The YUFE universities are pleased to announce two calls for postdoctoral research positions in all disciplines, with a project addressing one or more urban opportunities and challenges. Postdocs will carry out their projects anchored in a YUFE host university of their choice. They will define and develop their projects within YUFE focus areas: Sustainability, Digital Society, Citizens Wellbeing, and European Identity. In total,

This year's YUFE Townhall, the largest annual event of the European University Alliance YUFE, was held at the University of Rijeka from 15 to 17 February. More than 100 participants from all partner YUFE universities took part in an interesting programme dedicated to various discussions on innovative approaches and innovation in European higher education. The three-day conference started with a formal reception held at the Sugar Refinery Palace in Rijeka on Wednesday, February 15, where the particip...

Representatives of the University of Rijeka and members of the Diversity and Inclusivity Team - Daria Glavan Šćulac, Ana Tomaško Obradović, Sandra Nuždić, and Tino Vodanović - visited Tor Vergata University in Rome in September. As part of the YUFE work package dedicated to improving diversity and inclusive policies and practices in the YUFE network and partner universities, the meetings in Rome included the sharing of experiences and good inclusive practices of the gathered representatives from...

YUFE is launching an activities programme to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. These activities are primarily aimed at students and staff of YUFE universities. The programme is made up of three initiatives: Challenge Teams, Entrepreneurial Training Activities, including MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)Talk ShowsA competition called ‘Yufethon’. Carrying o...

YUFE is delighted to announce that our application in response to the 2022 Erasmus+ European Universities call has been selected for funding worth €14.4m with a score of 92/100! This is a major milestone for our Alliance YUFE Alliance, which continues to be a frontrunner among European Universities. Over 50 proposals were submitted from 350 higher education institutions looking to develop radical change within European higher education. You can find more information about all selected proposals on ...

Last week we welcomed our new cohort of 241 YUFE Students during out YUFE Meet & Greet. The YUFE Meet & Greet provides new students all the relevant information about YUFE and the various opportunities it has to offer. The new YUFE Students also had the opportunity to talk to their peers and get to know all universities within the Alliance. It was a great event to strengthen and foster the YUFE Community! With this new batch, YUFE has met another important ...

Within the scope of the YUFE program, training cycle titled ''YUFE Career Development Track for Professional Service Staff" was held from January 13 to June 3, 2022. The training cycle covered the following areas: YUFE and the European contextnew trends in recruitment and hiring processesskills of the futurecareer development in teaching and non-teaching staff, and connection with European strategic goals such as open, transparent, and merit-based employment of researchers (OTM-R)d...

Discover our hosting offers! YUFE invites all interested and motivated postdoctoral fellows to apply for the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Call 2022 (MSCA 2022) and choose one of the YUFE universities as the host for their application.

Are you interested in community-engaged research and looking for ways to integrate this approach in your own research? MPCER and YUFERING have invited two Maastricht University researchers, Wiebe Bijker, professor of Technology and Society, and Mitchell Kiefer, Lecturer with a PhD in Sociology, to discuss an example of involving academic and governmental actors in research on climate-related flood risks. This hybrid workshop will take place on Tuesd...

The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun organizes the next YUFE Talk show within the WP5 entrepreneurship program activities. The lecture, titled Implementing Vision, is scheduled for Monday, May 16, 2022 from 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM (CET). AbstractHow to turn vision into action? How to bring the most distant and ephemeral trait of branding into the brand loyalty that appeals to both, customers and public. Working on six features of Vision delivered by ...

The Campus Brussels of Maastricht Universities is organizing an event on the European Strategy for Universities on April 20, 2022, from 12:00 to 13:00 (CEST). The event will give participants the opportunity to listen to first-hand information on the Strategy directly from the European Commission, DG EAC, ask questions on its implementation (e.g. regarding the legal statute for European Universities, the joint European Degree, the rollout of the European student card...

The University of Cyprus is hosting the next YUFE Talk Show titled Key Negotiation Skills on April 6, 2022 (11:00 – 12:30 CET / 12:00 – 13:30 EEST). The speaker is Marilena Shakalli Maroudia (BSc, BFP, FCA, EMCC), Senior Manager & Tutor of PwC’s Academy Cyprus. The webinar will provide the participants with the necessary skills to help them negotiate effectively, and at the same time maintain good relationships with their counterparts. By the end ...

The Challenge Team coordinated by the University Carlos III of Madrid, whose topic is Fight against intolerance: awareness of verbal violence in political speeches and meetings, invited a special speaker Patxi López for an online conference. Patxi López is a Spanish socialist politician serving as a Member of the Con...

The YUFE Student Journey offers you the opportunity to create your own learning path and broaden your European horizon. Are you interested in the YUFE Student Journey? Are you thinking of enriching your degree programme with courses and activities from 10 universities across Europe? Sign up and meet YUFE. During the Open Day we will inform you about the upcoming YUFE Student Journey application period (4-24 April 2022) and about the multiple opportunities YUFE has to offer you. The first YUFE Open Day

As part of a larger event "Week of Action and Awareness on the UN Sustainable Development Goals", promoted by the University Goal Coalition (UGC) from February 28 to March 4, University Carlos III of Madrid is organizing a seminar on the topic of community engagement, on March 3, 2022 (16.00 - 17.00 CET). The speakers are: Silvia Gallart, UC3M, coordinator of WP6: YUFE in the CitiesRiika Pellinen

You are hereby invited to the second lecture of YUFE Alumni on the topic of Understanding urban resilience through behavioral mobility data, which will be held on February 24, 2022 at 4:30 PM. The lecture will be held by Mr. Esteban Moro. More information about the lecturer is available here.

The University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) is organizing the next YUFE talk show! The next YUFE talk show, Find your best idea: tools and practical case, will be held on February 25, 2022, 10:00 - 13:00 (CET). Creativity is the first step to find new ideas but is also important being able to choose the best of them. You will be shown tools to value your ideas and you will be able to put them in practice with your group.

"If science isn't open, it can't help anyone!" As part of the YUFERING project, and with the aim of promoting open science policy, YUFE(RING) partners have created the Open Science Calendar 2022. The calendar highlights all the important activities and events within open science, and each month is additionally dedicated to its specific aspect. You can download the calendar

The YUFE Staff Programme offers mobility and training opportunities for staff members of all universities within the YUFE Alliance. Training sessions may consist of teaching activities (for academic staff) or training activities such as job shadowing, professional development courses, and specific competence-building training for all staff groups. (1)  "German A2" German A2 is a course intended for students with some previous experience i...

The University of Essex is proud to organize a D&I webinar on the Council of Europe's guidelines on upholding equality and protecting against discrimination and hate during the COVID-19 pandemic and similar crises in the future. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and its social and economic effects, hit people belonging to certain groups in a particularly hard way throughout Europe. Upholding equality and protecting against discrimination and hate during the pandemic, as well as other, similar types of...

Would you like to organise activities or initiatives within the YUFE network and further explore diversity and inclusivity within YUFE? YUFE Diversity and Inclusivity (D&I) Grants encourage innovative activities promoting diversity, inclusion and equity, in line with YUFE’s D&I promises and aims. These grants provide funding for interdisciplinary student-staff teams to translate ideas into activities, tools, and research related to diversity and inclusion that could produce a sustainable impact on our YUFE ...

We have warmly welcomed our new YUFE students who are starting their YUFE Student Journey. More than 200 new students from ten partner European universities have begun their YUFE adventure towards excellence and we couldn’t be more delighted to have them on board. On November 17, 160 people from all over Europe attended the YUFE Meet & Greet. Although often hundreds of miles apart, together they started their educational journey at our pioneering European university. Our Meet &...

The YUFE Student Forum has held elections for new members of the Student Committee which will, with the support of all YUFE student representatives, represent all YUFE students in the academic year 2021/2022. Student representatives of the University of Rijeka continue their active participation in the YUFE Alliance. Marija Špoljarić, student at the UNIRI Faculty of Economics and Business, was elected secretary of the YUFE Student Forum, thus becoming part of the new YUFE Committee. The new president of YUFE Student Forum is Paulien Decorte

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new risks to workers’ health, both physical and mental. For that reason, YUFE has decided to focus on the theme ''Employees’ Wellbeing'' during the Academy 2021. What to expect? A series of online lectures, activities, and inspiring workshops related to ''Employees’ Wellbeing'', organised by all 10 YUFE academic partners. The topics that will be covered on the 1st and the 2nd of D...

YUFE - The Virtue of Engagement Wondering how you can co-create the European values in education and science? Curious to know how we can respond to the challenges of the contemporary crisis of democracy?  Join us on November 11, 2021 at 4 pm CET on the first Online YUFE Alumni Event “YUFE - The Virtue of Engagement” and find out more about the role YUFE has in...

The YUFE Career Development Track Programme is designed for professional service staff within our Alliance and aims to foster and support professional and personal (career) development as well as mutual learning and experience and knowledge sharing. The first call of this programme will target HR experts and staff in HR Recruitment & Selection containing sessions about the European context, career development, new trends/skills and aims to enhance the exchange between YUFE institutions. There are two (2)...

The University of Cyprus (UCY) is committed to continuing to develop innovative lifelong learning programmes, so as to provide adult and lifelong learning opportunities in the community, the workplace, and for individual learners. It is dedicated to offering them enriching educational experiences in a welcoming atmosphere with state-of-the-art facilities while being taught by the UCY academics. By enabling them to acquire new skills and knowledge, they are eventually better prepared for their current jobs, new responsibilities, or alternative careers, and are also more...

The YUFE Entrepreneurial Talk Shows allow the participant to learn from the experiences and advice of an expert in a specific area of the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) to promote an entrepreneurial mindset among students and citizens. The talks are designed as monthly meetings, each of them organized by the YUFE universities, and consist of two parts: one open to everyone who registered to the event and a second focused on YUFE students only, where they will have the opportunity to interact directly with the speaker.

Young, innovative, and strong in research: 10 universities and 4 non-academic partners are shaping a European university in the form of the YUFE Alliance (Young Universities for the Future of Europe). To mark the University of Bremen’s 50th anniversary, the YUFE Alliance’s annual meeting is taking place in Bremen on October 13 and 14, 2021. The Mayor of Bremen, Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte, will attend along with the Bremen Senator for Science, Dr. Claudia Schilling. Politic...

Following a successful first round, YUFE is now accepting applications for three-year YUFE postdoc positions at 8 YUFE institutions within our YUFE Postdoctoral Programme. YUFE provides early career researchers with excellent research conditions, dedicated mentoring, and the opportunity to co-create one of the first European Universities. Unique networking events and mobility schemes across YUFE and career development opportunities within YUFE and beyond are at the center of the YUFE Postdoctoral Pro...