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.
Apply now to Unite! Seed Fund for Student Activities!
There will be one call annually for Unite! Seed Funds for funding measure in Teaching & Learning and Research & PhD. Unite! Seed fund will have bi-annual calls for funding measures on Student Activities.
The first cycle of Unite! Seed Fund was launched on the 15th of March 2023 and finished on 31st of May 2023. The second call for funding measures on Student Activities is open from the 15th of October until the 15 of December 2023.
Download here all the necessary documents to apply for funding measures on Student Activities:
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, 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.
- 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)
- Applicants need to ensure student status until the end of the project.
- 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). A small budget should be planned in the expenses if you intend to use Unite!'s Digital Campus. 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.
- Supporting documents by the dean of studies of the participating departments of the universities.
- Supporting documents by the student organisations, department/unit heads wherever deemed necessary.
More information
- For inquiries, interested candidates can email Konrad Löbcke or Dr. Anshika Suri at: seedfund@unite-university.eu .
- For Teaching and Learning & Research and PhD 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.
- For Student Activity proposals, please contact your university’s Unite! Student Liaison Officers (SLO) for application form guidance on how to clearly present your ideas and follow proper regulations.