The Unite! Seed Fund aims to achieve the maximum potential of Unite! It is envisioned to provide financial support to innovate, co-creative and collaborative ideas from teachers, researchers and students across the Unite! alliance. The Seed Fund intends to support exploration and development of attractive and diverse activities and projects, to help secure either additional funds for a project or to carry out joint, ambitious and innovative ideas within the alliance.
The aim of Unite! is to be an innovative, collaborative, inclusive and sustainable alliance. Through its ambition to realise excellence in education, research, and innovation by creating new opportunities, Unite! University alliance invites the entire Unite! community (Teaching staff, Teaching and learning units, Researchers and research Units, Students and student associations) to send proposals of collaborative projects for its first round of Seed funding.
The funding is open to all subjects and topics and is aimed at both in-person, hybrid, and purely digital formats.
All applications will go through Metacampus, Unite!'s digital platform. Applications open on 15 March 2023 and deadlines for submissions vary from 15 to 31 May 2023 depending on the topic of the proposal. - Download the Call for proposals for “Unite! Seed fund for Teaching and Learning”
- Download the Call for proposals for “Unite! Seed fund for Research and PhD”
- Download the Call for proposals for “Unite! Seed fund for Student Activity”
- Teachers (Professors, academic staff)
- Teaching & Learning units
- Doctoral Researchers
- Early-career Researchers (e.g., Post-docs, Ad-hoc lecturer/professor etc.)
- Research Units (i.e., Doctoral Schools/programmes, Research centres, PhD communities etc.)
- Tenured Researchers (e.g., Professors, Associate Professors etc.)
- Under- and Postgraduate students (including PhD Students)
- Student organisations/associations
- Units and service centres of Unite! Universities (such as sports unions, language centres etc.)
Personnel costs should be included with clear justification (e.g., organisational tasks, conceptualising, preparatory work, accrediting, applying, setting up conditions) Travel expenses (sustainable modes of travel preferred, Erasmus+ mobility schemes should be used wherever possible) Other costs that can be funded include material resources, research consumables, on-site/blended workshops, external service providers (e.g., moderators, language services). Acquisition of large technical equipment and replacement of standard equipment is excluded.
- Staff cost for teaching or grants/stipends for students are not funded.
- Costs for PhD or Post-doc stipends are not funded.
- Student grants or remuneration are excluded from funding.
- Applications must comprise of research/academic staff or teachers or teaching units from at least three Unite! member universities.
- Applications must comprise of at least students or student organisations from two Unite! Member universities.
More information
- More detailed information on the application process can be found on the Unite! Seed Fund space within Metacampus.
- For inquiries, interested candidates can email Dr. Anshika Suri at: seedfund@unite-university.eu or reach out to the Key Liaison Officers / Student Liaison Officers at their university.