Category: T4EU Weeks

Environmental Heritage and Generations

The University of Trieste (UNITS) is proud to lead the T4EU Sustainable Heritage Student Competitions, an initiative carried out in collaboration with the Bora Museum and the Innovators Community Lab (ICL – UNITS).

This project invites students to explore innovative approaches to the preservation and enhancement of environmental and intergenerational heritage, fostering greater awareness and active engagement in the context of climate change.

Selection criteria will be based on the evaluation of written (300-word) or visual (3-minute video/poster) proposals that align with the competition themes and demonstrate analytical and creative thinking. 

Through the competition, UNITS aims to stimulate reflection and action on key issues related to cultural and environmental sustainability, encouraging collaborative projects capable of generating both local and replicable impacts. This initiative aligns with the values and activities already developed by the Bora Museum, with a specific focus on:

  • Environmental Heritage: examining the atmospheric, climatic, and landscape dimensions of heritage.
  • Generations: promoting intergenerational dialogue to share and preserve stories, experiences, and memories.

With this challenge, the University of Trieste invites students to explore the role of cultural and creative organizations in disseminating knowledge and raising awareness of the impact of climate change on both tangible and intangible heritage.

Submit your proposal to t4eu.heritage@units.it  by 20th April.

1st Festival of European Culture and Languages

Tourism and Heritage from the Border

DATE: 7th–11th July 2025
AUDIENCE: BA, MA, and PhD students
LOCATION: Trieste, Italy
TOPIC: Tourism and Heritage in Border Regions
FORMAT: Blended Intensive Program (BIP), 3 ECTS awarded
APPLICATION: To participate, apply here by 20th April

Tourism is a fundamental aspect of Europe’s cultural and economic landscape. However, it increasingly raises concerns of over tourism, leading to structural challenges on the one hand and the simplification of urban narratives on the other. Cities, rich in historical and cultural complexity, often undergo a process of reification, where their multifaceted identities are flattened to fit a coherent, marketable story.

This phenomenon is particularly evident in border regions, where historical,
anthropological, and political dynamics are intricate and deeply intertwined. Too often, these complexities are obscured by stereotypical and exclusionary narratives that fail to reflect the richness of local identities.

In this festival, we will critically engage with these themes, taking Trieste —a city shaped by its “border identity”— as a case study. Participants will be invited to explore the city as ”cruisers” —same as those arriving everyday on Trieste shores—, embarking on an intellectual and experiential journey that unveils the hidden and contested narratives embedded in its urban fabric. Through guided explorations and critical discussions, we will reflect on what is made visible in heritage discourses and what remains invisible.

The festival is designed as a Blended Intensive Program (BIP), encouraging students to actively engage in this critical exploration. Rather than following a traditional lecturebased format, participants will be challenged to step out of their comfort zones and take part in performative restitutions of their findings. We seek students who are open to an immersive, interdisciplinary, and participatory experience that questions conventional heritage representations.
This event will provide a unique opportunity to unravel the complexities of European cultural narratives and heritage, fostering a deeper understanding of how history and identity are constructed and represented in border regions.

T4EU Week: Exploring Design in All Its Forms at Jean Monnet University in St Étienne

The Jean Monnet University in St Étienne invites students and PhD students from T4EU partner universities to take part in the fifth edition of the T4EU Week under the topic: “Design in all its forms”.

Five days, from 19th to 23rd May 2025, will be filled with an attractive offer of classes and accompanying events.

Organisers will offer participants a choice of 8 courses with various themes, from biology through law and history to architecture, linguistics, sustainable development and ecological transformation.

Each student can participate in 1 course, which will run through the whole week, but can select up to 3 courses during application, ranked in order of preference.

The University of Trieste will select 5 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:

  • Bio Design: from nature optimisation to human design & nature inspired biomimetic surfaces for biomaterials design
  • Passing Design: Facilitating Innovation Through Design
  • Ancient design, Modern ideas.
  • Design: Thinking differently, designing together
  • Designs in the European Union – Legal aspects
  • Design and language : The role of words in creating forms and meanings
  • Designing Organizations to address Societal Challenges in Territories (DO-IN-ACT)
  • Design for Ecological Transformation: Laboratory for [living] Tree [as] Architecture

The full offer and a list of recommended hotels can be found here: Student Programme T4EU WEEK in Saint Etienne 2025 – Program

Courses will mainly take place in the morning. In the afternoon, you can participate in optional activities, like sports, cultural and scientific events.

To complete the course, you will have to pass a knowledge test. After successful completion, you will be awarded 3 ECTS by Jean Monnet University.

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 St. Étienne. During the application process, you may select up to three courses in order of preference.

The application deadline is 21st March.

The results of the selection procedure will be published on the dedicated T4EU webpage by 11th April.

If you need any assistance with your application, please contact t4eu@units.it For more information about the week, see the T4EU official website.

Communication for a better future – T4EU week in Katowice

It’s time for the next edition of T4EU Week!

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.

programme

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.

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

T4EU Week in Katowice: “Communication for a Better Future”

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.

Have a look at the full educational offer.

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. 

Beyond Borders T4EU week

It is a great pleasure for us to announce the launch of our 2nd Transform4Europe Week, co-organised with our Slovenian neighbours, the University of Primorska, from 20th to 24th May 2024!

The title of this year’s edition is Beyond Borders, as a tribute to the decade-long collaboration between our two institutions, which are now bound by an even stronger tie: the Transform4Europe Alliance.

The T4EU week will start and take place in Trieste on 20th and 21st May, and will then move to Koper on 22nd, where it will see its conclusion on 24th May.

We will welcome participants from all 10 partner universities with a rich and varied programme, that will be fine-tuned and published over the next weeks.  Stay tuned to get all the updates!

For the time being, we have put together a course offer for students of all study levels (BA, MA, PhD).

Take a look at the course catalogue and make your choice!

Each course description provides details about:

  • max number of students
  • target group/s (BA, MA, PhD)
  • granted ECTSs

Students can only attend one course, but are requested to list three options in order of preference.

Each partner university can send up to 15 students, who will be selected internally based on Erasmus+ criteria and notified accordingly, once the selection procedure is finished.

Courses will be delivered following a BIP hybrid scheme (Blended Intensive Programme), including some online and 20 face-to-face teaching hours each. ECTS credits will be granted by the University of Primorska.

Use our application form and don’t miss out the chance to experience unity and a real sense of belonging beyond borders!

Application And Logistics Guidelines

Hurry up: the deadline to apply is 15th March 2024!”