Category: Additional initiatives

T4EU Green Transformer Summer School and Student Challenge: selected students announced

The selection process for the “T4EU Green Transformer Summer School” and the “Student Challenge – Enabling Innovative Wool Transformation Through Sustainable and Adaptive Resource Processing”, organised by the University of Primorska, has now been completed.

The activities will take place in Izola, Slovenia, from 29 June to 3 July 2026 and will bring together students from across the Transform4Europe Alliance to work on sustainability, innovation and resource transformation challenges in an international and interdisciplinary environment.

The following UniTS students have been selected to participate:

  • SP01A00109
  • GI0104368
  • SP5400535

Congratulations to the selected students and best wishes for this international learning experience within the T4EU Alliance.

For more information about the initiative:
T4EU Green Transformer Summer School in Izola

Applications Open: T4EU Sustainable Heritage Workshop in Lithuania!

The University of Trieste will select 3 students to participate in the T4EU Sustainable Heritage Workshop, Cultural Responses to War: Shaping Heritage, Building Resilience, hosted by Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania).

This intensive workshop will take place at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas) and the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum from 28 September to 2 October 2026.

PROGRAMME

The programme bridges academic theory and institutional practice. Working alongside museum professionals and mentors, students will address urgent challenges arising from the war in Ukraine, focusing on the following key areas:

  • Practical Mentorship: Solving museum-defined problems in collaborative groups.
  • Heritage at Risk: Crisis management and anti-looting strategies.
  • Weaponised History: Deconstructing propaganda and colonial legacies.
  • Cultural Resistance: Art and museums as pillars of social resilience.

Join this intensive week dedicated to protecting European heritage in an era of global crisis.
The three participants will be selected as follows:
– one BA student;
– one MA student;
– one PhD student / early-career researcher.

Students may request recognition of 3 ECTS credits.

DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026

APPLY NOW

IMPORTANT!  
Before you attend the selected course, remember to inform your “Coordinatore del Corso di Studi” and the “Segreteria didattica” of your Department, following the dedicated guidelines.
Before attending the selected course, doctoral students must also inform their Doctoral Course Coordinator and the Delegate for Doctoral Studies (delegato.dottorati@units.it).
Failure to comply will preclude credit recognition.

Join the “Data-driven Solutions for a more Sustainable Future” event in Sofia!

Are you passionate about sustainability and the future of our cities?
Do you want to learn how Artificial Intelligence can tackle climate change?

We are looking for motivated students to join the upcoming event hosted by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski as part of the Transform4Europe (T4EU) Alliance!

The event will present the opportunities and capabilities of AI and GeoAI in studying the local effects of climate change across European regions. Participants will be introduced to the latest geospatial analytics and predictive modelling to directly address natural hazards and environmental risks.

Throughout the event, you will learn how to work with scalable, workflow-oriented methodologies for analysing complex data. The focus will be on geoinformation technologies, including Generative AI and no-code/low-code solutions for handling large datasets.

Finally, participants will work in groups to solve a specific issue as part of the T4EU Stakeholder Challenge, an open innovation initiative that will connect young talents with companies and public institutions.

The University of Trieste will select 3 students to take part in the T4EU event Data-driven Solutions for a more Sustainable Future, which will include:
– a virtual session on 22 October 2026;
– a physical mobility on 26–30 October 2026.

The three participants assigned to each event will be distributed as follows:
– one person from the BA;
– one person from the MA;
– one person from the PhD/Young researcher.

The target group is focused on students with no or little programming skills.

Students can ask for recognition of 3 ECTS credits.

IMPORTANT!  
Before you attend the selected course, remember to inform your “Coordinatore del Corso di Studi” and the “Segreteria didattica” of your Department, following the dedicated guidelines.
Before attending the selected course, doctoral students must also inform their Doctoral Course Coordinator and the Delegate for Doctoral Studies (delegato.dottorati@units.it).
Failure to comply will preclude credit recognition.

What are you waiting for?

APPLY NOW


Application deadline: 24 May 2026.

“Cooperating on Sustainable Future: from Natural Sciences to Science Diplomacy” Matchmaking Event in Katowice

This event has been postponed to the week of October 19-23, 2026. The selection process will resume in August 2026.

University of Silesia in Katowice invites all interested researchers and non-academic staff to join the Transform4Europe Matchmaking Event in Katowice titled Cooperating on Sustainable Future: from Natural Sciences to Science Diplomacy, which will take place on 21-22 April 2026 in Katowice (Poland).

The event is designed in a format allowing the exchange and networking between researchers from specified disciplines.

Proposed sessions:

  • Natural sciences: biotechnology and environment
  • Natural science & food security
  • Tourism
  • Neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, and biomedical engineering
  • Science diplomacy & research communication
  • Physics
  • ChemistryMathematics
  • Environmental Law
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • International Business Law

Browse the programme.

PROGRAMME

Interested academic and non-academic experts can register through the online form until 31 March 2026.

Register

Please inform us of your intention to participate by sending an email to t4eu@units.it.

Selection process “T4EU Common European Heritage Week” in Porto

We are pleased to announce the results of the selection process for participation in the T4EU Common European Heritage Week, taking place in Porto at theUniversidade Católica Portuguesa from 16–20 March 2026.

The following candidates have been selected:

  • LE0402540
  • SP0101963
  • SP54A00002

The T4EU team at UniTS will be contacting the successful candidates in due course with further information. 

Joint Call for for Visiting Professorships

Jointly, the University of Trieste and the University of Primorska launch the Second Joint Call for Visiting Professorship, open to professors and researchers from institutions outside the T4EU Alliance.

The initiative promotes international academic mobility while strengthening scientific collaboration in key areas of digital, environmental, and social transformation.

The programme is structured around 20 days of activities (10 days at each university), featuring lectures, seminars, meetings with doctoral candidates, and research engagement across the following disciplinary fields: economics and management, interpreting and translation, history and philosophy, education sciences, mathematics, artificial intelligence and data science, biology and neurosciences, and psychology.

Application deadline: 27 February 2026.

READ THE CALL and APPLY