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Bolzano-Bozen’s SWAP project aims to overcome digital divide

SWAP is an intergenerational project which aims to overcome the digital divide that excludes a non-technological segment of the adult population from accessing public services dedicated to our citizens. As...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 27 March 2023

Emperor Maximilian Prize for European service now open for applications

The Emperor Maximilian Prize of the City of Innsbruck and the Region of Tyrol offers the opportunity to highlight and honour projects and initiatives from all areas of life that...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 22 March 2023

Life is also paying your bills: new ‘StudentSOS’ column answers students’ queries

Problems with bills and utilities, difficulties with leases, disruptions with trains and planes. Very often our students, living away from home, find themselves facing difficult situations without knowing who to...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 17 March 2023

2023 Kaiser Otto Prize awarded to Slovakian President Zuzana Čaputová

Magdeburg awards the Kaiser Otto Prize every two years, honouring personalities with outstanding achievements in the field of European unification, particularly with regard to the countries of Eastern and Southeastern...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 14 March 2023

West University of Timișoara hosts ‘Smart Diaspora 2023’

The West University of Timisoara (UVT) is preparing for the largest Romanian diaspora conference, Smart Diaspora 2023. The event gathers over one thousand Romanians living abroad and working in science...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 8 March 2023

ENLIGHT alliance invites proposals for its second Global Dialogue

Our partners at the University of Ghent have asked us to share this information with our partners and contacts. We encourage students at any of our partner institutions to submit...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 6 March 2023

Málaga welcomes international visitors to Transfiere 2023 and Erasmus+ training week

The scientific-technological offer of the University of Málaga (UMA) was once again featured in the 12th edition of Transfiere held on 15-17 February in Málaga. This European Forum for Science,...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 27 February 2023

Linköping researchers focus on inclusion

Can youth sports be a tool for creating inclusion and combating segregation? Activities organised in a non-traditional way in communities where the target group is located may be precisely that,...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 20 February 2023

West University of Timisoara open a survey on students in the labour market

The LMI-EUniv Erasmus+ project (run by West University of Timisoara, PROSPEKTIKER, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Tallinn University and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)), has launched a European survey to find out how European...
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Posted by Katherine Shingler on 6 February 2023

Lausanne announces Interact projects for 2023

Now in its fifth year, the Interact programme has invited researchers from UNIL and employees of the City of Lausanne to collaborate once again on shared projects. By not imposing...
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Posted by Design Studio on 23 January 2023

Comon: Ghent’s urban living lab

“Knowledge is important. But we tend to get hung up in that part of the process sometimes,” says researcher Bas Baccarne. He prefers it when thinking also leads to doing....
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Posted by Design Studio on 17 January 2023

A student’s experience of the EUniverCities meeting on sustainable urban development in Innsbruck

In November 2023, I travelled to Innsbruck in Austria for the EUnivercities network conference on sustainable urban development. EUniverCities is a European network in which medium sized cities and universities work in tandem...
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Posted by Design Studio on 11 January 2023

Exeter City consults the university community on its development plans

Photo: Visitors to the Liveable Exeter/Exeter City Futures stall at the Forum building, University of Exeter. The Exeter Plan sets out a sustainable approach to city planning: rather than including...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 December 2022

Researching and designing memory

100 years ago, at the beginning of October 1922, leading exponents of national fascism led a violent expedition in Bolzano with the aim of removing the mayor, Julius Perathoner. He...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 November 2022

City and university in tandem on the road to sustainability

“For us, acting sustainably always means acting on a European level and thinking about the world, accepting that in the end we can only master the really urgent tasks together”,...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 November 2022

Labour market changes and midlife workers in focus at West University of Timisoara

The European Mid-Life Skills Review is implemented by the Trade Union Congress (UK) in partnership with West University of Timisoara (RO), Prospektiker Instituto Europeo de Prospectiva Y Estrategia SA and Servicio...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 November 2022

“Knowledge Bites”: the research of the University of Parma meets the city

The location for this series of events is ParmaUniverCity Info Point, the information and reception point of the University of Parma in the underpass of the Roman Bridge: a significant...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 October 2022

The University of Magdeburg becomes a “European University”

Photo © Jana Dünnhaupt/OVGU  As a member of the EU GREEN university network, the University of Magdeburg will become a “European University” together with eight other universities, also including fellow...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 October 2022

News from UMCS and the City of Lublin

The European Enterprise Promotion Awards competition identifies and recognizes the best promoters of enterprise and entrepreneurship in Europe. It showcases the best principles and practices in entrepreneurship, raises public awareness of...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 October 2022

Linköping University’s “Pillow Project” recycling initiative is a hit

“Sustainability is a key priority for LiU” The Pillow Project is a new collaboration between Linköping University and its student associations. The recycling initiative where new international students may buy...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 September 2022

Lausanne, the first city in Switzerland to join the UNESCO network of learning cities

Learning cities enable people of all ages and backgrounds to benefit from inclusive quality education and formal and informal lifelong learning opportunities. In doing so, these cities promote individual empowerment...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 September 2022

EUniverCities Innsbruck meeting: Tackling “Urban Sustainable Development”

Contributing to the achievement of the SDGs is an integral part of the EUniverCities network’s ambition. The UniverCity’s influence on sustainable urban development is manifold and the Innsbruck meeting will...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 July 2022

Looking at our city through different eyes: students working with the city of Ghent

With no less than 80,000 students and researchers, Ghent is home to a lot of bright minds. So why not involve all this intelligence in the challenges we face as...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 July 2022

Engaging with local communities: University of Exeter establishes a new Community Panel

As part of its commitment to these actions, the University has developed a Community Panel to help identify local issues, challenges and opportunities, and to support the development of an...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 July 2022

University of Málaga runs a new vocational course for students with special needs

This degree is a project included within the university training programmes for the employment of young people with special educational needs, within the framework of the ONCE Foundation’s call for...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 July 2022

West University of Timisoara kicks off a new project

The main goal of the project is to explore how European Universities are using labour market information and labour market intelligence in the planning and delivery of their provision and...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 July 2022

The University of Málaga loans the City of Málaga a building for the Philharmonic Orchestra

This transfer is the first step towards the rehabilitation of these rooms by the Municipal Housing Institute, with the ultimate aim of converting them into a rehearsal space for the...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 June 2022

Parma in the Mission 100 climate-neutral and smart cities

Parma had responded to the European Commission’s expression of interest last January along with 376 other cities. Europe was looking for 100 climate neutral and smart cities willing to participate...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 June 2022

Staying on in Magdeburg after graduation

With about 5,000 visitors, the premiere of the “JobsHere” careers fair at Magdeburg‘s Unicampus came to a successful close on the evening of 22 June 2022. Among the guests were...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 June 2022

The EUniverCities Network meets in Exeter to discuss collaborative approaches to arts and culture

A keynote speech from Charles Landry, the internationally renowned author of The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Development, set the tone. Amidst the chaos, division and homogeneity of modern life,...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 June 2022

CaST project publishes a new volume on Engaged Learning

The project focuses on how universities can work more effectively and more inclusively within their city communities by providing students with opportunities to work on local societal challenges. In particular,...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 May 2022

UMCS Lublin takes action to help Ukrainian refugees – and other updates from Lublin

At the beginning of March, a team supporting Ukraine was established at the University. The team hold weekly meetings to discuss activities supporting Ukrainian students, doctoral students and employees at...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 May 2022

Innsbruck supports partner university in Ukraine

Around 180 delegates from all over Europe met at Universität Innsbruck: they are part of the Aurora University Network, which Universität Innsbruck joined in 2019 and whose annual network meeting...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 May 2022

Students at the Comon Make-a-Ton in Ghent come up with innovative healthcare solutions

Comon? Comon is a collective of scientists, technologists and creatives from the City of Ghent, imec, Ghent University and De Krook Library. Comon wants to make Ghent an (even) better,...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 April 2022

The University of Exeter prepares for the launch of a new Community Partnership Hub

Students and academics at the University already engage closely with charities and other voluntary organisations, but our research shows that at present these connections can be quite ad hoc, and...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 April 2022

Research for the development of the last mile by public transport in Magdeburg

Photographer: Olga Biletska, OVGU Magdeburg The bus travelled on a 2.3 km loop route, making 4 stops to connect an area of the southern downtown with the Rothehornpark. It ran...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 March 2022

University students come up with a game to bring tourism to Málaga’s districts

They present ‘EnigMálaga’ as ‘a visionary, innovative, fun, instructive, revitalising, profitable, sustainable, replicable, integrative and flexible project, capable of re-launching the use of the city’s potential, distributing the flow of...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 March 2022

The City and University of Málaga work together to excavate the “Cerro del Villar”

Image by FUNDACIÓN MÁLAGA In 2017, researchers from Málaga, led by the University of Málaga (UMA) professor of the Prehistory José Suárez Padilla and commissioned by the Municipal Urban Planning Department...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 March 2022

Timisoara and Lublin mobilise to support Ukrainian refugees

Photo by carefulweb Timisoara for Ukraine The Municipality of Timisoara is coordinating a local solidarity committee of about 30 organisations named “Timisoara for Ukraine” to provide support to the refugees arriving...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 March 2022

MagdeMINT: Technology and Natural Sciences for Young People

Photo by Andreas Lander Under the leadership of the state capital Magdeburg, “MagdeMINT” brings together local STEM stakeholders. The first partners have come together with the project partners Otto von...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 March 2022

Lausanne city and university work together on “Gender and the City”

Six tandem teams submitted projects, of which three were selected and will be carried out during the calendar year 2022: “Préaux en tous genres” aims to observe, document and analyse...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 February 2022

Lublin Development Strategy 2030

he Lublin 2030 Strategy is the result of a complex participatory process, with city-dwellers as the co-authors of the development vision and concept, said Krzysztof Żuk, Mayor of Lublin. Work on...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 January 2022

Innsbruck kicks off new “House of Physics”

The “House of Physics” will find its home at Universität Innsbruck’s Campus Technik in the west of the Tyrolean capital. The architectural competition for the planning of the new building...
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Posted by Design Studio on 1 January 2022