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What is Unite?
The UPC is one of the nine European universities that make up Unite! (University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering). This alliance of technological universities works with the support of the European Commission to promote the construction of the future European Education Area through funding for the Erasmus+ and H2020 programmes. Within Unite!, all the member universities are working on designing and consolidating a new European university model that offers education and research of excellence that focuses on today's main social and technological challenges. The communities of the nine universities develop and participate in projects and activities for implementing future European bachelor's degrees and setting up a European Doctoral School that will focus on strategic areas for the alliance and for Europe, such as sustainable energy, artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0 and entrepreneurship. Unite! connects different European regions from an academic and research perspective that favours strengthening innovation and knowledge transfer in a multicultural, multilingual, digital and green framework.The alliance works collaboratively through work groups made up of people from all the member universities.
"Within the Unite! alliance, the UPC actively contributes to designing and implementing new challenge-based learning models and developing digital, hybrid and face-to-face environments. These new environments make it easier for students, academics and researchers to access international teaching and research programmes.
To give shape to the Unite! alliance so that it fits the values and identity of the UPC is, without a doubt, one of the new and stimulating challenges the institution faces in the next five years".
Daniel Crespo, rector of the UPC
At the UPC, about 50 members make up the team of administrative staff, academic staff, researchers and students who are part of the community working on the alliance's projects in coordination with members of their partner universities.
| Name | Rol in Unite! | |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Crespo, Rector de la UPC | Vicepresident of Unite! | |
| Lourdes Reig, Vice-rector for International Policy | Key Liaison Officer (KLO) | |
| Helena Martínez, Head of the UPC's International Relations Service | Deputy KLO | |
| Josep Bordonau, researcher and professor | Coordinator WP4- Reinforcing academia-business cooperation | |
| Elisabet Arnó, Assistant director EPSEVG | Coordinator Cm9- Strategic Outreach, Impact, and Dissemination y WP9- Disseminating and communicating Unite! | |
| Maria Carol, PAS | Student Liaison Officer (SLO) | |
| Xavier Molins, PAS | Project manager | |
| Encar Mulero, PAS | Unite! Communication Contact Person | |
| Jesus Alcober, researcher and professor | Metacampus responsible |
The alliance works collaboratively with people from the university communities who want to join one of its projects. In their areas of expertise, the UPC's administrative staff, academic staff, researchers and students can join any of the work groups and thus become part of the Unite! development community.
If you are a member of the UPC's administrative, academic or research staff and wish to join the initiative, write to:
If you are a UPC student and wish to join the team of students involved in the alliance, write to:
The European Commission proposed the European Universities initiative in 2019 to promote the establishment of a European Education Area for 2025. European universities are transnational institutions of higher education across the EU that share a long-term strategy and promote European values and identity. The initiative is designed to substantially strengthen student and staff mobility, thus fostering the quality, inclusion and competitiveness of European higher education.
In response to a 2019 Erasmus+ call for applications, the first 17 associations were selected for a three-year pilot stage in which to build the foundations of future European universities. In the 2020 call, 24 more followed, as well as additional funding from the EU in the framework of the Horizon 2020 "Science with and for Society" call, to push the research and innovation dimension of European universities towards a European research area. In 2022, Unite! was again selected for the second call of the Erasmus + programme.
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