Several PhD Fellowships and workshops, a festival and even “U!Train Ideathon” are some of the events that the Unite! programme has already brought to Técnico students since November 2019. This consortium of nine European universities is now starting the Unite!Widening project, which has began in January this year and is co-coordinated by Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) and the Wroclaw Tech, in Poland. The project will start with an event at the ULisboa Rectorate Building, on February 2, which will emphasise the importance of the contribution of the previous phase, the Unite.H2020 project, and this new era of cooperation between European universities, the Unite!Widening project itself.
The goal of Unite!Widening is to strengthen the Unite! Alliance by increasing the consortium’s scientific, technological and innovation capacity, raising its excellence as a group and also at the level of all individual partners, extending and expanding its activities, raising the excellence profile of the Widening countries (Portugal and Poland, co-coordinators of this phase) and implementing Widening policies at European scale. Several activities started in the Unite.H2020 project will now be continued in the Unite!Widening project, with the latter focusing on mitigating differences between the EU’s peripheral regions and the central European countries.
Unite!Widening will award 14 PhD Fellowships in the Industry area and will create an Advanced Training Academy in Science, Research and Innovation. These and other initiatives will be announced at the event on February 2. The kick-off meeting takes place on February 1, at Técnico.
Unite! provides ULisboa students with various opportunities to get involved with the different higher education institutions involved in this consortium:
- Aalto University (Finland);
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden);
- Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany);
- Grenoble INP-UGA (France);
- Politecnico di Torino (Italy);
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain);
- Wrocław Tech (Poland);
- Graz University of Technology (Austria).
On average, Técnico exchanges around 200 to 300 students with Unite! partners every year.
