Author: Niels Hexspoor

The University of Naples Federico II organizes the group self-management training that aims to work on the transversal strategic skills: strategies for effective time management, strategies for motivation in one’s training and professional project; strategies for achieving goals; and strategies for problem-solving. The group of students will be in the space of mirroring and sharing each academic experience and a space to construct a learning by doing arena. 

To register, please send an e-mail with your name, surname, university to which you belong, course of study and nationality to: mapper.sinapsi@unina.it.

The Self Management Training is offered to all university students of any degree and year of course. The event will be entirely online via Microsoft Teams using a specific channel called “In Teams per il Successo Formativo”.

Participation is free and open to all students of the Aurora Universities, including Palacky University Olomouc.

Please visit the Sinapsi website at www.sinapsi.unina.it, keep up to date on Facebook and Instagram page of Sinapsi Centre, Federico II University Naples.

Please view the flyer below for more information.

Self management training

The Aurora Student Council is organizing the second round of its successful Auror Student Ambassor and Aurora Student Champion Scheme.

• Are you looking to develop your skills for the graduate job market?
• Have something to say about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
• Want to help your university internationalise?
• Ready to enhance your academic studies with some meaningful volunteering?
• You enjoy networking, discussion forums, independent research, writing, sharing experiences?
• Do have a few hours this year to do something worthwhile?

We have the project just for you!

Each Aurora university is looking to recruit a group of its students to help share the objectives of Aurora – will you be your university’s student voice?

The Aurora Student Schemes provide opportunities for students from Aurora Network and Alliance universities to engage in a voluntary position, getting involved directly in the work of Aurora and sharing the values of Aurora at their home university.

Find out more about the work of Aurora here.

Students are at the heart of everything we do, so it is important we have student representatives engaged in everything we do. You can be a key part of the work led by the Aurora Student Council and can choose how much you get involved in the Aurora project working groups, working on something that really interests you.

Become an Aurora Student Ambassador

If you have a few hours to spare this year, this is the scheme for you!

You will attend a training session to learn more about Aurora and representing the student body, and the types of activity you could choose to do… such as writing a blog, planning an Aurora event, creating resources and promoting Aurora activity on social media. This could just be a one-off activity or ad hoc hours during the year when it suits you. You will be guided by your university or Aurora Student Council representative, with the opportunity to meet other students on the Schemes during “drop-in” style sessions.

Become and Aurora Student Champion

You want to dedicate between 12-40 hours to developing your graduate skills, working in a professional network, adding evidence of work to your CV and gaining a certificate and reference.

You will attend a training session to learn more about Aurora and representing the student body, and the types of activity you can get involved in… you will be allocated to an Aurora project working group, invited to meet its members and learn about its work, contribute to discussions and help develop ideas and activity outputs. You will keep a log of the hours you work and gather evidence to show what you’ve achieved. You will be guided by your allocated working group, you will have opportunities to contribute to Aurora-wide events, you will be guided on how to evidence your work and will be paired with other Champions, so you can work together on projects. You will also have the opportunity to meet other students on the Schemes during “drop-in” style sessions.

Ready to learn more about how you can get involved?

Watch the Aurora Student Schemes Pre-Application Briefing

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! APPLY HERE

Don’t miss your chance to get involved. Tell your friends and classmates to ensure your university is well-represented within Aurora this year. 

Questions about getting involved in the schemes?

The 2021-2022 Schemes are administered by our partners at the University of East Anglia.

Email us at aurora.champions@uea.ac.uk

For the Winter Semester 2021/2022,  our partners at the Universität Innsbruck are offering two new courses to all Aurora students, including the students of Palacky University Olomouc. The two courses are Sustainability & Climate Change and Cultural Encounters and Conflicts: Doing Diversity in Higher Education in the Aurora European Universities Alliance (Aurora Brown Bag Lecture Series) More information on these two course can be found below. 

This is the last call, if you are interested in participation in one of these courses, register before the end of September, 2021 using the following link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/international/aurora/kursangebote/uibk/index.html.en

Sustainability & Climate Change

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• • • Be able to think critically about their own lives and situations with respect to climate change and sustainability
    • Improve their knowledge of sustainability and climate change with respect to other cultures and be able to enter into discussion on the topic with people of other cultures
    • Understand the background and structure of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
    • Improve their knowledge of sustainable earth systems, lifestyles and mobility with respect to SDGs and be able to reflect critically with respect to their own lifestyles
    • Be able to engage with a real business and undertake a sustainability assessment for a business
    • Understand communication strategies with respect to communicating research to the public and implementing policy changes

Structure of the course (limited number of participants!)

Interactive format

The course will comprise five key components.

1. 1. 1. Introduction
      2. Frontal lectures and small discussion groups on sustainability and climate change
      3. Workshop on undertaking a sustainability assessment for a business
      4. Seminars and discussions with external stakeholders on communication and policy implementation
      5. Synthesis and critical thinking of topics covered

Cultural Encounters and Conflicts: Doing Diversity in Higher Education in the Aurora European Universities Alliance (Aurora Brown Bag Lecture Series)

Learning Outcomes

• • • Students will learn about: diversity and its use as a societal resource, different approaches to diversity studies and their application in the context of higher education, current networking initiatives of the universities within the European Universities Alliance and much more.

Structure of the course (no limitation of participants!)

• • • Lecture series

For further information concerning the courses (incl. credits, dates, etc.) please click on the course title, it will lead you to the course description on the UIBK website. The english version is available by simply toggling the language at the top of the page. 

The main goal is to give to all Aurora students the opportunity for a meaningful international experience, besides the opportunity to participate in open Aurora courses .

All Aurora students can check the course catalog (Courses (uibk.ac.at)) of Universität Innsbruck and find out which courses are available to students from Aurora Universities. 

Course Flyer