Dear and esteemed colleagues, International Women's Day is once again an opportunity to review the state of gender equality at universities and beyond, as well as to open up some new discussions. While a few women were recognized and renowned in the history of science, the numbers have improved today. Although only thirty women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in the past hundred years, from the beginning of 1901 to 2000, the same number of women have been given this most prestigious prize in the last two decades. T...

The Agency for Mobility and EU Programs will hold an online info day on Mentoring Activities in MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Projects on Friday, March 24, 2023, from 10:00 to 13:30 via the Zoom platform. The information day aims to familiarize participants with the roles that mentors take on throughout a cycle of Postdoctoral Fellowships. This includes the project proposal writing process and application, as well as the eventual implementation of Postdoctoral Fellows...

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,

From March 7 to 13 at the Student Cultural Centre (SKC) Gallery, the SKC activist art program will be held to honor International Women's Day. In anticipation of women's day, the Student Cultural Centre of the University of Rijeka is organizing a seven-day activist program focusing on the importance of human rights, gender equality, and activism, as well as an exhibition presenting the works of eight young artists. The program will be held from March 7 to 13 at the SKC Gallery (addre...

Under the European Regional Development Fund, the European Commission has adopted a new two-year programme for the I3 Instrument. The Interregional Innovation Investment Instrument (I3) creates links for interregional cooperation, bringing together stakeholders from different regions of the EU who invest in joint innovation projects within the framework of the Smart Specialization Strategy (S3). We encourage you to study in detail the opportunities listed in the new programme and establish contacts with partners in t...

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...

In the solemn atmosphere and beautiful setting of the Sugar Refinery Palace in Rijeka, the University of Rijeka Rector, Professor Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, was awarded the title of the Knight of National Order of Merit (Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite) for her dedication and relentless promotion of friendly ties and scientific and university cooperation between Croatian and French institutions. The French National Order of Merit, awarded by French President ...

YERUN Open Science Awards 2022 ceremony was held online on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Almost 60 participants took part in this joyful event aimed at celebrating Open Science and highlighting the need to foster it in universities. As highlighted by Ms. Silvia Gomez Recio, YERUN Secretary General in her welcome speech, Open Science has been a priority for YERUN since its establishment. This awards scheme is a testament to our network’s effort to incentivize and reward practices that go the extra mile in promoting Op...

Registrations for the new semester at King Sejong Institute Rijeka are officially open! KSI Rijeka offers Korean language classes and a Korean culture class to all interested students. If you want to get systematic Korean language learning, you can take the regular course. This semester, two levels of Korean language classes will be available. Level A1 is for very beginners who never learned the Korean language before, and level B1 is for students who have completed level A1.

The Faculty of Law in Rijeka is a partner in the organization of an international conference that will be held live in Luxembourg on February 21, 2023, with the possibility of online streaming, named Economic and legal aspects of the organization of football in Europe. The conference is organized by the University of Luxembourg and the Centre de Droit et d'Economie du Sport (CDES) from Limoges - France. More about the event

On February 8, 2023, the International Mobility Center of the University in Rijeka, located at the University Campus, in the building of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, organized the Erasmus Welcome Day – an info-day for incoming Erasmus students who have come to study at our University for the twelfth year as part of the Erasmus program. Around 156 students arrived at the University in Rijeka in the summer semester. The Academy of Applied Arts will host seven students: one stude...

Brunel University is participating in UK Hydrogen Week by running a series of Hydrogen Webinars entitled Thinking Differently in Hydrogen. There will be one webinar each day a 1 PM (13.00), with an academic from Brunel University partnered with an industrial speaker developing applications, and time for Q&A. The program is the following: Monday, February 13: H2 Living LabsTuesday, February 14:...

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership has selected 9 Hydrogen Valley projects following its first call proposals (2022). The total funding requested for the 9 Hydrogen Valleys amounts to EUR 105.4 million. The University of Rijeka, along with its partners, the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture of the University of Split, has become a part of the great North Adriatic Hydrogen Val...

The Center for Advanced Studies of Southeast Europe of the University of Rijeka invites you to the launch of the book Governments’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe: Navigating the Perfect Storm, with a focus on South-Eastern Europe. The event is scheduled for Friday, February 3, 2023, at 12 PM (CET) via Zoom. ABOUT THE BOOK: The Covid-19 pandemic erupting in 2020 represented the perfect storm for national political systems...

YUFE, ECIU and EPICUR will lead an innovative approach to the European Degree label through the FOCI (Future-proof Criteria for Innovative European Education) project! FOCI partners will lead a pilot project to shape the future European Degree (label) and pilot an innovative approach with strong support of the European Commission. The European Degree label is an opportunity to innovate our education and to co-create, upscale and deepen the European dimension in learning. In doing so, ...

YERUN is delighted to start the year by welcoming a new member to its network: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń has officially joined YERUN! With this new membership, YERUN expands its representation to another country on the European map: Poland. Nicolaus Copernicus University, with its strong research and educational profile, is a perfect fit for our network and it will contribute to strengthening YERUN's voice in European policies related to Research, Innovation, and Education. The full pr...

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun invites all students, including Ph.D. students, to the virtual Interdisciplinarity in research – Winter Camp at NCU, which will take place on February 20-24, 2023. Participation is completely free of charge and financed by NAWA funds. The Winter Camp includes: 1 week of online learning, discovering, and spe...

*We regret to inform you that the presentation is canceled due to the presenter's illness.* The Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka (CAS SEE UNIRI) invites you to the presentation of the DBU-CEE Fellowship Programme with Croatia | Fellowships for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for environmental and nature conservation, which will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 11 AM (CET) at Akvarij (Kampus Restaurant), Radmile M...

At the end of this year, we are happy to announce that the YERUN Annual Report 2022 is now available online! Embark on the journey and look back on the successful work done this year by YERUN and its members and the precious memories accompanying it. We look back at a very intense, yet inspiring year, in which we have finally gone back to meeting in person after two long years of virtual meetings only. This was an excellent opportunity to welcome our new members into the network and strengthen cooperation among part...

The UNIRI Faculty of Law, through its Center for Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy and the Jean Monnet Chair for EU Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy, in cooperation with the prestigious association of sports experts Sport&EU Association, organized a roundtable discussion and debate on Monday, December 19, 2022, elaborating on the opinions of the Advocate General in the cases European Superleague (C-333/21) and International Skating Union (C-124/21 P), which are pending before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, and which were published on ...

Jean Monnet Student Sports Law Conference was held on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka, i.e. Sports Law, Sports Policy and Sports Diplomacy Centre, in cooperation with its Jean Monnet Chair in EU Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy (Croatia) and Edge Hill University. This is the second such conference, now named Jean Monnet Conference. We are very proud of our students Eleonora Petković who presented her paper ''Anti-discriminati...

The seventh PLSM (Project Learning and Support Meeting), the consortium meeting of the SPEAR project, was held in Kaunas and Vilnius, Lithuania, from December 5-7, 2022. The meeting brought together representatives of partner institutions from Denmark, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden and Croatia. The meeting provided an opportunity to raise awareness of the similarities and differences in the cultures and environments in which the partner institutions operate and to identify possible activitie...

H.E. Mr. Hendrik Jan Voskamp, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic of Croatia, visited the University of Rijeka for the very first time on Friday, December 9, 2022. The Ambassador arrived at Campus accompanied by Ms. Lea Šiljak, Senior Policy Officer for Political Affairs at the Embassy, and Ms. Milou Makaske, Intern at the Embassy, where he was warmly welcomed by the University of Rijeka Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D. In t...

Professor Maurizio Fermeglia, Ph.D., full professor at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Trieste and former Rector of the University of Trieste, Italy, held a lecture entitled Hydrogen and global warming: the energy carrier of the future at the University of Rijeka Campus on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. The esteemed lecturer and all participants were warmly welcomed by the University of Rijeka Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., while Prof. Saša Zelenika, Ph.D., Vice-Rector for Strategic Projec...

As part of the global campaign entitled "16 days of activism against gender-based violence" and the UNIGEM project (University and Gender Mainstreaming) coordinated by the TPO Foundation from Sarajevo, the University of Rijeka organized many activities, in cooperation with teaching and professional staff and students, marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The first activity included a visit to the Department of Pedagogy of t...

The Rijeka King Sejong Institute is happy to announce that two special Korean culture events will be held at the University of Rijeka Campus on December 2 and 9! We invite everyone interested in Korean culture to join the events and dive into the curiosities of Korean culture. K-Beauty ClassWHEN: Friday, December 2, 2022, 17.00 - 19.00WHERE: UNIRI Departments' building, ground floor (room O-027)Korean worldwide cosmetics ...

YERUN members have met from 28 to 30 November for their Autumn General Assembly in Maastricht. A core topic on the agenda related to the ongoing discussions and initiatives to change research assessment in Europe: at national levels, the Dutch Initiative Room for Everyone’s Talent and the Norwegian NOR-CAM, and at European level, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, CoARA. YERUN leaders have reflected on the changing demands and the increasing expectations for universities. They have discussed the contr...

H.E. Mr. Ruaidhri Mark Dowling, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to the Republic of Croatia, visited the University of Rijeka Campus on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, where he was welcomed by the University of Rijeka Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D. Ambassador Dowling and Rector Prijić-Samaržija discussed the importance of internationalization, innovative educational programs, brain drain, the problem of distrust in educational institutions, the continuous decline in the number ...

The call for the YERUN Open Science Awards 2022 is now open! If you are you a researcher or a staff member from a YERUN partner university and you or your team have initiated an activity on Open Science at your institution, YERUN invites you to apply for the YERUN Open Science awards! The scope of the Awards is to encourage and reward Open Science initiatives, of different kinds, across the YERUN network. The awa...

On Thursday, November 3, 2022,  the University of Rijeka hosted a meeting with the aim of disseminating the results of the projects Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education - TEFCE and Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement –