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Exploring Sustainable Futures in Kalmar: Students Reflect on EUniWell Summer School 2025
Two students from Germany and France share their experiences from the EUniWell Summer School in Kalmar, Sweden — a week filled with academic insights, intercultural exchange, and cinnamon buns.

Launch of the Lesser-Used Languages Classroom (LULaC) Project
Four EUniWell member universities received an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership grant to implement a project on the digital teaching and learning of lesser-used languages.

Hybrid press conference marks official launch of “DigiUni” project
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) takes the helm as project lead for the groundbreaking Erasmus+ project “DigiUni”. The initiative, in collaboration with the University of Cologne as the German project partner and coordinator of the European University Alliance EUniWell, aims to…

Apply now for the EUniWell BIP on “Discussing History Education through Heritage”!
In this Blended Intensive Programme EUniWell brings together history educators from different universities in Europe in one course on history education and European heritage. The focus lies on German, Swedish and Dutch history, but students from other EUniWell universities and countries are also…

University of Florence students visit Cologne for first pilot of EUniWell’s Teacher Education Arena
From 13-17 March, students from different EUniWell universities (Florence, Linnaeus, Cologne, Semmelweis, and Nantes), studying to become teachers and educators, joined the first training course proposed by the EUniWell Teacher Education Arena. The intensive training was titled “International &…

Official start of the EUniWell Online Course “Decentering Epistemologies for Global Well-Being”
The new EUniWell Virtual Online International Collaborative Exchange (VOICE) course officially started on 6 February 2023.

EUniWell launches courses for future teachers
The EUniWell Teacher Education Arena is offering three distinct pilot courses at three different EUniWell universities. Apply now!

EUniWell launches a new Small Private Online Course (SPOC)
Three EUniWell universities, in collaboration with three African partner universities, are developing a new Small Private Online Course (SPOC) on Decentering Epistemologies for Global Well-Being.

Differences that make a difference: EUniWell students are invited to participate in online lecture on practical philosophy at the University of Cologne
The Virtual Mobility Offer of the University of Cologne (UoC) makes it possible: Students of EUniWell partner universities can apply to take part in online lectures or seminars of the UoC for the upcoming summer semester.

Workshop Review: "EUniWhat - What is EUniWell?"
On 29 September, the kick-off workshop "EUniWhat - What is EUniWell?" for students took place on the campus of the University of Cologne. Take a look back with student board member Linda Schlachter, who took part in the event.

Paving the way forward: 35 German universities’ joint statement on the “Full Roll-out of European Universities”
The 35 German universities and higher education institutions who are members of the 41 European Universities funded by ERASMUS+ have issued a joint statement on the “Full Roll-out of European Universities”.

Cologne-based research collaboration develops model to predict the effect of antibody treatment in HIV infection
The dosage of broadly neutralising antibodies determines the ability for virus replication / findings can contribute to design HIV therapy that can durably suppress the virus

Listen up! EUniWell on the DAAD's “Campus Europa” podcast
“Campus Europa” is the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) interview podcast on topics related to the European University Alliances. In the opening episode of the second season, launching on 28 June 2021, EUniWell Chief Development Officer, Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse, and student representatives…

Transatlantic Tandem Talk on “Society in Transition: A Transatlantic Conversation on Black Lives Matter” on February 25 at 18 pm CET / 5 pm GMT (online) hosted by University of Cologne
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.

Research Visit by Professor Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham) at the University of Cologne
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.

University of Cologne and Yad Vashem signed cooperation agreement on teacher education
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…

Exploring the future of mobility in a post-covid world
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?

The University of Cologne has been awarded the German Paper Atlas Award as rookie of the year 2019
University of Cologne Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse emphasizes the responsibility of universities for sustainability
