We are pleased to announce the results of the selection process for participation in the T4EU Common European Heritage Week, taking place in Porto at theUniversidade Católica Portuguesa from 16–20 March 2026.
The following candidates have been selected:
The T4EU team at UniTS will be contacting the successful candidates in due course with further information.
The University of Trieste will select 15 students to take part in one of the most significant events of our University Alliance.
Don’t miss the chance to participate in one of the most exciting events organised by the T4EU Alliance.
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa invites BA, MA and PhD students to participate in the seventh edition of the T4EU Week, under the topic: “Community, Communities: Engage to Transform”. The event includes five days in person, from 25th to 29th May 2026, and a virtual meeting in early May (date to be confirmed).
This week brings together students from across the Transform4Europe Alliance for a dynamic academic programme, complemented by cultural, social and networking activities in the vibrant city of Lisbon.
Students can participate in one course throughout the week and be awarded 3 ECTSs.
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: 15th February 2026.
Applications are now open for the T4EU Common European Heritage Week 2026, which will take place in Porto from 16 to 20 March 2026, hosted by Universidade Católica Portuguesa. The week will include lectures, workshops, and collaborative activities in a stimulating international academic environment.
Three students enrolled in Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programmes will be selected. Priority will be given to applicants whose degree programmes are closely related to the disciplines covered during the event, particularly Humanities and Linguistic Studies.
Application deadline : 29 January 2026
Students who successfully complete the programme will be awarded 3 ECTS credits.
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.
Porto, 16–20 March 2026
The T4EU Common European Heritage Week 2026 will take place in Porto (Portugal) from 16 to 20 March 2026, hosted by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
The week will bring together researchers, professionals, students, and cultural practitioners from across the Transform4Europe alliance to reflect on the future of cultural heritage in a time of profound ecological, technological, and social change.
The overarching theme of the week is Heritage Future(s) / Future Heritage(s): On the Threshold of Change
The programme includes conferences, workshops, public events, exhibitions, and site visits, offering multiple perspectives on heritage conservation, sustainability, and innovation.
Programme Highlights
The Museu das Convergências is a new cultural facility in Porto, dedicated to transculturality in art and connected art histories. The visit will conclude with a conversation between Rui Oliveira Lopes (Director of the Museum) and Roberta Altin, moderated by Laura Castro (UCP).
The programme will also feature:
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
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SM2001998
SP0203490
EC0104183
SM5102088
EC1200941
Master’s Degree students
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GI0104434
GI0104189
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PhD candidates
DR0400012
Tourism and Heritage from the Border – 7–11 July 2025 | University of Trieste, Italy
Tourism is a powerful force in shaping Europe’s cultural and economic landscape, but it also raises critical issues: overtourism, simplified narratives, and the erasure of historical complexity. These effects are particularly evident in border cities where rich, layered identities and diverse memories are often reduced to stories that are easier to market.
The Festival of European Culture and Languages, organised within the Transform4Europe University Alliance, takes on these questions through an immersive and critical learning experience for students and researchers coming from across Europe.
Trieste —an emblematic border city with a complex past— becomes the stage for this open-air laboratory on heritage. Designed as a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), the Festival combines theory and practice through several lectures, interdisciplinary workshops, urban explorations, and creative performances. The aim is to challenge standardised heritage representations and foster new reflections on identity, memory, and cultural sustainability in a changing Europe.
Programme Highlights:
25th June – An online kick-off meeting for the participants, with an introduction to the goals and structure of the week. The session includes two lectures on tourism intertwined with mobility and memory, led by Professors Roberta Altin and Alessandro Carrieri.
7th July – The official launch of the Festival at the University of Trieste, followed by a guided tour of the city led by Professors Roberta Altin, Tullia Catalan, Giuseppe Grimaldi and Alessandro Carrieri. Participants will critically examine Trieste’s tourist image through the lenses of anthropology, history, and heritage studies.
8th July – A full day dedicated to the theme of “heritage of overtourism.” Coordinated by Roberta Altin and Giuseppe Grimaldi, the day opens with a roundtable discussion featuring scholars from various disciplines. This is followed by a workshop on mapping border tourism led by Stefano Mastromarino. The day ends with the screening of Abito di Confini (2025), a film by Opher Thomson exploring the connections between tourism and migration — free and open to the public event.
9th July – A deep dive into memory tourism, coordinated by Professors Tullia Catalan and Alessandro Carrieri. The group will take a critical excursion to historical and natural heritage sites, focusing on contested, forgotten, and reinterpreted memories and the reshaping of the spaces that host them.
10th July – A day focused on multilingualism, a foundational element of Trieste’s identity. Organised by Federica Fragapane of the School for Interpreters and Translators, the day begins with a lecture by Professor Piergiorgio Trevisan on the legacy of multilingualism in Trieste, followed by hands-on language workshops.
11th July – Final presentations: students will share their projects, developed collaboratively during the week. The day concludes with the announcement of the winning initiatives for the T4EU Common Cultural Activities, a cross-alliance initiative dedicated to heritage collaboration among Transform4Europe partner universities.
The Festival — which will also be enriched by the simultaneous running of the “First T4EU Sustainable Heritage Student Competition”, focusing on the relationship between heritage, the environment, and generational awareness — will serve as an opportunity to raise participants’ awareness of key contemporary issues.
In addition to involving students, researchers, and professors from the University of Trieste and various European universities, selected events from the Festival and the Student Competition will also be open to the general public. These events, free and open-access, will be held in English and include:
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.
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:
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.
Below is the list of students selected to participate in T4EU Week in Saint-Étienne at Jean Monnet University, which will take place from May 19 to 23, 2025. The main topic of the week is “Design in All Its Forms.”
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| EC0104130 |
| PS5101025 |
| SF0600112 |
| GI0104068 |
