Professor Marta Žuvić, Ph.D., Vice-Rector for Studies, Students and Quality Assurance of the University of Rijeka, participated in the ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the signing of the original Magna Charta Universitatum, a document signed in Bologna in 1988 by 388 rectors in the presence of many political leaders and representatives of society, which defines the key principles that support the existence of universities, such as academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Every ...

The opening ceremony of the King Sejong Institute Rijeka was held yesterday, September 19, 2022, at the University of Rijeka Rectorate. The King Sejong Institute is the leading Korean-language institute brand, which provides Korean language courses overseas and extends Korean culture. The Institute in Rijeka is only the second KSI in Croatia, after the one already established in Zagreb. The ceremony was attended by numerous distinguished guests from the Republic of Korea, the Korean Embassy in Croat...

Join us for European Researchers' Night on September 30th! Reserve the last Friday in September for the European Researchers' Night, which will take place this year in 25 European countries, including Croatia! Visitors will have the opportunity to participate in numerous exciting experiments, interactive workshops, games, educational exhibitions, and lectures in the five largest Croatian coastal cities of the Mediterranean part of Croatia: Split, Rijeka, Pula, Zadar, and Dubrovnik

The University of Rijeka is proud to announce the registrations for the Korean language course are now officially open! All interested students may now register for the winter semester (October 3 - December 16, 2022) of the Korean language course held at the newly established King Sejong Institute Rijeka. This semester only, all classes at KSI Rijeka will be offered free of charge. Register via the following

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...

In recent years, with the wide spread of media such as Netflix and Youtube, international interest in Korean culture (K-pop, K-drama, etc) has dramatically increased, and the Korean wave has arrived. Accordingly, interest and demand for the Korean language are increasing significantly not only in Asia but also in Europe. In response to this growing demand in the Europe area, two young and powerful universities, the University of Rijeka in Croatia and Sungshin Women's University in Ko...

Professor Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an honorary professor of the University of Rijeka, was listed as the second highest cited expert in the world on astrocytes - one of four types of glial cells found throughout the entire central nervous system - based on his research in the subdiscipline over the past ten years and from an analysis of the PubMed database. “Numerically, this means to be...

The University Of Cyprus invites Postdoctoral Researchers to submit applications for thirty (30) full-time Postdoctoral Research positions under the project titled “ONISILOS - Co-funding International, Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral research excellence at the University of Cyprus”. ONISILOS fellowships are available to top Researchers from around the world and within the frame of specific intersectoral and interdisciplinary disciplines and topics that can be found at the following

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 ...

The Triple E Awards are a global recognition of efforts towards the quest for entrepreneurship and engagement in higher education. It is the first award to focus specifically on different dimensions of the universities' third mission. Implemented regionally, the Triple E Awards aim to foster change in universities and to emphasise their role in their communities and ecosystems. Although the University of Rijeka was this year's first runner-up in the category of engaged universities (Engaged University of the Year) ba...

UniAdrion is to pleased to invite all interested students to apply for this year's Summer School on Sustainable Tourism – Make a difference: how to evaluate the impact of tourism development on the Adriatic-Ionian region, to be carried out under the AI-NURECC PLUS project. In short about the Summer School:  WHAT: Make a difference: How to evaluate the impacts of tourism development on the Adriatic-Ioni...

The representatives of the Technical University of Graz, technological and industrial partners of the Technical University of Graz, the Lürssen Group, the Maritime Center of Excellence, Gitone Kvarner and the Maritime Innovation Cluster (MARInn) visited the University of Rijeka Rectorate on Monday, July 18, 2022, to discuss possible avenues of collaboration. The esteemed guests presented their work and projects to identify potential joint activities, which would strengthen international cooperation between the academic community and industry.

European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond. The event will take place online on 28 and 29 September 2022, allowing everyone to get involved from anywhere. This year’s European Research and Innovation Days gi...

A peer-learning visit to our University was held from July 11 - 13, 2022 as part of the SHEFCE project. During the three-day program the University of Rijeka hosted guests from the following institutions: Technological University Dublin, University for Continuing Education Krems, Ghent Uni...

Rector of the University of Rijeka, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., was declared "Woman of the Year" by the "Zaposlena" magazine. The award ceremony was held yesterday, July 12, 2022, on the terrace of the Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb, under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia. Upon receiving the award, Rector Prijić-Samaržija stated: Recognition of work fills women with satisfaction. A busy woman is the one who works. All nominees deserve this award equally. T...

Five members of the EMBO Council, a new chair, and a vice-chair were appointed at the EMBO Council meeting in Heidelberg on 24 and 25 May 2022. EMBO Council is the governing body of EMBO. According to the EMBO Statutes and Rules, it consists of nine members who are elected by the EMBO Members and Associate Members, and six members who are co-opted by Council. The 15 members serve for a period of three years and may be re-elected for one additional term. Each year, five Council members are replaced: three by direct el...

YUFE, a socially engaged universities network The University of Rijeka was proclaimed a runner-up in the category of the Engaged University of the Year at the Triple E Awards ceremony held in Florence on June 28, 2022. As the official University of Rijeka representative, Prof. Senka Maćešić, Ph.D., Vice-Rector for Digitalization and Development, presented the "University that Expands New Horizons", pointing out UNIRI's joint projects with the community an...

Mrs. Estelle Marie Victorine Halimi, Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of the French Republic to the Republic of Croatia, and Mr. Benoît Le Devedec, Attaché for Language and Educational Cooperation at the French Institute in Zagreb, visited the University of Rijeka Rectorate on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, where they were welcomed by UNIRI Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D. The guests arrived accompanied by Ms. Jasna Bas, Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation at the French Institute.

Rector of the University of Rijeka, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., participated in this year's Global Forum on “Higher Education Leadership for Democracy, Sustainability, and Social Justice”, hosted by Dublin City University on June 16-17, 2022. The Forum brought together higher education leaders and representatives of public authorities and local, regional, national, and international organizations with a common goal: to provide an opportunity to critically explore and actively advance higher education’s role in cons...

On 1 July 2022, from 10:30 to 12:30 (CEST), the Young European Research Universities Network is organising an online event for the launch of its paper “Rethinking Academic Careers: cultural change as a key bottleneck to be addressed”. This YERUN paper aims to contribute to the current work at EU level on the reform of research assessment. Since March 2021, YERUN has been working very closely with the European Commission (EC) in shaping this EU initiative by providing input to dif...

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...