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" ...

Since 2016, the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India celebrates Ayurveda Day on the occasion of celebrating Dhanwantari Jayanti and undertakes various activities globally on Ayurveda4Health. This year's Ayurveda Day will be celebrated on November 13, 2020. The Indian Government cooperates with local organizations/institutes, and embassies of India throughout the world, and actively promotes Indian culture, tradition, and customs. This year, to mark the occasion,...

The YUFE academic Staff Journey begins! The first YUFE Postdoctoral Program Call is now open. Have you recently finished your Ph.D. and do you have a keen research interest in European Identity? Apply for a three-year YUFE postdoc position at one of our YUFE universities – and take part in the research activities of one of the first European Universities! The postdoc positions are open to promising early-career researchers holding a Ph.D. The pro...

Experience Europe right at your doorstep and co-create the future of both your region and Europe. The Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance aims to create a European University but to also bring local communities and universities closer together. One of the first concrete steps in this framework is the YUFE Help Desks. YUFE Help Desks will provide citizens with the opportunity to ask questions on different topics, e.g. legal issues, entrepreneurial advice, digital tools...

The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), one of the members of the YUFE Alliance, is offering various soft skills courses, implemented and financed under the IDUB project. The courses officially start on October 21 at 1.00 PM. Employees (teaching and administrative staff), students, and doctoral students can choose from as many as 44 online courses - in Polish and English. The training courses cover five thematic areas:- team ...

Are you looking for opportunities to study in Croatia? On Thursday, 29.10., University of Rijeka is going to participate in EURASIA virtual edu fair intended for prospective students from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine. By registering on the fair website, you can check our profile, leave your contacts, join the real-time presentation or chat live with our representatives from different study programs. Find out details about our study programs in English and let us...

We take this opportunity to invite all interested students, professors, and citizens to join the first edition of the YUFE Academy, a joint initiative of all members of YUFE European University, whose aim is to share knowledge and enable students, staff, and interested citizens to get the real feel of YUFE. During the 5 weeks in November and December, 4 online lectures a week will take place at different YUFE universities, thus enabling the participants to 'travel' around Europe, i.e. to virtually vi...

Thanks to the long-term cooperation of the Institute for Humanistic Research of Chung-Ang University in Seoul with the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka, the University of Rijeka has the honor to co-organize the 3rd International Conference on Humanistic Aspects of Artistic Intelligence (ICAIH 2020). This cooperation is further strengthened by the agreement between the University of Seoul and the Documentation and Research Center for Europe...

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is organizing an international networking event on the topic of Horizon 2020’s European Green Plan call. The event is set to take place on Friday, October 23, 2020. The event aims to bring together up to 500 participants from academic and industrial organizations, as well as participants from public institutions and NGOs in Europe and Turkey in areas related to the European Green Plan.

As a partner in the project "Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education" (TEFCE), our University participates in creating a framework for initiating, promoting, and strengthening the involvement of higher education institutions in the community. The project resulted in the creation of the TEFCE Toolbox, an instrument through which universities can identify places and ways to improve their community activities, and within this project, our University was given a unique opportunity to identify, assess, and further develop i...

At the last session of the Steering Committee for Education Policy and Practices (CDPPE), held from September 30 to October 2, 2020, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., UNIRI Rector, was elected by secret ballot to the CDPPE Bureau as a representative of the academic community, along with Ms. Radka Wildová (Charles University, Prague). Ms. Maria Fassari (Greece) was elected as Chair of the CDPPE Bureau, and Ms. Maija Innola (Finland) as Vice-Chair. The members of the Bureau are elected for th...

At the beginning of the first semester of the academic year 2020/21, 27 students from other YUFE universities enrolled in online courses at the University of Rijeka. We are proud that these 27 students come from all nine remaining YUFE universities, thus confirming the biggest possible interest in the courses at the University of Rijeka. During the semester, these students will participate in five courses conducted at four UNIRI constituents, while in the next semester, YUFE students will be offered nine such courses.

With the community engagement (re)emerging as a policy priority in higher education, these four 2-hour interactive webinars offer participants a learning journey from the basics of community engagement in contemporary higher education over its challenges to the opportunity to find out first hand how a university can implement innovative policy tools (TEFCE Toolbox) for mapping, institutional self-reflection, supporting and further strengthening of an engaged agenda at the institution.  Series of webinars...

EU Missions aim to provide solutions to some of today's biggest societal challenges such as the fight against cancer, adaptation to climate change, clean oceans, climate-neutral cities, and healthy soil and food. The European Commission develops and creates missions together with the citizens of the European Union to ensure that missions meet the expectations and needs of citizens. At the end of June, the Mission Committees presented their

Dear UNIRI and Erasmus students, As the new academic year is approaching quickly, we would like to provide you with the latest updates and recommendations for studying at University of Rijeka in winter semester 20/21. Following the recommendations from our Health institute and Ministry of Science and Education, we are preparing for a regular on-site start of academic year, so you can continue ca...

The Rijeka branch of the volunteer organization Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is looking for new members. The Erasmus Student Network, the largest student volunteer organization, celebrated its 30th birthday in the fall. With more than 13,000 members (34,000 including so-called buddies), through 533 local sections deployed in 42 states, it assists more than 350,000 exchange students daily. Guided by the principle of students helping students, it works to promote student mobility and intercultural exchange programs. The...

The University of Rijeka has selected two new student representatives to represent UNIRI students in the YUFE Student Forum. The newly elected representatives, Paula Petrinec (Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management) and Sven Sušanj (Faculty of Law) joined the work of the YUFE Student Forum along with the previous representative Tea Dimnjašević. In August, UNIRI students participated in the elections for the YUFE Student Board, in which the UNIRI representative Tea Dimnjašević was elected to the position of ...

After presenting the YUFE introductory offer of online courses, we are happy to have encountered strong interest and a large number of registered students! At this stage, YUFE is testing its educational offer and we are therefore able to enroll only a limited number of students from each YUFE university, and we have already met the quota for the University of Rijeka. There are, however, different ways to get involved in a YUFE student journey. Although unfortunately, we can no longer receive applicat...

H.E. Mr. Ilan Mor, Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Croatia, visited the UNIRI Rectorate on Monday, July 27, 2020. The esteemed guest was welcomed by the UNIRI Rector Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D. Madam Rector Prijić-Samaržija briefly presented the University of Rijeka, emphasizing the University's projects, as well as the recent inclusion in the YUFE network (European University Network Project). Ambassador Mor thanked Madam Rector for receiving him...