King Sejong Institute, which provides Korean-language education throughout the world, will open 23 more branches in 19 countries this year, and the University of Rijeka in Croatia is also on the list, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and King Sejong Institute Foundation announced on June 16. A combined 82 organizations from 39 countries applied for branches this year. Through a very demanding screening process, the Institute's designated review committee selected 23 candidates based on the demand for Kore...

Are you an early career researcher from a YERUN institution looking for international research collaboration? Then don’t miss the opportunity to apply to the YERUN Research Mobility Awards 2022! The YERUN Research Mobility Awards (YRMA) are competitive awards for early career researchers (PhD candidates and post-docs) equivalent to Euraxess Research Profiles R1 (up to the point of PhD) and R2 (PhD holders, post-doc or equivalent who are not yet fully independent or until 8 years since comp...

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 ...

Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) offers 10 (ten) two-year scholarships (academic years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024), funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to students coming from the EUSAIR countries (European Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region. The selected candidates will become eligible for the above-mentioned scholarships after they have enrolled in one of the following Master’s Courses at Università Politecnica delle Marche: Biomedical ...

At the beginning of the year, UniAdrion conducted a survey among the students to get more information about the level of consciousness about EUSAIR (EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region). The result was that 94,8 % of students do not know what EUSAIR is. For this reason, UniAdrion decided to organize an intensive training course on EUSAIR to increase the knowledge of EUSAIR and foster interregional cooperation in the area. The course is organized under the umbrella of the EUSAIR4YOUTH project! The course is...

Professor Aida Myrzakanovna Tologonova, Ph.D., Rector of the Kyrgyz-German Institute for Applied Informatics (INAI.KG), visited the University of Rijeka Rectorate on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. This is the Rector's first visit to Rijeka since signing a 2021 Cooperation Agreement with the UNIRI Faculty of Economics and Business. Rector Tologonova was greeted by Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., UNIRI Rector, along with Assis. Prof. Marko Tomljanović, Ph.D., Vice...

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...

Are you an early career researcher from a YERUN institution looking for international research collaboration? Then stay tuned! The YERUN Research Mobility Awards call 2022 will open soon (13 June 2022)! This year, the scheme will award up to 40 collaborations. Have a look at the 2022 call

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.

On Monday, May 16, 2022, a public forum on gender and gender identity in modern society was held at the Rijeka City Hall. The forum was held on the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), which is celebrated on May 17. The forum was organised by the Gender Equality Council of the University of Rijeka in cooperation with the Rijeka Association LORI. Participants: Dubravka Jurišić Eržen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka; Jasminka Juretić, University Counse...

The University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law and its Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sport Diplomacy Centre with its Head - Assoc. Prof. Vanja Smokvina was the host to key stakeholders who met in Rijeka (Croatia) on May 13, 2022 to debate on Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Elite Athletes in Olympic sports at the fourth conference of the

Representatives of Sungshin Women’s University from Seoul, South Korea visited the University of Rijeka Rectorate on Monday, May 9, 2022. The three-member delegation was led by SWU President, Prof. Bo Kyung Yang, Ph.D., who was accompanied by Ms. Mi Jung Kim, Assistant Manager, International Affairs and Services, SWU, and Ms. Bokyoung Kweon, Program Coordinator, Sungshin Institute of International Education. The esteemed guests, for whom this is the first visit to ...

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 team SPEAR of the University of Rijeka has won the "Fierce Women Award" 2022, which is awarded for the third consecutive year by the portal Voxfeminae.net and the social enterprise Fierce Women to prominent individuals and organisations that have distinguished themselves through creativity, action and achievements in the past year. For a significant contribution to gender equality, justice and social balance in Croatia in the past period, there were over 80 nominations from individuals and organisations from vari...

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 ...

Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of Croatia, H.E. Mr. Ilan Mor, visited the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka on Thursday, April 21, 2022. He met with the Dean, Prof. Aleksandar Mijatović, Ph.D., and the representatives of the Department of History to discuss the idea of introducing a systematic education on the Holocaust. During his visit, Ambassador Mor had the opportunity to exchange ideas with the students, emphasizing his satisfaction th...

Due to the war in Ukraine and the large number of those who have arrived or will arrive to the Republic of Croatia, University of Rijeka offers students from Ukraine the opportunity to send their applications for inclusion in the teaching process at our University. Students are invited to send all the necessary information (name and surname, institution they are coming from, program, field, and year of study) to the e-mail address international@uniri.hr  , so...

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 Centre for Advanced Studies of Southeast Europe (CAS-SEE) of the University of Rijeka is proud to host Marjan Hočevar from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Center for Spatial Sociology (FDV – CPS), who will hold a seminar on April 14, 2022, on the topic ''How an architect reflects society''. ''The title of this presentation suggests a confrontation and critique of architectural practice. But that's not the point. Architects are often r...

After more than two years of virtual meetings, YERUN members have met again in person in Madrid on 31 March 2022, on the occasion of the General Assembly hosted by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The meeting was held in a hybrid format, allowing colleagues who could not join in person to participate virtually. The General Assembly was the first one to be chaired by the YERUN President Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., Rector of the University of Rijeka, who was elected in September ...

The European Knowledge Valorisation Week, organized by the European Commission, the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, the EU Member States, and EEA countries, was held from March 29 to April 1, 2022. European Knowledge Valorisation Week brought together a large number of European experts and policy-makers to discuss and exchange experiences on available capacities and skills for knowledge valorisation in the European Union, but also on ways to improve investment in innovation and resea...

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 ...

As part of the activities of the regional project University and Gender Mainstreaming (UNIGEM), representatives of the University of Rijeka held a two-day seminar in Sarajevo from 14 to 17 March 2022. Seminar, which included various workshops and practice, was attended by project coordinators, members of newly established university bodies for gender equality and other university staff. The seminar was attended by about 90 representatives from 17 universities from the region - Bosnia and Her...

The 2022 Cres – Summer School workshop raises the question of the projective character of the theory. Genuine innovation in architecture, we argue, is always a project of theory. By making visible the immanent deficits, the social conditions, and paradoxes of architecture, critical theory open up architecture to the new. This is all the more important today when under the pressure of debates about sustainability, energy balances, and certifications, architecture practice is increasingly dominated b...

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

The Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, and an honorary professor of the University of Rijeka, Dr. Erhard Busek, passed away unexpectedly during the night of 13-14 March 2022, the Institute announced on Monday morning. Busek was born in Vienna on March 25, 1941, the son of an engineer and master builder. He got his Catholic character from his family and kept it to the end. During his law studies, he was active in the Catholic youth. He began hi...

Prompted by devastating and disturbing news following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Coursera issued an official statement condemning such violent acts and sharing ultimate concern for the safety of the people in that region. As stated by Mr. Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO, ''Coursera believes learning is the source of human progress and we are committed to ensuring learners everywhere have access to the highest quality education. However, we will not support the financial or reputational benefit of Russian instru...

As indicated in the YERUN Communication Plan 2022, the focus of this month's newsletter is on Open Science. Given that YERUN Open Science Awards Ceremony took place on February 14, the February edition of the YERUN newsletter is dedicated to the practices that have been shortlisted for the awards, i.e. those from Brunel, Rijeka, Maastricht, Madrid, Antwerp, and Limerick. The proposal coming from the University of Rijeka is part of the research initiatives and projects of the Language Networks group (

The University of Rijeka has joined the #ScienceforUkraine initiative. The newly established initiative collects the necessary information and contacts for Ukrainian students and scientists who can seek help from other European universities and scientific organisations on the map. Students and scientists are welcome to contact the Vice-Rector for Studies, Students and Quality Assurance, Professor Marta Žuvić, Ph.D. at