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Darmstadt – Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da) as part of the European University of Technology (EUt+) and the European Space Agency ESA are intensifying their cooperation. Prof. Dr. Arnd Steinmetz, h_da President, and Dr. Rolf Densing, Director of Operations at ESA, today signed the corresponding agreement. The "Memorandum of Collaboration" defines the framework for joint lecture series or master theses, starting with main topics like artificial intelligence, cyber security and life cycle analysis.

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da) – German member of the European University of Technology (EUt+) –, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) and the FAIR accelerator centre have yesterday signed a contract aimed at deepening their cooperation. Over the longer term, the “GET_INvolved” Programme will offer students and researchers the possibility to complete internships and research visits at GSI/FAIR. It is open to all students and researchers – above all doctoral candidates – from EUt+ universities.The contract was signed at h_da by Professor Paolo Giubellino, Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Joerg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, and Professor Arnd Steinmetz, President of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Higher education today is going through a period of transformative change. To explore the challenges of our times, EUt+ partner, Technical University of Sofia, is hosting Re-Imagining Higher Education through Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability from 1-3 Sep 2022.

A hundred representatives from the 8 partners of EUt+ were join and met in the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, from the 21st of March to the 25th of March.

A transversal workshop is being held at UTT from March 1st to March 3rd, 2022. The main purpose is to define all the actions to be implemented to accompany the experience of the first pioneer students enrolled in September in the EUt+ curricula, prefiguration of the European EUt+ programs.

The European University of Technology (EUt+) promotes empowerment of society and citizens. Thanks to this new Erasmus+ project, rural women in the new post-COVID scenario. Researchers from Cyprus, Spain, Ireland and Lithuania will train adult women in the field of green entrepreneurship. They will promote entrepreneurial and innovative activities that are beneficial to the environment and financially profitable. The project, led by the UPCT (Polytechnic University of Cartagena), within EUt+, starts this month and ends in September 2024.

The first workshop of the EUt+ European Telecommunications and Networks Institute will take place between March, 14th and March, 15th 2022. It will be available both online and onsite in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

A new educator handbook on inclusive entrepreneurship has been developed to support better access and participation in entrepreneurship courses across EUt+ partners. The handbook was presented at the TU Dublin EDI Research Practice showcase on Friday 25th January 2022. It forms part of a suite of tools and training that will support entrepreneurship educators in higher education institutions develop more inclusive courses and will be published as an open source document.

Students from Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca (UTCN) and Riga Technical University (RTU) joined an interactive classroom discussion today with students of the Creative Digital Media course in TU Dublin. The students talked about their shared European identity and their hopes for connecting with their student colleagues in EUt+ partners across Europe.

Prof. Dr. Arnd Steinmetz (55) is the new president of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da). On the 8th of ferbruary, election meeting of the h_da Senate, 18 of 34 eligible voters voted for the current Vice President for Digitization and Internationalization in the first ballot. He prevailed against the external candidate. The term of office of Prof. Dr. Arnd Steinmetz begins on 01.04.2022 and is six years. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Ralph Stengler (65), who has led the university since 2010 and is retiring after twelve years in office.

EUt+ prepares three new common degrees in Architecture, Industrial Engineering and Food Science and Technology and creates research support offices.

Call for abstracts from 15th of November.The second EUt+ Workshop on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies will be held in a hybrid mode both at UPCT (Cartagena, Spain) and online on January 31st, February 1st and February 2nd 2022.

A hundred representatives from the 8 partners of EUt+ will join and meet in the Universidad Polytechnica of Cartagena from the 1st of February to the 4th of February.

Data Science is a fast-growing research field covers many scientific domains where data are at the core of developing cutting-edge technologies, at both pure academic and applicative industrial and societal levels. Exchanging complementary know-how in this domain between Eut+ research teams will certainly contribute to build an outstanding scientific ambitious project, in a competitive European landscape.

On November 22nd and 23rd, ELaRA (European Laboratory for Pedagogical Action-Research and Student-Centered Learning) held its first event : an Autumn Symposium on the theme « Post-Pandemic Pedagogies ». Due to the pandemic context, this event was held online and was followed by over a 100 participants throughout the consortium (teachers, researchers, students and academic staff).

On 9 and 10 December 2021, Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) will host the First Annual Conference of the European Culture and Technology Lab+ (ECT Lab+), bringing together some of the world’s leading technologists and philosophers. The conference will examine how to re-invent technology to meet the climate change challenges recently highlighted by COP26 and move beyond the current geological era, characterised by artificial environmental disasters.

The seminar series “Think Human First” is offered by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ECT Lab+), the European University of Technology (EUt+) and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. A first session will be held on November 26, 2021, 15:00 CET (16:00, Bucharest). The conference is open to all partners of Initiative EUt+.

The Learning Development Network of the Cyprus University of Technology and the European Laboratory For Pedagogical Action - Research And Student-Centred Learning (ELaRA) of EUT+, invite you to the seminar titled “Lessons learnt”, delivered by Andria Zafirakou, on November 26, 2021, 17:00 – 18:00 CET.

The European Laboratory For Pedagogical Action Research And Student-Centred Learning (ELaRA) presents an online event on November 22 and 23 dedicated to the new pedagogies after the pandemic. Lectures, round tables presentation and workshops involving all partners of the Alliance are going to take place.

The partners of the Initiave will conduct significantly more research with its partner universities in other European countries: On Saturday, November 6, the presidents of the "European University of Technology" initiative laid the foundation stone for this in Darmstadt. In a "Memorandum of Agreement", they decided to establish four joint research institutes and a graduate school. The new institutions will create synergies in research and expand scientific capabilities through the joint use of personnel, laboratories and infrastructure. The number of research institutes is to be expanded in the medium term.

The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca opened the registration period for the courses that will be taught during the "The Online International Winter School TUCN 2021"! The winter school will take place online, between December 6th-17th, 2021.

The initiative "European University of Technology", EUt+ for short, has taken further steps towards joint research and teaching. Around 80 representatives of the 8 participating universities met for this purpose on the campus of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da) from October 11-15. A delegation of EUt+ also met the Hessian Minister for Sciences and Arts Angela Dorn on Friday.

From October 11 to 15, 80 European partners involved in the research and in the academic work of the EUt+ project are meeting in Darmstadt, hosted by the German partner of the Alliance, hochschule Darmstadt (h_da). The main objectives of this meeting are to officially launch the SwafS project “Science With and For Society” (linked with the experimental EUt EXTRAS), and to deepen the first achievements in the academic and European research fields. The working groups involved in “information systems synergies” will also meet.

Hochschule Darmstadt will start a lectures cycle about “European Identities”. It is a course with contributions from numerous colleagues from the EUt+ partners. The course is open for all students and partners of the Alliance.

The OpenAIRE-Nexus consortium and the European University of Technology (EUt+), have announced a new cooperation agreement to improve the integration and discoverability of research results, to showcase the synergies and connections and aggregate the work from all partners across this pan-European network of Universities. All, using open science in the core.

During the EUt+ Limassol week, students’ representatives have decided to form a Student Board to operate together and structure their contribution to the initiative.According to the spirit and vision of EUt+, the Student Board will advocate for student interests and create an inclusive and diverse network where all students from all universities can feel welcome.

During the Limassol Week, the partners of the EUt+ Alliance have defined a trajectory of convergence towards common training programmes across Europe to build European degrees in engineering at Bachelor and Master levels. They are called EUt+ engineering programmes.

Two important agreements have been signed during the Limassol week concerning the acceleration of the mobility of students among the EUt+ European University of Technology.The first students experiencing the “intra-EUt+” mobilities will be fully involved into the process of building this new kind of university and be EUt+ pioneers.

4 signed agreements, more than 50 workshops, 2 public debates, a common intranet-like tool and the launch of the new website: the conference of the initiative, European University of Technology“ (EUt+) brought important milestones in the common vision of the eight institutions of higher education. More than 100 participants met in Limassol, Cyprus, hosted by EUt+ partner, Cyprus University of Technology. Among the speakers there were the Director–General of the European Commission for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture, Mrs Themis Christophidou and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Cyprus, Ms. Annita Dimitriou.

September 1st marks the official start of the project EUt+ EXTRAS.

We are happy to announce that the Inno-EUt+ project was selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. 

The First Annual Conference of the European Culture and Technology Lab+ will be held the 9th and 10th Dec 2021. Call for papers until the 20th Sept 2021.

Call for abstract open as of 17th May. The first Workshop of the EUt+ Sustainability Lab will be held online on 14. - 15. June 2021.

Abstracts may be submitted up until Friday 22nd January 2021. Each year the Polytechnic Summit assembles leaders, influencers and contributors who shape the future of polytechnic education. The Polytechnic Summit provides a forum to enable opportunities for collaboration and partnerships and for participants to focus on innovation in curriculum and pedagogy, to share best practices in active and applied learning, and discuss practice-based research to enhance student learning.

Call for abstract from 15th of March. The first EUt+ Workshop on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies will be held online on the 28th and 29th of April 2021.

Call for papers until June 30, 2021. The 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, will be held on October 28 - 30, 2021 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The 9th International Conference on Modern Power Systems will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the period 15th - 17th of June 2021.

During the Vox-Pop - Let's Talk Europe, Let's Talk EUt+ event held last December, the students of UTTroyes demonstrated their creativity in understanding the essence of the European University of Technology.

The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) organizes international conferences and free online workshops from 9 to 12 of november 2020.

The official starting date for the European University of Technology initiative, EUt+ is November 1st, 2020.Funded by the European Commission, the project will last 36 months and is destined to become permanent by creating strong links and positive synergies between the eight partners of the alliance.

International Cooperation and Foreign Students Department of Riga Technical University invites you to the International Education / European University Initiative Section of the 61st RTU International Scientific Conference taking place on 16th of October at 10:00 (Riga time), online platform ZOOM.

Towards a European University of Technology.The "European University of Technology - EUt+" Alliance is one of the 24 winners of the second call for proposals for pilot initiatives to create European Universities of the future. This successful bid will support the eight-member transnational alliance to establish a pioneering collaborative model that will revolutionise the quality and competitiveness of technologically-focused higher education in Europe. 

The eight partners of the European University of Technology, EUt+, have agreed on a common reverse side which will be visible on the European student cards of each campus. The implementation of this card will start at the beginning of the academic year in September 2020.

After some weeks of spreading, politicians and specialists from medicine and especially virologists try to decelerate  the epidemic disease Covid-19 by shut downs. While the various measures succeed in flattening the curves showing the numbers of new infections, the discussion about the social effects of these measures starts to gain momentum. Unemployment, recession, overload of the health system, social isolation, domestic violence, are some of the topics in the general discussion in the media.

FILE DEPOSIT : On 26 February, for the second consecutive year, the eight European partners at the initiative of the European University of Technology, EUt+, submitted their project following the call launched by the European Commission.

PEDAGOGY: On their own initiative, a delegation of students submit a report on their willingness to develop technology training and their vision of EUt+.PILOTING : Students launch a comparative study of student representation and their contribution to decisions within member institutions.

RESEARCH: A Memorandum of Understanding on the creation and development of a laboratory on "European Culture and Technology" 'ECT Lab+' is signed.

STRATEGY: The eight Rectors and Presidents sign the General Memorandum of Understanding formally launching the "European University of Technology" initiative.

STRATEGY: The timetable for the general convergence of the eight establishments is drawn up.

PEDAGOGY: The general competences of an EUt+ master-engineer graduate student are finalised.

SUPPORT: The French government through the SGPI (Secrétariat Général pour l'Investissement) has decided to financially support the EUt+ initiative.

STRATEGY: The main lines of construction of the European University of Technology Alliance and the general balance are set.

STRATEGY: The general lines of the consortium and the concept of the European University of Technology initiative are launched

RESEARCH: Academics from UTTroyes and TUDublin agree on the principle of a pan-European laboratory about humanities and technology.

SUPPORT: Thierry Breton and Michel Barnier support EUt+.

INFRASTRUCTURE: ATOS agrees in principle to study the interoperability of university information systems and the exchange of academic data on this scale.