The Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Crafts and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) are organizing an EIT Awareness Day in Zagreb (venue: Hotel International, Miramarska 24) on February 24th, 2020, with the aim of getting to know the EIT community, its activities, and opportunities to cooperate with relevant national stakeholders. The event is organized under the auspice of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The co...

The Agency for Mobility and Programs and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency organized an Info-Day on Friday, November 15, 2019, with the aim of introducing participants to the specifics and opportunities of collaboration through ENRICH networks, RISE projects and participation in EIT programs. The Info Day started with a presentation of the ENRICH centers network which is promoting internationalization and cooperation in the field of science, technology, and innovation between European organizati...

The project „Strategic Internationalisation of Graduate Studies in Mathematics and Biotechnology – OPTILIFE ” has been approved for funding under the Operational Programme Efficient Human Resources 2014-2020 and co-financed from the European Social Fund.

The ceremonial signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Rijeka, Trieste International Foundation (Fondazione Internazionale Trieste per il Progresso e la Libertà delle Scienze) and The Agency Rijeka 2020 LLC was held on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at the Student Center’s Café "Akvarij" at the University of Rijeka Campus. The Agreement will contribute to strengthening social, cultural and economic relations as well as strategic cooperation between T...

SPEAR (Supporting and Implementing Plans for gender Equality in Academia and Research) is a Coordination and Support Action project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme. Despite numerous EU-wide projects aimed at improving gender equality (GE) in academia, challenges persist, and GE practitioners and change agents experience fatigue and lack of support structures. SPEAR will initiate institutional change in nine European research performing organizations (RPOs) by implementing gender equality plans.

The 11th BESTPRAC Working Group meeting was held from March 11-12 at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and gathered over 100 people from different European countries.

University of Rijeka is a partner in Erasmus+ Key Action 3 Forward Looking Cooperation Project “Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education” (TEFCE). The specific objective of the TEFCE project is to develop innovative and feasible policy tools at the university and European level for supporting, monitoring and assessing the community engagement of universities. The project has two sub-objectives:

European Researchers’ Nights are public events dedicated to bringing researchers closer to the public. They showcase the diversity of research and highlight the impact of research on our daily lives. The aim of this action is also to motivate young people to embark on research careers. This is the second time for UNIRI to participate in this type of action. In 2013 we had successful application and implementation and that was the reason to join this project in 2018/2019 again. European Researchers´ Night 2018/2019...