Eleven leading European research universities including Freie Universität Berlin have come together to create a unique alliance – Una Europa. Their common goal is to expand and strengthen existing partnerships in teaching, research, and education.

Una Europa aims to draw on our collective strengths to create a truly European inter-university environment, a University of the Future: by entering into agreements facilitating joint degree programs and doctoral research, by promoting student and staff mobility and exchanges, by increasing digital teaching programs, through joint participation in EU-funded projects and shared research networks, and last but not least, through developing innovative new formats for joint working practices.

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Competition "Una Europa PhD Impact Award"

Are you a doctoral researcher in the field of Future Materials (or related research fields)? Do you want to share the impact of your research with others?

Enter our Una Europa PhD Impact Award competition, promote your research, and get a chance to travel to Bologna and participate in a storytelling workshop.

The Una Europa PhD Impact Award aims to recognise and celebrate the impact, and potential impact, that research and researchers across Una Europa partner universities have on society. Researchers are invited to present a short case study aimed at a non-scientific, non-technical audience. The case study should outline the (potential) impact of the research e.g., on society, the economy, the environment, health, education, technology, culture, or policy.

Your research project, submitted to the Una Europa PhD Impact Award should have a connection to Future Materials, which we understand as any material anticipated or expected to be developed or to become prominent in the future. Such materials possess advanced or novel properties, are more sustainable, or offer advantages over currently available materials in specific applications.

You can participate if you are currently undertaking a PhD at one of our 11 Una Europa partner universities, of which Freie Universität is a member. Deadline for submitting your case study is 15 September 2024.

The winners of the award will be invited to an Una Europa gathering in Bologna in November 2024 and they will receive the opportunity to participate in a storytelling workshop.

You can find more information on the competition on our Una Europa website:

https://www.una-europa.eu/opportunities/una-europa-phd-impact-competition

Una  Europa Celebration of the European Day of Languages 

Date & location: 26 September 2024, online

On the European Day of Languages on 26 September we celebrate the alliance’s commitment to multilingualism by offering Una Europa staff and students the opportunity to come together and connect with their peers from across the alliance.

Join us on a journey to discover the linguistic diversity of Una Europa through online introductory language courses, and learn more about the place of regional and minority languages in Europe with a lecture and panel discussion by leading experts and academics.

Online Lecture and panel discussion| Embracing Linguistic Diversity: 16:30 - 18:00 CET

Discover a new tongue with our language taster courses

These ‘language tasters’ will give you a brief introduction to some of the languages spoken across Una Europa, including some regional and minority languages.

Further information and registration: https://www.una-europa.eu/calendar/celebrate-the-european-day-of-languages-with-us