EUniWell Open Lecture Series
Bringing together expertise across disciplines and cultures, the EUniWell Open Lecture Series promotes knowledge-sharing and international cooperation while making pressing societal topics accessible to a wide audience.
It provides a platform for dialogue on key societal challenges and their impact on individual and collective well-being. Recognised scholars, researchers, and educators from across EUniWell universities share insights and analyses on topics linked to EUniWell’s areas of work. The lectures are organised in thematic series with different focus points.
All sessions take place online via Zoom and include opportunities for discussion. Participation is free and open to all – please see the programme for details and join directly via Zoom.
Upcoming lectures in the academic year 2025/2026
Citizen Science Talks
EUniWell is united by a shared commitment to civic engagement in research and education as a way to increase social and individual well-being. Civic engagement and co-creational approaches in research and education contribute to the promotion of democratic values and to an increased trust in the scientific knowledge as central to societal and environmental progress.
The Citizen Science Talks Lecture Series aims to encourage and showcase best-practice examples of civic engagement and co-creation in research and education in an accessible way, promoting interdisciplinary and participatory methods, both locally and across the EUniWell alliance. Lectures will focus on the impact of civic engagement on individual and societal well-being.
- 25 September 2025, 14:00-15:00 CET
“How to build an applied history for agro-ecological transition? Living Labs in Galicia”
Prof. Lourenzo Fernández Prieto & Prof. David Soto Fernandez - 28 October 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET
“Making impact with a bike”
Dr. Albert Kümmel-Schnur - 3 December 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET
“Earth Logic Design Agency – practical and paradigmatic ripples of citizen science”
Prof. Matilda Tham & Dr. Åsa Ståh
Well-Being, Health and Ageing
The Lecture Series on Well-Being, Health and Ageing is a initiative aimed at fostering dialogue around the themes of ageing, psychological and social health, and the promotion of active lifestyles across the lifespan. The series brings together scholars, students, professionals, and international experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities of ageing societies.
This series is particularly focused on the promotion of active ageing, a concept that goes beyond the biomedical to embrace social, cultural, and occupational dimensions of ageing. The lectures seek to highlight the complex interplay between health, identity, and social context throughout the life course.
- 14 October 2025, 09:15-10:45 CET
“Principles of Ageing Medicine for the rapidly changing society of the 21st century”
Prof. Maria Cristina Polidori
More open lectures will be published here regularly.
Past lectures in the series
Lectures in the academic year 2024/2025
Social Talks: Fighting discrimination in Europe - An introduction to the EU’s legal framework on discrimination
11 October 2024
Lecturer:
- Emilie Delcher
Associate Professor in EU law, Nantes Université
Organised and hosted by:
Social Talks: Diversity, inclusion and discrimination in the labour market
30 October 2024
Lecturer:
- Amanda Heath
Affiliated Researcher in psychology, Linnaeus University
Organised and hosted by:
Social Talks: Inclusion at work - How can organizations reduce discrimination at work and leverage the potential of diverse workforces
21 November 2024
Lecturer:
- Prof. Anne Burmeister
Professor and Chair of Organizational Behavior, University of Cologne
Organised and hosted by:
Social Talks: The dark side of German federalism - How regional immigration attitudes lead to administrative discrimination
28 January 2025
Lecturer:
- Prof. Gerald Schneider
Professor of International Politics, University of Konstanz
Organised and hosted by:
Social Talks: From categorisation to discrimination in European migration policies
7 March 2025
Lecturer:
- Carole Billet
Senior lecturer in public law, University of Nantes
Organised and hosted by:
Social Talks: How has Black Lives Matter affected racism in education: Social Justice, Inclusion and White Privilege
20 March 2025
Lecturer:
- Kalwant Bhopal
Professor of Education and social justice, University of Birmingham
Organised and hosted by: University of Birmingham and Linnaeus University
Social Talks: Fighting Discriminations in Sports: the legal framework
15 April 2025
Lecturer:
- Giulia Mannucci
Associate professor in law, University of Florence - Ippolito Piazza
Doctor in administrative law, University of Florence
Organised and hosted by: University of Florence and Linnaeus University
Social Talks: Fighting against discrimination in relation to gender issues
6 May 2025
Lecturer:
- Isabel Lirola Delgado
Professor in International law
Organised and hosted by:
University of Santiago de Compostela and Linnaeus University
Lectures in the academic year 2022/2023
Young People, Well-being, and the Covid-19 Pandemic - Learning for the Future from the EUniWell Policy Commission
17 October 2023
Lecturers:
- Prof. Robin Miller
Director of Global Engagement within the College of Social Sciences, UoB - Dr. Paul Vallance
EUniWell Research Fellow, UoB - Liam Walsh
EUniWell Chief Student, UoB
Organised and hosted by:
Urbicide, everyday life and post-war urban healing
15 June 2023
Lecturer:
Prof. Kostyantyn Mezentsev
Professor and Head of the Department of Economic and Social Geography, KNU
Organised and hosted by:
International law, equality and socioeconomic justice: a view from women’s and girls’ human rights
18 May 2023
Lecturer:
Prof. Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, UMU
Organised and hosted by:
Equality, responsibility and welfare
13 April 2023
Lecturer:
Prof. Paolo Brunori
Associate Professor of Public Economics, UniFi
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Organised and hosted by:
In what sense can citizenship education be global? A Durkheimian approach.
17 March 2023
Lecturers:
Dr. Sébastien Urbanski
Associate Professor of Education Sciences, NU
Dr. Lucy Bell
Scientific Coordinator of GlobalSense and post-doctoral researcher, NU
Organised and hosted by:
Is Equality Law Up to the Challenge?
8 February 2023
Lecturer:
Dr. Meghan Campbell
Reader in International Human Rights Law, UoB
Organised and hosted by:
Plant foods for health and resilience
12 December 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Cornelia Witthöft
Professor of Food Science with a focus on nutrition/food chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biomedicine, UMU
Organised and hosted by:
Inflammation - An old flame to understand chronic metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases
7 November 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Pablo Pelegrín
Researcher at the University of Murcia and the Biomedical Research Institute of Murcia
Organised and hosted by:
Principles of Ageing Medicine for the rapidly changing society of the 21st century
11 October 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Maria Cristina Polidori
Head of Ageing Clinical Research in the Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne
Organised and hosted by:
Growing new skills: the role of science communication in the medical field
2 September 2022
Lecturer:
Dr. Imre Varjú
Health Communications Specialist, Senior Lecturer, SE
Organised and hosted by:
Lectures in the academic year 2021/2022
European standards of Human Rights protection of displaced persons fleeing armed conflicts
2 June 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Alla Fedorova
Associate Professor International, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Organised and hosted by:
EUniWell
Novel approaches to delay ageing and age-related diseases
25 May 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. David Vilchez
Research Group Leader, CECAD Research Center and Principal Investigator, Faculty of Medicine, UoC
Organised and hosted by:
“Soli-Data-Rity” - The use of data for personalised medicine
12 May 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Pierre-Antoine Gourraud
University professor and hospital practitioner in cell biology, Nantes University Hospital
Organised and hosted by:
Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
28 April 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Professor for Cultural Anthropology, UoC
Organised and hosted by:
The use of metabolic trajectories to better describe the natural history of metabolic diseases
7 April 2022
Lecturer:
Dr. Ádám Tabák
Research professor of the Department of Internal Medicine and Oncology, SE
Organised and hosted by:
Cultural Heritage, Well-being and the Future
24 March 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Cornelius Holtorf
Professor of Archeology, Lnu
Organised and hosted by:
War, Peace and Overcoming Helplessness: The Role of Universities
10 March 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Koops
Chair of Security Studies and Scientific Director of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, LEI
Organised and hosted by:
Leiden University
COVID-19 as an engine of family reshuffling: Couples’ role-set and subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic
24 February 2022
Lecturer:
Prof. Daniele Vignoli
Professor of Demography, UNIFI
Organised and hosted by:
From knowledge transfer to personal development: The changing needs of Generation Z in higher education
10 February 2022
Lecturer:
Dr. György Purebl
Director of the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, SE
Organised and hosted by:
Well-being, Education and Young Refugees
27 January 2022
Lecturer:
Dr. Jennifer Allsopp
Birmingham Fellow, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, UoB
Organised and hosted by:
Restoring vision
20 October 2021
Lecturer:
Prof. Botond Roska
Director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel
Organised and hosted by:
