UniTS and Alliance Students now have the opportunity to access the new T4EU Metacampus — a digital platform designed to simplify the process of browsing and applying for courses offered across the Transform4Europe Alliance.
You can access the Metacampus and enroll in courses using your university credentials.
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 preclude credit recognition.
T4EU is organizing an online information session for the 2nd Seed Funding call which opened recently. For those of you who may develop questions during the proposal writing process, please consider joining the dedicated Q&A session on 20 August 2025.
If you would like to attend the virtual session, please email t4eu-seedfunding@uni-saarland.de to receive the meeting link. The sessions will be recorded and made available on the website afterward.
Also, for anyone considering submitting a research project to the EU together with at least three other T4EU partners, we encourage you to reach out to the Joint Grants Office for support.
Our partner universities Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Saarland University are organizing an online training session dedicated to European Research Council (ERC) competitive proposal writing.
This session is particularly suited for applicants preparing for the forthcoming ERC deadlines:
ERC Starting Grant: 14 October 2025
ERC Consolidator Grant: 13 January 2026
PhD defended > 2 and <= 7 years ago on 1 January 2026
PhD defended > 7 and <= 12 years ago on 1 January 2026
Why attend?
unpack the ERC evaluators’ perspective and the distinctive ‘ERC mindset’
show how to translate project ideas into a competitive narrative for B1 and B2
discuss common pitfalls and proven tactics to strengthen scientific vision, feasibility, and track record
offer a 10-15 minutes testimony from an ERC grantee who will share first-hand insights from proposal development through evaluation
Date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Time: 13:00 – 15:00 (CET)
Format: Remote (connection details provided after registration)
Facilitators: Helena Castro (T4EU – Joint Grants Office) & Nina Christmann (Saarland University – Research Management Division)
The 2nd Transform4Europe (T4EU) seed-funding call is now open, offering financial support for joint initiatives involving at least two partner institutions within the alliance.
The programme encourages projects that promote mobility, develop joint study offers, micro-credentials, PhD programmes, lifelong learning, and broader collaboration aligned with key areas such as environmental, societal, and digital transformation.
To facilitate communication among academic staff and support the application process, dedicated resources are available. For more details on these resources, grant amounts, as well as information on the application process, please refer to the
Project proposals should be sent to t4eu-seedfunding@uni-saarland.de. Submission deadline: by 30th September 2025. Please cc your local T4EU team into your application.
T4EU is organizing an online information session on 20 August 2025 to answer any questions you may have about the seed funding process. If you would like to attend the virtual session, please email t4eu-seedfunding@uni-saarland.de to receive the meeting link. The sessions will be recorded and made available on the website afterward.
This September, the University of Primorska welcomes young researchers and PhD students in the field of heritage from the Transform4Europe alliance to take part in an engaging two-day Matchmaking Event designed to spark collaboration and new ideas.
Topic: Heritage – Research and practices in a rapidly changing world
When: September 4th to 5th
Location: Koper, Slovenia
Registration: Interested participants must submit their applicationby 17 August 2025 through their home university, which will be responsible for the selection process.
Centered on heritage and heritage sciences, the event aims to ignite fresh perspectives, bold dialogue, and dynamic interdisciplinary connections under the theme “Heritage – Research and Practices in a Rapidly Changing World.” Participants will showcase their research and forward-thinking ideas in a dedicated pitch session, seeking common cultural threads, values, and visions with peers from across the Transform4Europe alliance.
These connections will evolve into tangible collaboration concepts through the interactive “Idea Wall,” where participants will contribute keywords, project ideas, and their aspirations for future initiatives. This unique opportunity is designed to spark long-lasting research networks—beginning in Koper and continuing through academic mobility, joint projects, and ongoing exchange well into the future.
Aims:
to bring together young researchers and PhD students who work in the general field of heritage and heritage sciences
to establish dialogue between representatives of different scholarly disciplines focusing on the proposed field
to create conditions for academic staff and students from the T4EU Alliance universities to get to know each other’s work better
to create conditions for academic staff and students from the T4EU Alliance universities to form interdisciplinary teams and work on ideas about future joint endeavours
Don’t miss the chance to participate in one of the most exciting events organised by the T4EU Alliance
Vytautas Magnus University invites BA, MA and PhD students to participate in the sixth edition of the T4EU Week, under the topic: “TransformEd: Renaissance of Liberal Arts”.
Five days, from 20th to 24th October 2025, will be filled with an attractive offer of classes and social events.
The University of Trieste will select 6 BA, 6 MA and 3 PhD students to take part in one of the most significant events of our University Alliance.
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 comply with these guidelines will preclude credit recognition.
Students can participate in one course throughout the week and be awarded 3 – 4 ECTSs.
Each student participates in 1 course, which will run the whole week, but during the application process you can rank 3 courses that you would like to attend in order of desirability.
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 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 – 4 ECTS by the Vytautas Magnus University.
The courses will mainly take place in the morning. In the afternoon, we will organise optional events, such as sports, cultural and scientific events.
Imagine a university not just as a place to get answers, but as a place to ask more thoughtful questions. A space where we grow not only in what we know, but in who we are.
Vytautas Magnus University was founded on the belief that Liberal Arts offer a cross-border, value-driven model of education. In a world that demands speed and specialization, Liberal Arts invite us to pause — not to romanticize the past, but to recover the tools needed to live wisely and act justly.
In times of rapid change and cultural fragmentation, we return to the enduring strengths of this tradition: critical thinking, civic responsibility, philosophical inquiry, artistic expression, and the ability to connect disciplines and communities.
Liberal Arts begin with a radical question: What does it mean to be free? Not just politically, but intellectually and imaginatively. This education challenges students to engage with complex texts, explore the interplay of language, culture, and power, and develop the skills to interpret, question, and create.
Over five days, participants will explore themes where knowledge meets care, and tradition sparks innovation. No final exams — just lasting questions to carry home:
MAKING SENSE OF DISAGREEMENT.How can we learn to disagree meaningfully in a time of polarization, disinformation, and digital toxicity?
THE IDEA OF EUROPE.Is Europe a place, a project, or a shared imagination — and what does it mean to belong to it today?
CRITICAL HERITAGE.Whose memory is preserved — and whose is silenced? How can we approach heritage in times of cultural conflict?
GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION.How can we think and communicate globally in an era of nationalism, disinformation, and digital fragmentation?
FIELD NOTES TO FRONTLINES: ANTHROPOLOGY THAT MATTERS. What does it mean to listen ethically, speak responsibly, and represent others with care in anthropology and beyond?
CREATING A MUSICAL FROM SCRATCH: INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL THEATER WORKSHOP.Can creativity across cultures become a language of shared meaning — and what can a musical say that words cannot?
GIS 360°: MAPS THAT TRANSFORM SOCIETY.How can maps become instruments of social justice, environmental change, and collective storytelling?
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: UNDERSTANDING, THREATS & SOLUTION.Can we protect biodiversity not only through science, but through empathy and civic responsibility?
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS. What does climate action mean in a world of complexity — and how can science, policy, and ethics work together?
We are pleased to share the list of UniTS students selected to participate in the “First Festival of European Culture and Languages – Tourism and Heritage from the Border,” taking place at our university from July 7 to 11.
We are pleased to announce the list of students selected to represent UniTS at the FIRST T4EU-LAB Fair and the 2nd Stakeholder Challenge, taking place from 2–4 June 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The entire UniTS university community is invited to attend the lectures by Professor Tomasz Blaszczak from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Professor Blaszczak is a contemporary historian and will give two lectures:
Monday, 12 May, from 12:00 to 14:00 in Room B, Androna Baciocchi (Prof. Catalan’s course): The development of the Lithuanian-Belarusian border: Soviet Legacies and New Divides
Tuesday, 13 May, from 15:00 to 17:00 in Room C1, Androna Baciocchi (Prof. Foi’s course): Constructing Modern Lithuanian Identity: Politics of memory in Interwar Lithuania
