The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education for Research and Innovation (MESRI) have launched a visiting fellowship program to welcome young researchers wishing to carry out their research in France as part of a "One Health" approach. The "One Health" concept promotes an integrated, systemic approach to human, animal and ecosystem health at local, national and global scales. This approach provides a better understanding of the causes and consequences of the f...

The European Commission awarded the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021-2027 to the University of Rijeka. Pursuant to the Charter, the University of Rijeka will be able to apply for projects and participate in all activities of the new cycle of the Erasmus+ program in the next seven-year period. In accordance with the draft of the new program 2021/2027, the objectives of the new program in the field of higher education include the following:• contribute to the creation of...

Future Leaders Model United Nations is a simulation of the United Nations conference that intends to bring enthusiastic young leaders from all around the globe together and provide them with a platform to exchange and present views regarding the troubles and problems plaguing the present world. This forum will be an ideal place to understand and learn about the personality-building skills needed to become a better speaker and a diplomat. One cannot deny the importance of having soft skills in an individual for making it big in this modern era.

In January 2021 a new Erasmus+ sports project named Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe (EMPLOYS) has started. The Project is coordinated by Deutsche Sporthohlschule Köln (Germany) and the University of Rijeka, in partnership with the UNIRI Faculty of Law, together with Universidade Europeia (Portugal), Edge Hill University (United Kingdom), Institute for Sports Governance (Poland), and athletes’ representatives: European Elite Athletes...

The International Mobility Office/Erasmus of the University of Rijeka has held an online welcome day on 1 March 2021 for Erasmus students who will be spending their summer semester 2020/2021 at the University of Rijeka. Twelve constituents of the University of Rijeka were to welcome 164 students, but some have canceled their stay due to the COVID-19 situation, with 117 students deciding to spend their summer semester at the University of Rijeka. The Academy of Applied Arts will ...

At the solemn election session of the Senate of the University of Rijeka held on Friday, 26 February 2021, at the UNIRI Rectorate, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., has been re-elected for her second term of office by a unanimous decision of all members of the Senate. The election session was held in the Aula Magna of the Rectorate, with a minimum number of members and in compliance with current epidemiological measures. The Committee for the Implementation of the Procedure ...

Igor Mezić, professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, member of the UNIRI International Scientific Council and honorary professor of the University of Rijeka, has been named the recipient of the biennial Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Dynamical Systems (SIAG/DS) J. D. Crawford Prize, established in 2000. The Crawford Prize recognizes contributions from a paper addressing fundamental issues in...

The Polish Academy of Sciences has launched the PASIFIC Fellowship Programme, co-financed by the European Commission under the MSCA COFUND scheme. Its main goal is to enable 50 scientists of any nationality, with a doctoral degree or a min. of 4-year full-time research experience, to spend two years at one of the Polish Academy of Sciences institutes. The PASIFIC fellows will be selected in two calls announced in 2021 – the first one will be launched soon, on March 15. On that day...

At its last session held on January 28, 2021, the University of Rijeka Senate adopted the decision to issue a call for enrollment in the first year of the graduate university study program Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, which will be conducted in English at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Rijeka in the academic year 2021/2022. The call will be issued in March 2021, and 10 students will be enrolled. Annual tuiti...

It is a pleasure to announce that the University of Limerick (UL) and the University of Rijeka (UNIRI) have officially become YERUN members! This joyful event, which marks the beginning of a new exciting era for YERUN, follows the General Assembly’s decision of October 2020 to initiate the network’s first enlargement process. YERUN warmly welcomes the new perspectives, inspiring practices, and fresh energies that these two new members will bring to the network. For YERUN, the Un...

The 44th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2021 will be held from 24 to 28 May 2021 in Opatija, with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE. This year's slogan of the conference is "ICT in Renewable Energy Technologies", and it will cover various areas of ICT application, from microelectronics, electronics, data science, biomedicine, telecommunications, through computers in education, engineering education to intelligence and business intelligence systems, robotic...

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) is proud to announce the Open Call for Proposals for the Future of Science Communication conference, to be held on 24-25 June 2021 in Berlin. The event is organised in cooperation with Wissenschaft im Dialog, the organisation for science communication in Germany. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the two-day conference aims to bring together actors...

The Department of Biotechnology of the University of Rijeka has opened applications for a new international graduate study program "Biotechnology for the Life Sciences", which will be conducted in English. The study program was devised exclusively for highly motivated individuals who want to advance in their careers pursuing biotechnological scientific research and life science research. Future students will gain a quality theoretical basis in these areas, given that the program will emphasize the acquisition of inte...

University of Antwerp is hosting this year’s HDCA Conference "Capabilities and Transformative Institutions", which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium from 13 to 15 September 2021. With a combination of onsite and online lectures, the conference will mainly focus on the 'new world' shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will focus on the issues of common vulnerability – not only to the virus, but also to policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, and authoritarian backlash.

The “Eugen Ionescu” program allows researchers from member or observer countries of the OIF and Algeria, from higher education institutions that are members of the AUF, to benefit from a 3-month research mobility in one of the 28 higher education institutions in Romania. The international call for applications is open until March 28, 2021 (11 p.m. Bucharest time, GMT+2). The “Eugen Ionescu” program is funded by the Government of Romania, th...

Assistant Dina Rešetar Maslov, Ph.D., from the Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, is the winner of the EuPA Vision and Commitment Award 2020, awarded by the European Proteomics Association (EuPA). The prize was awarded in recognition and gratitude for many years of dedicated work on networking young European scientists in proteomics. Proteomics is an interdisciplinary branch of science, which includes knowledge of biology, chemistry, and bio...

During his official stay in Rijeka on the occasion of the opening of the Hungarian House at Pećine, H.E. Mr. Péter Szijjártó, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, also visited the University of Rijeka Rectorate. The Minister was accompanied by H.E. Dr. Csaba Demcsák, Ambassador of Hungary to the Republic of Croatia, and H.E. Mr. József Magyar, Deputy Hungarian Secretary of State for the Advancement of European Cooperation. The Minister was welcomed ...

On its last session held in December 2020, the University of Rijeka Senate accepted the proposal to award the honorary doctorate of the University of Rijeka (Gradis Doctoris Honoris Causa) to Prof. Martin Paul, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical pharmacology and Rector of Maastricht University, for his personal contribution to the development of higher education and science at the University of Rijeka. The award ceremony will be held in 2021, as a part of the celebration of the Day of the Un...

The European Research Council (ERC) just announced the results of its latest ERC Consolidator Grant tender for mid-career researchers. The funding is part of the EU’s current research and innovation program, Horizon 2020, and worth in total €655 million. With this support, the new grantees will be able to consolidate their teams and have a far-reaching impact. The ERC funds the best research in Europe, and grants are awarded to scientists solely based on the e...

H.E. Mr. Ilan Mor, Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Croatia, held a lecture titled ''Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East'' on Monday, November 30, 2020. The lecture was organized by the Embassy of the State of Israel to the Republic of Croatia and the Student Council of the University of Rijeka. After welcome speeches, Ambassador began the lecture with a brief historical overview and analysis of (un)friendly relations between the countries of the Middle East and the Me...

YUFE is one of the first 17 alliances selected by the European Commission in 2019 to develop a unique model of a European University. The 14 YUFE partners aim to contribute to a more competitive, innovative and united Europe through structural cooperation in education, research, innovation, and engagement with local communities. YUFE Townhall is a 2.5-day umbrella event involving all of YUFE’s programs and activities for YUFE students, staff, and citizens. It is supposed to feature inspiring speakers from across Eu...

After joining YUFE Alliance and becoming its full member in July 2020, the University of Rijeka now has the honor and a privilege to be one of the first institutions to be invited to join the Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) since its inception in 2015. On top of that, our University will be the first university from this part of Europe to join YERUN.

Imagine that you could create your own curriculum, choosing from academic courses offered at any of the YUFE universities. You could study, learn a language, do volunteer work, and professional training (virtually) in ten different countries. The information for organizing your own individual learning experience will be at your fingertips and all activities and accomplishments will be acknowledged on your YUFE Diploma Supplement and, in the future, on a true European Diploma recognized throughout Europe. You could be part of the first group of students pil...

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced our traditional everyday education and facilitated the creation of mini virtual campi in almost every country, the YUFE Alliance has actively been working on developing the very first version of the YUFE Virtual Campus, a first building block of a unique and interactive virtual environment that contains information for all YUFE community members. It functions as the interactive r...

YUFE Alliance offers two kinds of training: for academic staff, researchers, and Ph.D. students, and for administrative staff. The YUFE Staff Program 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 trainings for all staff groups.

As gender equality is considered one of the main priorities in EU countries for strengthening the European Research Area (ERA), the Lithuanian Social Research Centre, in cooperation with Vilnius University, organized an international conference titled Gender Equality in CEE Countries: Policies and Practices 2020 - Institutional Changes through the Imple...

This edition of YUFE staff training will address different issues related to gender equality in academia and research such as disparity in access to leadership positions, principles of gender-sensitive academic communication, and implicit biases leading to stereotypical behaviors and consequently resulting in an underrepresentation of women in academia. DATE: 10-11 December 2020, 9.00 – 12.00 am CETTarget audience: non-academics (staff of different profile...

To build more accurate and comprehensive resources on institutional activity, since 2009, Clarivate has been profiling the world’s leading universities and research institutions using an exclusive set of key performance indicators for our Institutional Profiles initiative. This year, the University of Rijeka participated in the Global institutional profiles project (GIPP) and was thus included in this year’s

We notify young researchers, who earned their Ph.D. within the last three years and want to continue their career at the University of Rijeka as postdoctoral researchers within the YUFE Postdoctoral Programme on European Identity, to apply for the YUFE Postdoctoral Call and enter the procedure of postdoctoral candidate selection.  

AUF Central and Eastern Europe and AUF Partnerships Department are launching a call for projects, available to all member universities in Central and Eastern Europe, to provide them with the knowledge and support in creating sustainable projects. The call aims to identify and accompany universities willing to engage in reaching sustainable development and social entrepreneurship objectives. The 2020 call for projects is titled "Dispositif de soutien au développement de l’entrepreneuriat social à l’université" ...