UNITE! - creating a new European virtual and physical inter-university campus

 The Unite! Framework Agreement for Digital Courses and Virtual Exchange Activities has  now been signed by all partners!

The framework agreement addresses activities with a virtual teaching and learning component. The activities shall by no means replace physical mobility, but provide a complementary option either before or after physical mobility and also serve as an inclusive option. It is further expected to support the concept of *Internationalisation at Home. The purpose of this framework agreement is to encourage the development of strategies, establish a common vision, and create new virtual activities whose implementation will be subject to specific multilateral agreements. 

Call for action:

• Student Co-creation Unite!4future Call is Open!

Funding from programme: E +

A competition through metacampus the aim of calling for creative ideas about what can be expected at a university of the future. 

Target: Unite! students, each team must include students from at least 3 Unite! partner universities

Registration deadline: 22nd October

Dissemination materials:  Unite! website publication, YouTube playlist (versions in each language) & twitter post. 

• Aalto University: Research data management open webinar series  [5th Oct–18th Nov]

Aalto offers open and free access to Unite! universities for a series of webinars on research data management and open science. 

Target: The webinars, aimed at university staff and students, are open to everyone. No previous knowledge needed. 

Dissemination materials:  twitter post. 

Forthcoming events:

• We Unite! Startups [October - November]

Funding from programme: E +

A series of events with key-notes from cross-industry sectors, who will show us what it takes to internationalise start-ups to several European countries, such us: Portugal, Sweden, Finland and Spain.

Target: Start-ups stakeholders. 

Dissemination materials: Unite! website publication & twitter post. 

• Virtual Fair for students: organized by Aalto. [3rd of November]

Funding from programme: E +

Unite! Virtual Fair for students on 3 November at 12-15 CET

Virtual courses, joint programmes, project weeks, mentoring and mobility between seven universities – this and much more Unite! offers for students.

Target:  Students and faculty.

Platform: The event will be held on a very visual and game-like platform called Spacial Chat. 

Dissemination materials: To come in the forthcoming weeks. 

• Hackathon “From post Covid University to inclusive European University”. 

[22 -26 November

Funding from programme: E+ (Task 6.6 Internationalisation at home)

Target: Students from each partner university. There is a maximum number of 35 participants divided in 5 teams made of students from each partner university.

Registration deadline: 15th November

Dissemination materials:  Unite! website publication, YouTube video,  twitter post.

• “Unite! Quality Forum” [14 October 2021]

Workshop with external stakeholders of Unite! universities (alumni, industry partners, quality assurance agencies). Organised by the task force Quality Management.

Stay tuned!