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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
The team of the Transform4Europe (T4EU) Smart cities and regions Environmental transformation Lab invites you to participate in the first T4EU Bootcamp that will take place in the city of Burgas, Bulgaria from 10th to 12th September 2024.
For the University of Trieste, students of Master’s degrees and PhDs are eligible to apply. There are 3 open positions, and it is possible to apply until 5 July by filling this form.
Saarland University has just opened registration for two intensive online courses to be held over the summer, one in French (10-19/07) and one in English (12-23/08): look at the programme.
The courses are open to alliance students and enrolment is free of charge with the participants being given 3CFU.
Students from University of Trieste students who wish to participate in the courses and obtain recognition of the relevant CFUs must consult and follow the guidelines. Registration until 23/06
Transform4Europe invites you to participate in the summer course on August 27 to 29 organized by Vytautas Magnus University. This year we offer the ‘(CO)HAPPINESS LABORATORY’ course, which will focus on shaping conditions for the happiness of oneself, others, and us all as society in times of challenges and transformations. Participants will have an opportunity to explore topics on how to recognize, create and maintain happiness on personal, group and societal levels. Starting with the search for their inner happiness, participants will move forward to explore the ways how to support others in their search for happiness and create and sustain a happy environment within their social circles.The form of the ‘(CO)HAPPINESS LABORATORY’ will be a hackathon – an event, typically lasting several days, where people come together to collaborate to solve a problem or identify new opportunities and to learn from each other.
The inspiring talks and inputs from experts will present an in-depth theoretical analysis of happiness and practical experiences from different academic fields (psychology, philosophy, economy, neuroscience, anthropology, political sciences, etc.).
During the 3-day course, activities will also include a visit to the VMU Botanical Garden for relaxation practice, a creative walk in the Freedom Avenue, folk dances, and discussions. Participants will take part in group activities and will present a final group proposal of a “happiness formula” to a panel of judges at the end of the hackathon. During the leisure time, the summer course attendees will be encouraged to experience vibrant Kaunas streets, traditional Lithuanian cuisine, and rich cultural heritage.
The ‘(CO)HAPPINESS LABORATORY’ course will provide students with the best experiences to develop the skills necessary to understand their own happiness, happiness of other people and us all as a society, and to identify new opportunities to stay happy in times of challenges.
All participants having completed the course will be awarded certificates for 3 ECTS, which will be recognized across the entire T4EU alliance. Note that travel and accommodation expenses will be funded by the T4EU Initiative, so please contact the T4EU office at your home university. Without further ado, we invite you to register for the ‘(CO)HAPPINESS LABORATORY’ summer course and experience everything planned yourself!
Application deadline for UniTS students is June 21
