Applications for the T4EU Week at Saarland University are now open!
The event will take place from 8th to 12th May 2023 in Saarbrücken.
Have a look at the programme and apply until 12th April.
This week will be dedicated to the topic “Europe in transformation”. There will be a wide range of courses for different target groups. Up to 8 students will be accepted from each partner university.
Please note:
Students must take at least one of the following compulsory courses: Quantum theory and Foundations of Europe (3 CP each). In addition, they may also choose to take other additional courses. In this case, they will not obtain more CPs.
The programme includes a section dedicated to hybrid and online courses that are free and open to all participants who want to join remotely. Registration for these courses will be possible in a few weeks.
Students from the T4EU Alliance universities are encouraged to join the Stakeholder challenge: an opportunity to design an improvement action on a cutting-edge platform in the Business Intelligence sector, already used by many “Fortune 500” companies: “AgrEGG”.
Students and academic staff will work online in groups for three days on a cutting-edge Business Intelligence platform. What is asked by the Stakeholder is to create support for the functional evaluation, to test the user experience, and to suggest new features for the general improvement of the tool.
Prodigys Group has launched a challenge that could be of interest to many T4EU Alliance Students and academic staff!
The Stakeholder Challenge consists in designing an improvement action for their Business Intelligence platform “AgrEGG” already used by many Fortune 500 companies. Thanks to its ability to quickly combine any type of data, regardless of quantity and source, the platform allows you to easily explore data thanks to its drill down, aggregation and intelligent visualization capabilities.
Data exploration is no longer just linear but becomes dynamic, scalable, flexible, and real-time. The powerful calculation engine, starting from different data sources, can process complex mathematical formulas to build statistics and graphs analysis to measure and monitor KPIs from any database or data source. Students, with any academic background, and academic staff will work in groups for three days (10th /11th /12th May 2023) creating support for the functional evaluation of the tool, testing the user experience, and suggesting new features for the toll overall improvement. The following work steps are planned during the three-day Challenge:
User analysis: the creation of own dashboard and evaluation of frontend and backend usability.
Benchmark Market: research of similar software highlighting its specialities and success factors.
Tuning User Interface: redesigning some elements/sections.
Concept plug-in: the creation of additional services which can increase the effectiveness of the product/service. Winners will be awarded 1,500 euros.
The University of Alicante invites BA and MA students from Transform4Europe partner universities to join Transform4Europe Week. The topic of the event is “Digital Transformation”. Societal digital transformation refers to the incorporation of digital technologies and tools into various aspects of society: businesses, government, education, and healthcare. It implies the adoption of digital technologies: such as cloud computing, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, to enable more efficient and effective ways of working and delivering services to the public.
Students can choose from the following four workshops (see detailed workshop description attached) that will take place on the 9th and 10th of May at the University of Alicante:
From the 1st of March to the 14th of April 2023, you can register for the 2nd edition of the T4EU Business Plan Competition, open to students ofTransform4Europe alliance universities.
The main objective of the Business Plan Competition is to spread the culture of innovation in the academic world and the European business environment by encouraging the start-up and scale-up of companies (university/academic spin-offs and innovative start-ups) that turn original ideas into business ideas.
Organized by CLab UniTS, the Competition will focus on Sustainability.
Students can participate in groups; each group must be a mixed team of at least 5 students coming from the different partner universities. Teams may optionally include academic staff.
The competition is an opportunity to work on your sustainable business project by sharing experiences in international teams, with the support of qualified mentors. Selected aspiring entrepreneurs will participate in a dedicated training session. The best project will be awarded 5,000 euros.
These are the planned stages:
By March 31st you can register your business idea, and then up to seven of the best projects will be selected to be admitted to the next stage.
From mid-April to the end of May, the selected groups will be tutored by mentors (entrepreneurs, consultants, managers, professionals, business angels and institutional investors and university professors) who will provide support for the development and improvement of the business plans and pitches to be presented for the selection of the winners. The selected groups will also be able to undertake entrepreneurial culture training on business management topics (business planning, strategy, marketing, organization, accounting, finance, and industrial property protection) and take part in meetings with the university, industry, and financial community (to foster the circulation of ideas and development of relationships).
An award ceremony for the winners will be held in early June during a dedicated public event.
A new Open Dual Lecture will take place on the 27th of January, 2023, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Organized by the University of Alicante, it will focus on the Entrepreneurial and Academic scope of Sustainable Tourism.
The lecture venue is the university’s conference room, Sala de Conferencias, Edificio San Fernando 40, Alicante.
The application is open until January 8, 2023. The programme is free of charge; each participant will receive a scholarship of 5000PLN (approximately 1100 euro).
INTERCOM is open to humanities and/or social sciences students who have completed at least one year of the 1st cycle of studies or are in the process of completing the 2nd cycle of studies and to PhD candidates.
The programme (75 hours online + 60 hours on-site, 11 ECTS) includes online lessons and a study visit to Katowice. It comprises 6 modules with introductory lectures and workshops during which students will participate in discussions, seminars and lessons on Polish culture.
During the 10-day study visit at the University of Silesia, students will also have the chance to join sightseeing tours.
The Mariupol State University cooperates with the T4EU Alliance, and its members would like to show their solidarity with Ukrainian colleagues and their families.
T4EU universities invite their communities to support the Ukrainian university and the project to rebuild the destroyed university, relocating it to Kyiv.
Within the T4EU Bachelor’s Tracks framework, the University of Alicante -UA has set up the course Human Resources Management. Skills for managing people in a global context(3ECTS). Bachelor students with B2 English level from the Alliance universities can enrol until the 27th of January 2023. The course is online and will take place from 6th to 15th February. There are 15 places (plus UA students) available on a first-come, first-served basis.
From 17th to 19th October 2022 the Transform4Europe Strategic Assembly was held at the Saarbrücken Campus of Saarland University. It was a unique opportunity gathering about 160 guests to discuss the core topics of the T4EU alliance and to work on different parts of the project. Expert meetings, steering committee meetings and work group meetings were organised to provide updates about ongoing activities and pave the way to their future development. The event started with a Policy Conference, where different dimensions of transformation were focused in a roundtable discussion and in three workshops.
The team representing the University of Trieste included professors Alberto Pallavicini, Ilaria Micheli, Barbara Campisi, Caterina Bembich, Donata Vianelli, Emanuele Brambilla, as well researchers and members of the administrative staff: Alessandro Carrieri, Federica Mancini, Carla Savastano, Federica Gori, Cristiano Piani, Silvia Agostini, Giulia Pettenuzzo, Neva Martelanc, Salvatore Dore and Riccardo Formisano. The latter has recently been appointed as President of the T4EU’s Student Council.
The University of Trieste’ delegation
Prof. Pallavicini and dr. Carla Savastano, with the support and expertise of Project Manager Giulia Pettenuzzo, were asked to organise and chair the “Transformation in Institution” workshop, which witnessed remarkable interest and raised a lively discussion. Prof. Pallavicini also took part in two crucially important institutional coordinators meetings to discuss about the future of the T4EU project after its natural expiration in October 2023.
Cristiano Piani took part in the Joint Virtual Mobile Entrepreneurs Office, where he illustrated UniTS’s activities in the innovation sector. His participation ensured the inclusion of students from our Contamination Lab within an international network, granting access to new collaboration and exchange opportunities with partner universities.
The University of Trieste was also appointed to organise and chair the “Innovative teaching and Curricula” Steering Committee meeting, which included two key WPs of the T4EU project: WP3, “Challenge-based European Curricula” and WP4, “Innovative Teaching and Learning Environments”.
Preparation for this meeting began months before the actual scheduled date, and included activity planning, document preparation, and dialogue with partners to select strategic issues to bring to the attention of the Steering Committee members. During this time, Prof. Barbara Campisi, prof. Caterina Bembich, and Project Manager Silvia Agostini worked closely together to make sure the Steering Committee meeting ran as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Their work was precise, always on time and to the point, thus receiving appreciation from all partners.
These are only a few examples of how pro-active collaboration towards common goals can bring about great results.
The upcoming activities UniTS will be involved in are the Inter-regional Policy Round Table and the 2nd Stakeholder Assembly, which will take place from 14th to 16th November 2022 at Sofia University. Both activities are part of the T4ERI project.
