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Join the T4EU International Conference ‘PROF-SYNERGY’ in Kaunas

The University of Trieste invites its academic and non-academic staff to participate in the Transform4Europe Alliance’s International Conference “Enhancing Professional Excellence: Synergy of Academic and Non-Academic Staff (PROF-SYNERGY)”, which will take place on April 9-10, 2025, at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.

About the Conference
Building on the tradition of past Transform4Europe events, this year’s conference introduces an innovative approach by bringing together academic and non-academic staff. The goal is to foster meaningful collaboration, promote professional development, and enhance the collective growth of the educational community.
Attendees will explore topics such as digital learning technologies, innovative teaching methods, resilience skills, lifelong learning, and quality culture development.

Programme Highlights
• Keynote speeches by experts in education and professional development.
• 20+ professional development sessions designed to inspire and educate.
• Awards ceremonies recognizing innovative contributions by academic and non-academic staff.
• Social events, a Science Café, and a campus tour of Vytautas Magnus University, including visits to university laboratories.

Awards Opportunities

T4EU Non-Academic Staff Award: These awards are organised for the first time, therefore, we encourage you to apply! Applications are accepted until 31 January 2025. The application form is accessible here. The winners will be awarded during the T4EU Conference.
T4EU Innovative Teaching Award: These awards are implemented according to WP.5.2 (the target group is Teachers/Academic Staff). The deadline for applications is 31 January 2025.

For any additional questions, don’t hesitate to contact the Transform4Europe team at transform4europe@vdu.lt.

Call for Applications: Transform4Europe Visiting Professorship

The University of Trieste and the University of Primorska jointly invite applications for the Visiting Professorship Programme for the second term of the 2024-2025 academic year and the 2025-2026 academic year.

the full agreement

Update on Deadline

The submission deadline has been extended to January 10, 2025 to allow more time for interested candidates.

Who Can Apply?

We welcome applications from full, associate, assistant, and emeritus professors—or individuals in equivalent positions—affiliated with research institutions outside the Transform4Europe (T4EU) Alliance.

Programme Highlights:

  1. Teaching and Collaboration: Professors will deliver lectures and collaborate on courses across various disciplines, including Economics, Humanities, AI, Health Sciences, and more.
  2. Focus Areas: Digital transformation, environmental sustainability, and societal inclusion.
  3. Duration: Programmes range from 20 days (10 days per university) to 5 months (2.5 months per university), to be completed by July 31, 2026.
  4. Funding: Travel and accommodation costs are covered according to the host universities’ policies.

How to Apply?

Submit your application by January 10, 2025, including:

Evaluation Criteria:

Applications will be assessed based on alignment with the T4EU mission, expected impact, and proposed activities.

Without Borders: Matteo Comelato’s International Journey with Transform4Europe!

Matteo Commellato, a master’s student in Environmental and Nature Sciences and Technologies at UniTS, shares with our Magazine how the Transform4Europe alliance has enriched his academic and personal journey.

Matteo fully embraced the opportunities offered by being part of the Alliance, first participating in the T4EU Week in Poland at USIL, and later deciding to attend interdisciplinary courses in Germany at Saarland University.

This allowed him to broaden his horizons beyond his field of study, joining multicultural and interdisciplinary teams and developing valuable transferable skills.

Direct interaction with students from across Europe strengthened his identity as a European citizen, opening up new perspectives.

The path Matteo chose is part of the experiences and opportunities available to every student at UniTS: being part of a University Alliance and accessing international experiences like these, which differ from Erasmus, is both wonderful and enriching in so many ways.

You can find Matteo’s interview in the new issue of the magazine “Piazzale Europa News.”

read the full article

European Student Assembly 2025

Call for applications by students at the Transform4Europe alliance universities

On 26-28 May 2025, the European Student Assembly (ESA) will take place in Strasbourg at the European Parliament. 

The European Student Assembly is a grassroots project that gathers more than 200 students  each year from different European University Alliances (EUA) to debate current issues, draft political recommendations for the future of Europe and advocate them among stakeholders and decision makers.

AS A T4EU STUDENT, YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY! APPLICATIONS WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 1ST DECEMBER
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Accommodation costs will be COVERED by ESA, while travel costs for selected students will be covered Transform4Europe.

Get in touch with your local T4Eu office to receive all the necessary information: t4eu@units.it 

Please read the #ESA24 handbook before applying.

Would you like to “taste”… a language?

As part of the Transform4Europe alliance, we are excited to invite our students, faculty, and staff to join a unique experience: a “taste” of languages!

For the third year in a row, the Vytautas Magnus University Institute of Foreign Languages is offering Language Tasters, online events focused on minor and lesser-taught languages.

While not everyone may choose to study a rare language, these one-hour sessions allow us to explore new sounds, phrases, and cultures with guidance from native speakers.

This year, we are invited to “taste” four languages: Taiwanese and Chinese, the Canadian-Ukrainian dialect, Indonesian, and Uzbek.

Sessions will be held in English and led by current or former international students from Vytautas Magnus University.

The events will take place each week of November on MS Teams.

Please keep in mind that the time indicated is EET. Please check the time according to your time zone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Join us for this enriching intercultural experience!

Communication for a better future – T4EU week in Katowice

It’s time for the next edition of T4EU Week!

Each time it proves to be a great opportunity to meet new people, and perhaps create long-lasting friendships among the T4EU students from all the universities in the Alliance. 

Five days will be filled with an attractive offer of classes and accompanying events, including sports competitions, a cinema night, a culinary workshop or a mental health workshop.

The event will be inaugurated with a T4EU Kick-off Party on the Katowice campus, allowing students to integrate and build interuniversity ties, which will enhance further cooperation and team-building during the multinational classes taking place each day of the Week.

It is worth noting that the T4EU Week will be held this year simultaneously with the annual Transform4Europe Strategic Assembly, Transform4Europe Global Partnership Forum and Transform4Europe Cultural Heritage Conference, which will gather T4EU rectors, researchers, didactic and administrative employees as well as stakeholders of Transform4Europe partner universities.

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The week of 21-25 October will be thus a vibrant and multifaceted undertaking, with the potential to provide the participants with a range of educational, research, self-development and social inspirations.

Science Cafè at the festival Trieste Next: My chatbot is always there for me

MY CHATBOT IS ALWAYS THERE FOR ME: THE ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANTS AND COMPANIONS

🌐 Follow the event live via streaming on the Transform4Europe YouTube channel
📅 Sunday, September 29th | 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM

📖 Public open discussion by William Hasselberger, Professor of Politics and Director of the Digital Ethics Laboratory at the Catholic University of Portugal.
🎤 Presented by Francesco Miele, Researcher in General Sociology, University of Trieste

AI companions and humanlike conversation – Should we embrace artificial relationships to combat loneliness and social isolation? Explore the ethical and societal impacts of AI companions with leading experts in the field.

🔍 Don’t miss this insightful discussion on the future of AI and human connections!

T4EU Week in Katowice: “Communication for a Better Future”

The University of Silesia in Katowice invites students and PhD students of all the Transform4Europe partner universities to take part in the third edition of the T4EU Week in Katowice, under the topic: “Communication for a Better Future”.

Five days, from 21st to 25th October 2024, will be filled with an attractive offer of classes and accompanying events, including sports competitions, a cinema night, a culinary workshop or a mental health workshop. The event will be inaugurated with a T4EU Kick-off Party at the Katowice campus, allowing students to integrate and build interuniversity ties, which will enhance further cooperation and team-building during the multinational classes taking place each day of the Week.

The University of Trieste will select 7 students from all educational paths to participate in one of the most important and significant events organised by our Alliance.

Students can participate in one of the following courses:

  • English Communication Skills for STEM
  • Negotiation Ninja: Skills for Business and Personal Triumphs
  • Who, where, what, why, why not: understanding cultures in an incomprehensible world
  • Individualized Education Program (IEP) for Students With Disabilities
  • Gender Equality In Society. Legal Aspects
  • Challenges and Choices of the Anthropocene Epoch
  • Fundamentals of cybersecurity – a transdisciplinary approach

Courses will mainly take place in the morning. In the afternoon, we will organise optional events, such as sports, cultural and scientific events.

For each course, there will be an in-person component and an online component. The in-person component will take place during the T4EU week, whereas the online component will happen before/after the week. The exact information will be sent from the course leaders after the selection process is completed.

To complete the course, you will have to pass a knowledge test. After successful completion, you will be awarded 3 ECTS by the University of Silesia.

Have a look at the full educational offer.

IMPORTANT!! Before you attend the selected course, remember to inform your “Coordinatore del Corso di Studi” and the “Segreteria didattica” of your Department, following the dedicated guidelines. Failure to do so will result in an impossibility to recognise your ECTSs.

To apply, please fill in this form: T4EU Week in Katowice. During the application process, you may select up to three courses in order of preference.

The application deadline is 31st August.

The results of the selection procedure will be published on the dedicated T4EU webpage by 15th September.

If you need any assistance with your application, please contact t4eu@units.it

For more information about the week, courses and professors, have a look at the programme. 

AI and Society: Researchers’ Commitment to Positive Transformation

“Save the date!!

The T4EU Alliance is committed to building bridges and contributing to the professional growth of researchers and PhD students. To this purpose, a series of matchmaking events will be organised by the T4EU partner universities over the current project phase.

The first Matchmaking Event and Doctoral Seminar organized by JMU will take place in Saint-Etienne, France, on November 13th and 14th. The topic of this event will be: “AI and Society: Researchers’ Commitment to Positive Transformation.”

This event is dedicated to researchers, young researchers, and PhD students who would like to meet up and network within the field of Artificial Intelligence.

On the program: panel discussions, workshops on AI, laboratory visits, and conferences. The program will be finalized and communicated by the end of September.

People interested in receiving the detailed program should register here.”