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.

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

Apply now to join the T4EU Week in Kaunas

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.

Learn more about the programme and apply.

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.

Application deadline: 30th June 2025.

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 SOLUTIONSWhat does climate action mean in a world of complexity — and how can science, policy, and ethics work together? 

Lectures by Prof. Tomasz Blaszczak on Contemporary Lithuanian History

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

The lectures will be held in English.

T4EU Chair Programme Call

A new call for The T4EU Chair Programme in now open. Lecturers from T4EU Alliance universities can apply until October 14th.

A Transform4Europe Chair is a teaching position on a subject relevant to the Alliance’s priority focus areas:

  • Societal transformation, community building and inclusion
  • Digital transformation and smart regions
  • Environmental Transformation and sustainability

See the specific conditions of each university in the call for applications.

The application has to be submitted both to your home University and to the host University of your choice.

Find out more

T4EU week selection procedure results

Below, we list the students selected to participate in the third edition of the T4EU Week in Katowice, which will take place from the 21st to the 25th of October 2024. The main topic of the week is: “Communication for a Better Future”.

SM5101863
IN0400725
PS0102587
SF0600099
SL0102237
GI0103136
GI0104414