Next 15 November 2022 the European University Alliance UNA Europa will be organising in Brussels thier 1Europe journey and gear up for the next leg of the Una Europa venture. Open to friends of Una Europa, this event will showcase the successes of 1Europe and provide an outlook to the future.
This year the University Alliance for Sustainability will dedicate its annual conference (earlier: Spring Campus) to newcomers, to young researchers who aspire to make the world a better place. For this, a promising exchange of ideas between actors from the UAS and the Una Europa Alliance will be facilitated throughout this digital Emerging Researcher’s conference. Both alliances serve as a platform for sustainability in research. This joint conference aims to inspire networking among young researchers and support their future careers.
The next CHARM-EU World Café aims to define problem spaces to work with in the first, Preparatory phase of our Master’s programme by discussing with students, academics and other external actors challenges related to sustainability.
Being inclusive is one of the core values of the CHARM-EU alliance. As we are engaged in the process of making higher education in Europe more inclusive and accessible, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) will host the first ever CHARM-EU Inclusion Conference in Budapest on 16th September 2022.
On 26 October 2022, Girls Go Circular – in collaboration with the European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) – is organising the second edition of the Women and Girls in STEM Forum. The event will gather researchers, practitioners, and influential stakeholders in STEM and gender equality and connect them with the students participating in Girls Go Circular’s innovative learning programme.
The second edition’s theme is “Empowering Girls in Science and Technology”.The Women and Girls in STEM Forum will also celebrate the participation of thousands of girls from 11 European countries in the Girls Go Circular project and offer them the opportunity to receive mentoring from leading professionals.
The event, entitled “Connecting people, spaces and realities”, will be hosted by the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, on 2-3 February 2023. TMhe European Learning & Teaching Forum is an opportunity for the European higher education community to exchange on institutional practice in learning and teaching, and on European higher education policy. The Forum welcomes members of higher education institutions, in particular vice-rectors for academic affairs, deans, heads of learning and teaching centres, as well as management and students, but also policy-makers and other stakeholders.
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) created by EuroScience in 2004, is the largest biennial interdisciplinary meeting on science and innovation in Europe, for and with society. This year’s conference theme is all about unity and bridging gaps not just between the humanities, the social science, the natural, medical and physical sciences but also between scientists, policy makers, the media and the general public.
OECD is organising a webinar where participants will have the opportunity to discuss how host countries can best support Ukrainian refugees through their VET systems, while also benefitting their domestic labour markets. They will also look at the larger role that VET can play in developing a workforce ready to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
In March 2022, the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access was launched, upon initiative of Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR). The objective of the Action Plan is to further develop and expand a sustainable, community-driven Diamond OA scholarly communication ecosystem.
YERUN Alliance is among the numerous organisations supporting the Action Plan and is eager to actively contribute to its implementation. This is why we are organising an online event on 20th June (10:30 – 12:30 CEST) aiming to contribute to the ongoing discussions and complement the intentions laid out in the Action Plan with a more hands-on perspective: what are universities doing to promote this yet under-exploited publication format? What are the obstacles that are preventing it from reaching its full potential? What can the research sector do to overcome these obstacles?
The global cluster of universities working on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, led by the eHealth Center, is organizing, in conjunction with the International Association of Universities (IAU), a webinar to discuss issues related to equity and equal access to health, to ensure that everyone can lead healthy lives and fulfil their potential. The registration period for the webinar, which will take place on 7 June 2022 at 12 noon, is now open.
