Author: -

Science Café at EKA

The Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is hosting the T4EU Science Café “Keep the Church in the Village”on the 4th of September from 1 to 3 pm.

The roundtable will examine how the roles of religious and industrial buildings are evolving in today’s Europe. With congregations declining and industries moving away, churches and factories are often left empty, posing challenging questions about reuse, heritage, and identity.

Speakers include:

  • Brigitta Davidjants – Musicologist and journalist, The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Estonia)
  • Marko Uibu – Associate Professor of Social Innovation, University of Tartu (Estonia)
  • Alexandre Palma – Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Portugal and Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Lisbon (Portugal)
  • Gregor Taul – Art historian and semiotician, Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia), moderator of the event.

Date & Time: 4 September, 13:00–15:00 (EEST, Tallinn time)
Location: Narva Art Residency (NART, Joala 18), Estonia
Format: Onsite & Online via T4EU Youtube channel

Registration

The online meeting link will be sent to you by email closer to the event date and will also be available before the event.

Mobility Windows info session

On 5 September 2025 at 10:00 AM CET, academic staff is invited to join an online information session on “Planning, Designing, and Implementing Mobility Windows”.

The session targets study coordinators, programme directors, lecturers, and professors working to include structured international mobility in their study programmes.

This session will:

  • introduce the concept of mobility windows
  • share best practices for the entire process of planning, designing, and implementing mobility windows
  • increase awareness of funding opportunities (e.g. Seed Funding Programme – Transform4Europe)

To register for the information session, please complete the form or send an email to adele.robart@uni-saarland.de

You will receive the link a few days before the session. Feel free to submit any questions you may have in advance via the form.

To prepare for the info session, please review the following documents:

Discover the Bachelor track Winter semester offer

The new T4EU Bachelor tracks (BA) Course catalogue for Winter semester 2025/2026 is now available. As a UniTS student, you have full access to the Course catalogue.

You can easily add the BA courses to your studies*, choosing either a single course or several.

Discover the BA courses offered by the Alliance on the new Metacampus platform.

*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.

COURSE CaTALOGUE – METACAMPUS

Results of the selection process for the T4EU Week in Kaunas

We are pleased to announce the results of the selection process for participation in the T4EU Week “TransformEd: Renaissance of Liberal Arts”, which will take place in Kaunas from 20 to 24 October 2025.

The following students have been selected:

Bachelor’s Degree students
EC0104376
SM2001998
SP0203490
EC0104183
SM5102088
EC1200941

Master’s Degree students
SP5400501
LE6300220
GI0104434
GI0104189
IN1600563
ME0302171

PhD candidates
DR0400012

T4EU Metacampus now online: a new platform for course access

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.

Browse through the Alliance study offer.

Online information session for the 2nd Seed Funding call

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 one of the dedicated Q&A sessions:

  • 14 August
  • 18 August
  • 20 August

If you would like to attend the virtual sessions, 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.

Training session: How to write a competitive ERC proposal

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)

REGIStration

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required and limited to researchers and staff of T4EU partner universities.

2nd Seed Funding call open

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

Seed Funding Programme page

HOW TO APPLY

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.

T4EU Matchmaking at the University of Primorska

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. See the full Programme.

When: September 4th to 5th  

Location: Koper, Slovenia  

Registration: Interested participants must submit their application by 17 August 2025 through their home university, which will be responsible for the selection process.

AppLY NOW

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