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EUniWell’s Seed Funding Call (SFC) is a fund to connect researchers, educators, staff, and students within the Alliance to work on interesting and European-wide projects. Lina Lindell is coordinator of one of the winning projects from the second round of SFCs.

Within the EU State of the Union talks on May 6th 2021, Vice-Rector Giorgia Giovannetti from EUniWell partner University of Florence had a conversation with José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, about inequality in the pandemic which hits Africa much harder than Europe…

A team of scientists including experts from the University of Birmingham calculates the possible reduction of emission by restoring all global agricultural peatlands. This can be done by raising the water level in the fields according to a current study.

Are you interested in well-being entrepreneurship development in tourism or how artificial intelligence can help reach the Sustainable Development Goals? If this is the case, make sure to register for the summer course @Unifi from June 28th till July 1st 2021.

Transatlantic tandem talk on 4 May at 18:00 CEST (5 pm GMT / 12 pm EST). Global food systems are under pressure on a scale previously unencountered. A crisis is looming, fueled by population growth, climate change, water scarcity, energy supply and now the pandemic. The world must feed an estimated…

The discussion will highlight aspects about the current status of Digital Education and about the main challenges for future teaching in a continuously digitized society. In a Fireside Chat on Thursday, 29 April, 18:00-19:00 CEST (5:00-6:00 pm GMT) which is live-streamed on YouTube Professor Busse…

The main ambition of the agreement is to produce healthy and active Leideners and a smoke-free generation. The agreement was signed by over 40 partners on April 19th.

Semmelweis University is proud to be part of EUniWell, a European University Alliance that aims to strengthen cross-institution strategic partnership so that the international competitiveness of European higher education is much enhanced.

The French diabetology network CORONADO (CORONAvirus SARS-Cov2 & Diabetes Outcomes) has just published new results in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, EASD) on the outcome of diabetic patients hospitalised for COVID-19 in spring 2020.

The Employee Counseling Service is available since December 2020 organized by the Semmelweis Health Development Center and the Institute of Behavioural Sciences. Its primary aim is to provide support for university employees in case of life management difficulties, as well as problems related to…

Armel Tripon, a successful and experienced French skipper, solicited the University of Nantes to help him prepare his first Vendée Globe: a solo, nonstop, and without assistance sailing race around the world in an 18 meters long IMOCA boat. The race, which lasts around 80 days, both begins and ends…

The research project, led by the Research Group of Experimental Neuroanatomy and Developmental Biology was realised in an international collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna and Karolinska Institute.

HR Excellence in Research shows the attractiveness of universities as academic employers for researchers from all over the world to further develop the European research area.

Facing increasing problems from emigration, Albania is trying to stop the depopulation of rural areas. As Italy is one of the main migration destinations for Albanians, Italy and Albania now work hand in hand in raising recognition and for value for Albanian cultural heritage.

During this conversation, tandem scholars Dr. Silke Hackenesch from the University of Cologne and Dr. Tiffany Florvil from the University of New Mexico will contextualize last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in Germany and the US, both of which were accelerated by technology and social media.

Emmanuelle Bousquet is beginning her second term as Vice-President for Culture at the University of Nantes.

The eHealth Institute of Linnaeus University together with Gunnar Cedersund are hosting a seminar on the concept of the digital twin and how one can look inside one’s body and create a digital image of oneself. The seminar is scheduled for February 25th (Thursday) from 2:30 pm till 4 pm (CET).

Intercomprehension enables anyone to understand all the languages within a common family, thereby promoting equal exchange, where no one is at a linguistic disadvantage

In cooperation with the ECB and the Scientific Technical Secretariat of the National Observatory for Rural Landscape the University of Florence has investigated the possible correlation of the spread of Covid-19 and level of socio-economic development in the area.

Thanks to a £40,000 grant of the Art Fund’s Respond & Reimagine scheme, the Barber Institute launches the innovative ‘Nurse in Residence’ scheme as part of its Barber Health project

This event is organised by the EUniWell Seed Funding Call 1 project group Enriched Reality for Education and Well-Being (EREdWeb)

The Erasmus+ App is a milestone in the development of the European Student Card. It will be launched in an online event on January 28th from 2pm – 3:30pm (CET).

Researchers from Birmingham, Florence and Leiden who were successful in the first seed funding call are launching an online meeting for collaborative research on Friday 29th January from 10:00-12:30 CET / 9:00-11:30 am GMT

A research group from Linnaues University led by Ian Nicholls and Per Nilsson is developing a more reliable and more detailed testing of the immune system.

Professor Michaela Mahlberg from the University of Birmingham will be joining Professor Beatrix Busse’s team at the University of Cologne as a visiting professor between January and August 2021 to accelerate research and education cooperation.

Don’t forget to save the 3rd and 4th November for the 6th annual Big Data conference, hosted by Linnaeus University, Sweden!

On 11th November 2020, the University of Cologne signed the cooperation agreement with the famous World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel. Announcing the signing on November 9th, the commemoration day of the Kristallnacht pogroms, comes along with the importance of this date for the history of…

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are now capable of collecting and analysing enormously large datasets in ways that are challenging fundamental values embraced within Europe and the United States.

The Global South Studies Center (GSSC) of the University of Cologne is doing a web-talk series about the future of mobility in a post-covid world. How does the Virus change our understanding of mobility, both physical and digital?

One of the main goals of EUniWell is to improve the well-being of students, staff and researchers within each university and the consortium. The University of Leiden gives a great example of how to use the placebo effect in well-being during their “Healthy University Week” from October 26th to 30th.

University of Birmingham experts in Computer Science and Medicine worked with the Institute for Global Innovation to create the database, which includes all disciplines of research, including health-related, socio-economic, behavioural, educational, cultural, science and technology.

The new, single-step PCR test developed by a Hungarian-owned molecular diagnostic company can detect SARS-CoV2 more simply and rapidly.

University of Cologne Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse emphasizes the responsibility of universities for sustainability

University of Birmingham researcher Prof. David Hannah conducted a study together with Irena Creed (University of Saskatchewan) and other scientists, emphasizing the effects of monoculture in forestation and agriculture on our water systems

Is there a problem if we are using digital devices, such as our smartphones, extensively?

We are happy to announce the International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR) taking place 17–18 September 2020 as an online conference at Linnaeus University

Biotech XENOTHERA, University Hospital of Nantes and the EUniWell partner Université de Nantes have signed a consortium agreement to support XAV-19, XENOTHERA’s anti-COVID-19 treatment, intended for patients at the beginning of hospitalization.

EUniWell, the European University for Well-Being, has been selected as one of 24 new European Universities under the second call of the European Universities programme!

EUniWell partner University of Florence has honoured the world famous pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim with an honorary degree in International Relations and European Studies.