Apply to Unite! Seed Fund Teaching and Learning in Unite! Focus Areas Call Summer 2024
This call is envisioned for setting up joint/collaborative teaching formats in Unite! Focus Areas, particularly exchange modules for the Master level.
The call aims to fund innovation and collaboration in Teaching and Learning in Unite! in the following focus areas:
- Sustainable Cities and Water (incl. Resilient Cities and Climate Change)
- Engineering Biology (incl. Biotechnology)
- Space
- Cybersecurity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Industry 4.0
- Energy
- Entrepreneurship
The objective of this call is to foster the creation of exchange modules within Unite!, i.e. academic programmes that allow students to study at another Unite! university – or at several other Unite! universities – for a certain period, thereby enhancing sustainable student mobility.
This call of the seed fund intends to support the creation of exchange modules – either entirely new or based on preexisting courses – amongst Unite! members, limited to the Unite! focus areas only. These can address, e.g., innovative teaching and learning formats (e.g. COIL, VECP, etc.) intercultural or international learning environments or co-creation of course modules through teaching collaboration, etc.
The funding is open to subjects and topics related to the focus areas mentioned above and is aimed at in-person, hybrid, and/or purely digital formats. The Unite! university alliance invites teaching staff, teaching, and learning units to send proposals of collaborative projects, involving as many Unite! universities as possible.
The current application call is open from 15 June until 31 August 2024.
For more details, please contact Unite! Seed Fund Management via email or the Unite! Key Liaison officer of your university.
For more details, please contact Unite! Seed Fund Management via email or the Unite! Key Liaison officer of your university.
Required documents to apply :
Unite! Seed Fund Initiative
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, the alliance invites the Unite! community (Teaching staff, Teaching and learning units) to send proposals of collaborative projects for its third round of seed funding.The funding is open to all subjects and topics and aims to cater to in-person, hybrid, and purely digital formats.
Funding Line: Teaching and Learning
- Teachers (Professors, academic staff)
- Teaching & Learning units
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. A small budget should be planned in the expenses if you intend to use the Unite!'s Metacampus . For any questions, please contact the Metacampus support team metacampus@unite-university.eu.
In general, overhead costs cannot be included in the budget plan. In case this poses problems as to the internal regulations of your institution, please contact your Unite! Key Laison Officer (KLO) as well as the Unite! Seed Fund management at seedfund@unite-university.eu.
Funding Line: Teaching and Learning
- Staff cost for teaching or grants/stipends for students are not funded.
Funding Line: Teaching and Learning
- Applications must comprise of research/academic staff or teachers or teaching units from at least three Unite! member universities.
- Only a max. of 50% of the funding can be allocated to one partner in the project.
- For the establishment of new study programs: Distinction from existing study programs, presentation of the complementary added value as well as a declaration that sufficient personnel and material resources are available for the implementation and execution of the new study program.
Funding Line: Teaching and Learning
- Letter of support issued by the dean of studies of the participating departments of the universities.
- If you are affiliated with ULisboa, it is mandatory for you to contact your Key Liaison Officers (KLO) for guidance as to the letter of support.
Exchange modules can be existing courses that are offered at Unite! Universities where synergies in course content can be explored amongst departments/faculties of 3 or more Unite! partners and offered as ‘exchange’ for Unite! students in a collaborative format i.e.- In-person, hybrid or purely digital. The modules can be offered as block seminars ranging from 5 to 10 ECTS or more substantial semester- long courses spanning 10-30 ECTS. The modules must be recognised by the department/faculty of each participating university.
- In the days after your submission, you will receive an email from seedfund@unite-university.eu, confirming the receipt of your application.
- In case you do not receive this confirmation, please contact seedfund@unite-university.eu as well as your Key Liaison Officers (KLO) and ask for clarification.
- Please make sure to send us the application documents in the format provided on this website (PDF, xlsx). Other formats – as well as encryptions – may cause your email to be rejected by our email server.
More information
- For inquiries, interested candidates can email Konrad Löbcke or Dr. Anshika Suri at: seedfund@unite-university.eu .
- For Teaching and Learning proposals, please contact your university’s Key Liaison Officers (KLO) for application form guidance on how to clearly present your ideas and follow proper regulations.
- If you are affiliated with ULisboa, contacting your Key Liaison Officer is mandatory.
- Inquiries regarding PoliTO should be addressed to unite.pm@polito.it
- If you are affiliated with WUST, you must follow its internal rules on the preparation and implementation of projects.