Eleven leading European research universities including Freie Universität Berlin have come together to create a unique alliance – Una Europa. Their common goal is to expand and strengthen existing partnerships in teaching, research, and education.

Una Europa aims to draw on our collective strengths to create a truly European inter-university environment, a University of the Future: by entering into agreements facilitating joint degree programs and doctoral research, by promoting student and staff mobility and exchanges, by increasing digital teaching programs, through joint participation in EU-funded projects and shared research networks, and last but not least, through developing innovative new formats for joint working practices.

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Current calls and information

Una Europa Early Career Host Program

The Early Career Host Program is aimed at doctoral candidates and (under-)graduate students (BA/MA) at FU Berlin who would like to gain first experiences as a host of a self-conceived, and self-organized workshop. The program can support scientific events or events for professional development that serve the exchange of knowledge, contribute to the acquisition of intercultural competencies, and provide an opportunity for networking for early career researchers.

The funding can be used for events at FU Berlin with guests from Una Europa partner universities. The program can support travel, catering, and costs for inviting external speakers / experts.

Application deadline: May 13, 2024

Further information: Una Europa Early Career Host Program • International • Freie Universität Berlin (fu-berlin.de)

Una Europa Seed Funding Call 2024

With a strong emphasis on empowering doctoral degree holders, the Una Europa Seed Funding Call 2024 supports researchers from the alliance’s 11 partner universities to pursue a collaborative research, education or outreach project with counterparts across the alliance.

Examples of Activities
A non-exhaustive list of activities includes the following examples:

• Preparation of joint modules or teaching units based on innovative teaching strategies
• Organisation of research and/or educational seminars and/or winter or summer schools
• Organisation of PhD workshops or other joint doctoral activity
• Development of research teams with a view to e.g. preparing joint proposals for external funding or joint publications
• Organisation of activities that contribute to development of early-career researchers, e.g. mentoring schemes
• Organisation of congresses or conferences to disseminate the project’s activity
• Engagement with the non-academic sector, e.g. community-based research, entrepreneurship and start-up initiatives, public outreach and science communication

Eligibility:

Seed Funding projects must involve:
• One coordinator at the Una Europa university coordinating the project;
• At least one academic lead per university at a minimum of three additional Una Europa universities;
• At least one early-career researcher at each participating partner university.

In addition, the creation of interdisciplinary research teams with the participation of other academic staff,
professional staff and students is encouraged.
For the purposes of this Seed Funding Call, early-career researchers are defined as doctoral degree holders from
any discipline who are actively pursuing research but who are not yet fully independent in these pursuits. Applicants
must be affiliated with one of the Una Europa universities and have no more than seven years of experience since
completion of the doctoral degree.

Application deadline: June 28, 2024, at 17:00 CEST

Further information: https://www.fu-berlin.de/international/network/partnership-networks/unaeuropa/news/2024-seed-funding-early-career.html