer supplementary courses (optional) at TU Darmstadt, preferably on innovative topics. Starting from the winter semester of 2024/25, the term should cover the teaching period from mid-October to mid-February and can be established for a maximum of two years.

Funding

TU Darmstadt will cover all costs from state funds, with half of the costs covered by the university and the other half from the hosting department. Additionally, the gross monthly income of visiting professors is €6,630 plus approximately 20% social security contribution paid by the employer (from April 1, 2024).

How to Apply?

Applications should be submitted through the departments at TU Darmstadt where the visiting professor will be teaching, by submitting a short application containing:

a written statement about the added value of teaching at TU Darmstadt and for Unite!,
a recommendation letter proposing a suitable candidate (max. 1 – 1.5 pages),
academic CV, proof of degree, and, where applicable, postdoctoral qualifications of the candidate for teaching at the professorial level (recruitment requirements according to § 68 HessHG).

The selection of funded visiting professors will be announced by the end of May 2024.

For More Information and Contact

Applications must be submitted by March 31, 2024, to the email address unite@tu-darmstadt.de
For further inquiries, please contact: Dr.-Ing. Nebojša Čamprag (Directorate VIII), nebojsa.camprag@tu-darmstadt.de

Unite! Seed Fund 2024

Until March 15th, you can submit your applications for the Unite! Seed Fund 2024 program. Individuals interested in participating and seeking partners for their projects can join a virtual event on February 16th to present their ideas.

The Unite! Seed Fund aims to maximize the potential of the consortium. It is expected to provide financial support to innovative, co-creative, and collaboration-based ideas from scientists, researchers, and students across the community.

Through the Fund, the alliance supports the exploration and development of attractive and diverse activities and projects, helps secure additional funding for projects, or facilitates collaboration on joint, ambitious, and innovative ideas. Funding is open to all subjects and topics and is directed towards both in-person, hybrid, and purely digital formats.

Are you looking for partners for your project?

One of the main challenges facing applicants seeking support from the fund is finding potential international partners within Unite!.

To address this issue, a virtual matchmaking event is scheduled for February 16th, 2024, from 14:00 to 16:00 CET, during which interested parties can present their projects to find partners or explore projects and applicants seeking partners.

The event will cover all three lines of funding (student activities, teaching and learning, research and doctoral studies). It is open to the entire Unite! community (faculty, teaching units, researchers, students, and student associations).

If you have a project idea you would like to present, please submit a brief summary (100 words) and contact information to seedfund@unite-university.eu no later than February 11th, 2024.

Additional information:

The call for proposals is open from January 15th to March 15th, 2024, via email to seedfund@unite-university.eu.
A decision on funding is expected to be made by June 2024.
Further information can be found on the Unite! website.
Inquiries and details can be obtained by contacting Dr. Anshika Suri and Konrad Löbcke at seedfund@unite-university.eu or by contacting the Unite! Student Coordinator, Katarzyna Sławińska-Oleszek.

Expand your communication skills and reach out to others with Unite!

The seminar is aimed at students and doctoral candidates who want to gain new tools and resources to improve communication and reach others with their message. The seminar will take place online on November 21st. Participation is free, but registration is required.

The topic of the first seminar for students as part of the Unite! Outreach training is networking and effective communication. The training is aimed at alliance students interested in enhancing their communication skills when working with non-specialized audiences, such as prospective students, public organizations, residents, small and medium-sized enterprises, or public administration.

The session aims to identify and understand the possibilities of working with these audiences and to learn effective dissemination and co-creation techniques. Participants will analyze and evaluate methods proposed by trainers in practical and real-life cases related to the context of social responsibility in engineering and technology. Through these exercises, they will gain tools and knowledge to achieve excellent results in outreach and communication. The session will also include group work and participant presentations.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Date: November 21st, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Registration: Until November 15th, via the: Unite! Agora platform

Training: Online via Zoom in English.

Additional information on the website (https://www.unite-university.eu/unitenews/level-up-your-outreach-communication-skills)

Participants will receive an Open Badge certificate confirming their participation in the training.

Another opportunity for student initiative funding from Unite! Seed Fund!

Only until December 15th, proposals are being collected for funding student initiatives under the Unite! Seed Fund!

This is the second edition of this project, where you can apply for support for a student project in the amount of up to €20,000.

What is the Unite! Seed Fund?

The Unite! Seed Fund helps finance ideas coming from the Unite! community – from students, researchers, and academic staff of the nine universities belonging to the network. This fund offers financial support to promote collaboration between at least two universities.

What can the Seed Fund offer to students?

Qualified projects can be on any subject or topic outside the curriculum that adds value to students and strengthens collaboration between them. Possible ideas include joint projects such as exhibitions, events, trips, competitions, hackathons, courses on Metacampus; in areas such as innovation, sports, career, language, education, communication, information activities, or any other promising idea.

Who can apply?

Undergraduate and postgraduate students (including doctoral students). Applicants must ensure student status until the end of the project.
Student organizations/associations.
Units and centers of student activity (such as sports associations, language centers, etc.).
What can funding be used for?

Eligible costs:

Personnel costs related to organizational tasks (only for staff employed by the university).
Student assistants (defined as possible to be employed by the university).
Travel costs: preferred sustainable travel methods (if possible, use trains instead of planes!).

Other costs:

Such as: material resources, research materials, on-site workshops/hybrid workshops, external services (e.g., moderators, language services).

Detailed information about the Fund, including the application form, can be found on the project’s website or with the Unite! Student Coordinator – Katarzyna Sławińska-Oleszek.

Doctoral scholarships from Unite! are waiting to be taken!

Under the cooperation agreement between the University of Lisbon (ULisboa) [https://www.ulisboa.pt/en], FCT [https://www.fct.pt/en/], and Unite!, the call for doctoral scholarships for research has been launched.

The University of Lisbon (ULisboa), in collaboration with the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and in conjunction with Unite! (https://www.unite-university.eu/), will award 15 doctoral scholarships in three priority areas. These areas are:

Energy conversion and storage (photovoltaics, wind, batteries, hydrogen)
Artificial intelligence
Industry 4.0

The foundational research work for the grants will be conducted at the University of Lisbon and another partner institution within the Unite! alliance. The grants will be financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the FCT-UNITE protocol.

All application procedures, including submission, evaluation, result notification, preliminary interviews, claims, and appeals, are conducted exclusively online. The application period runs from July 20th to August 21st, 2023.

Additional details can be found on the website (https://www.unite-university.eu/unitenews/doctoral-research-grant-opportunities-in-three-unite-priority-areas).

New initiative – Unite! Seed Fund.

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.

Unite! Student Festival Lisbon 2023. Go to Portugal and represent Wrocław Tech

29 czerwca w Lizbonie pierwszy Unite! Student Festival – wydarzenie z udziałem studentów z dziewięciu uczelni partnerskich należących do sojuszu Unite!.

Gospodarzem festiwalu, zaplanowanym o czwartku 29 czerwca do soboty 1 lipca, jest Uniwersytet Lizboński.

Formuła wydarzenia łączy w sobie zabawę, międzykulturowość, współpracę i sprzyja budowaniu społeczności. Organizatorzy zadbali o różne aktywności w programie, takie jak beverage sightseeing czy ognisko na kampusie, a także liczne debaty i warsztaty pozwalające na nawiązanie kontaktów ze studentami z całej Europy.

Reprezentuj PWr!

Każda z dziewięciu uczelni sojuszu będzie reprezentowana przez grupę około 20 studentów.

Reprezentantów wybiera uczelnia na podstawie zgłoszeń poprzez platformę Unite! – Metacampus.

Aplikować może każdy student niezależnie od roku studiów – zarówno studenci I stopnia, II stopnia oraz studiów doktoranckich czy Szkoły Doktorskiej. Udział w festiwalu jest bezpłatny, uczelnia pokrywa koszty podróży (transport, zakwaterowanie i zajęcia).

Jak aplikować?

Zgłoszenia są przyjmowane do 15 marca. Poniżej znajdują się wskazówki, jak szybko aplikować:

Zarejestruj się na platformie Metacampus.
Wypełnij formularz w języku angielskim.
Uzasadnij swoją aplikację – dlaczego to ty masz pojechać do Lizbony, co cię wyróżnia, pochwal się swoimi osiągnięciami na uczelni i poza nią.

Ideą festiwalu jest pełna inkluzywność i umożliwienie udziału jak najszerszej reprezentacji studentów Unite!. Jeśli więc uważasz, że reprezentujesz grupę o mniejszych szansach na udział w tego typu wydarzeniach, nie rezygnuj z udziału. Skontaktuj się z nami, a my pomożemy ci w pokonaniu ewentualnych trudności związanych z podróżą.

Udział w Unite! Student Festival to ogromna szansa i wyróżnienie. Warto wykorzystać tę okazję. Skład reprezentacji Politechniki Wrocławskiej zostanie ogłoszony 24 marca.

Dodatkowe informacje można znaleźć na stronie wydarzenia w programie na końcu strony lub wysyłając pytanie do Katarzyny Szybalskiej.