Rethinking the “Dieta Meditteranea” in the Anthropocene – Hackathon

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Taking place on the 6th and 7th of December at the University of Naples, Federico II, in this two-day hackathon we invite you to co-create conceptual solutions for rethinking the Mediterranean food economy, departing from the concept of the Mediterranean diet.

Man-made climate change, species extinction and other environmental factors linked to the condition of the Anthropocene will radically alter the conditions for food production and consumption in the coming decades. Indeed, the effects of these developments are already visible as farmers all over the world are faced with rising insecurity and unpredictability that derive from new weather, temperature and humidity patterns. At the same time, the food economy is changing: there is a new inflow of highly skilled, university-educated neo-rurals who bring with them novel conceptions of entrepreneurship and management; digital technologies- from drones and precision agriculture, via blockchains, down to ‘simple’ e-commerce sites- empower food production and distribution in new ways; and there is a re-discovery of ‘traditional’ foods and production techniques along with a novel appreciation of forgotten tastes and aesthetics.

How to empower alternative forms of production and consumption that are both productive and resilient? How will the Mediterranean diet itself change (through, for example, the introduction of formerly ‘tropical’ produce, like mangoes and avocados, that now grow in Southern Italy)? How to guarantee worker rights and ensure proper remuneration in a rural economy marked by a powerful role of informal economic networks as well as persisting structural racism? Further information can be found here.

Registration process and requirements: Applicants must send a one-page CV to afi.soedarsono@societing by 30 November 2021. Participation in the Hackathon is free of charge.

Rethinking Dieta Meditteranea in the Anthropocene Hackathon

Co-Creation Training Workshop – VU Amsterdam

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The Co-creation Training Workshop which will be held on February 3rd to 5th, 2022 at the Athena Institute, Vrije University Amsterdam (VUA), the Netherlands, will provide a platform for Co-creation experts, practitioners, interested researchers and educators, Ph.D. students, and community partners to discuss and share knowledge and experiences on co-creation practices aimed towards connecting science and society. The main aims of the event are as follows:

  • Facilitate sharing of ideas and experiences on co-creation (best practices, pitfalls, innovations)
  • Connect co-creation experts, practitioners, students, and community partners from around the world
  • Build an engaged community of co-creation practitioners
  • Foster co-creation practices in research and education within and beyond the AURORA alliance

The full program can be found here.

 

Meet the Aurora Universities – Webinar Series

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We may not have had the opportunity to visit all ten of the other universities, nor indeed those countries, but in the five years since Aurora began, how well do we really know our Aurora partners?

We’re all research-intensive with an international outlook, collectively supporting our students to become global entrepreneurs. But could you list the home country of each partner? Its academic strengths? Its research collaborations?

The Borderless Learning: Recognition and Mobility Group (WP3.3.1) is hosting a week-long series of webinars from November 2nd to 5th, aiming to answer questions from the very basic level – why would a student choose to study there – from its campus and location, to its courses, to its inclusive community. Each Aurora university will take just 60 minutes, all following a similar structure and format, to showcase itself to other Aurora universities.

Whether you’re a student, an administrative adviser or coordinator of placements, or an academic looking to strengthen your European partnerships; tune in (or watch the recordings) to find out more. You could just turn out to be learning about your next destination.

Get To Know Your Aurora University Study Abroad Partner Destinations – A Webinar Series for students and staff

Are you on a study abroad pathway? Interested in studying a short course abroad? Keen to experience living and learning in another part of Europe? Or helping to advise those that are? Join as many of these eleven webinars as you like! All will be live streamed and recorded for follow-up access.

Click here for the full schedule!

 

University of Innsbruck – (Service) Design Thinking Course for educators

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This (Service) Design Thinking for educators course provides a way for educators to gain new perspectives on teaching, research, and problem-solving. It is a hands-on learning opportunity, not by talking about new teaching formats but by actually creating one.

During highly interactive sessions, you will work in teams and develop an exemplary course that intends to play with and maybe even breaks the traditional classroom boundaries.

To register within the University of Innsbruck, please use the VIS:online Tool of Universität Innsbruck and to register externally please send an email to personalentwicklung@uibk.ac.at.

Registration deadline is 15.11.2021.

The (Service) Design Thinking for educators

‘Transforming Higher Education through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and (Community) Service Learning.’ – First CDS Training Event

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On the 5th and 6th of October, the 1st Capacity Development Support (CDS) Training event organised by the South-West University ‘Neofit Rilski’, Bulgaria, in collaboration with the Aurora CDS Task Team at Palacky University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The two-day training event will take place in hybrid format.

The event is open to academic and non-academic staff of the Associate university partners and members of the broader CDS Network involved in teaching, students’ mobility, internationalization of study programmes and university social engagement.

In case of interest, please register to the event via this online form (https://forms.gle/XiFpf5znxKjHNEgv9). Registration is open until 1st of October.

More information, as well as the full program, can be found here.

 

CALL – Aurora Lecture Series ‘Environment and Care: Canadian Perspectives’

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Our Aurora partners at the Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Innsbruck, together with Universität Duisburg-Essen invite you to participate in an innovative transatlantic teaching project. 

The Aurora Lecture Series ‘Environment and Care: Canadian Perspectives’ is looking for a diverse range of lectures on the Canadian perspective on Environment and Care from various disciplines, combining the Aurora Pilot Domains of Culture: Diversity & Identity and Sustainability & Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.

If you are interested, send in your proposals for research-led teaching units (à 90 minutes) now!  including an abstract of 250 words at most which make reference to the following:

Please also indicate when (see “Sketch and rough time table” below) the contribution could be made.

The proposals should be forwarded to the Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Innsbruck (canada.centre@uibk.ac.at) by September 10, 2021.

 

The full pdf-version of the call can be found here.

 

Sketch and rough time table

Working title of the course

Environment and Care: Canadian Perspectives

Type of course unit

Optional (Interdisciplinary Competences)

Level of course

Bachelor (EQF 6)

Prerequisites (for students)

none

Referring Pilot Domain

Culture: Diversity & Identity

Sustainability & Climate Change

Referring SDG(s)

4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 16

Year of study

2021/2022

Semester of delivery

Summer Semester 2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated 

3 credits

Type of course

Lecture series (Ringvorlesung)

Course director

 

 

Other speakers/contributers 

Doris G. Eibl & Ursula Moser (University of Innsbruck)

Barbara Buchenau & Florian Freitag (University Duisburg-Essen)

tbc

Learning outcomes of the course:

Students can demonstrate a deeper insight into an environment and care sensitive understanding of Canada. They have become acquainted with exemplary research areas and are able to classify these in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals. Besides, this course aims at developing all forms of critical thinking, in particular with regard to the following competencies: System Thinking Competency, Anticipatory Competency, Collaboration Competency and Integrated Problem Solving Competency.

 

Course content:

The course, which is intended as an introduction to Canadian Studies, aims to present and discuss a number of recent developments in Canada through the lens of Environment and Care, which we see as key concepts for a future-oriented and sustainable understanding of different facets of the country. While the term “environment” refers not only to air, water, and land in or on which people or animals and plants exist, but also to circumstances, objects or conditions by which people or animals and plants are surrounded, the term “care” implies “everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining way.” (Tronto/Fisher 1990, 40)

Along the focal points

·         Histories and Politics

·         Indigenous Contexts

·         Intersectional Issues

·         Literatures and Media

·         Mountain and Glacier Studies

·         Multiculturalism and Federalism

·         Urban Visions and Realities

 

Mode of delivery

Online

Suitability for short term mobility

no (lecture series)

Planned topics

The course is planned as a lecture series from week 17 to 25 (an overview concerning the academic calendars can be found under Question 17 in the FAQ of Aurora Office Innsbruck):

Assessment

 

Knowledge query based on questions concerning the single sessions

Passed (>60%) / failed (tbd)

Language of instruction

English

Registration procedure for non institutional Aurora-students and

See landing page Aurora Innsbruck

number of places available

No limitation

Criteria for the allocation of places (e.g. “first come first served”)

Not applicable
(no limitation of participants)

Recognition

Students are asked to clarify the creditability of this course for their studies before registering! At Universität Innsbruck, the course is to be offered as a curricular course within the framework of Interdisciplinary Competences (elective module).

CALL – Martí i Franquès programme Doctoral Contracts at the University of Rovira i Virgili

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On the 1st of July, our partners at at the Univerity of Rovira i Virgili (URV), opened the call for applications for each one of the three editions of their Martí i Franquès programme: standard, with 28 contracts; COFUND, with 20, and Banco Santander, with 13. The deadline for applications is 6 September 2021.

The Martí i Franquès is a programme of URV grants that aims to increase the University’s human resources in the field of research. At the same time, it reinforces doctoral programmes, doctoral theses and the training of doctoral students on research and innovation projects. This Thursday is the first day for applications for 61 contracts of three different editions; the standard (28), COFUND (20) and Banco Santander (13). The successful applicants will be employed for up to three years. The call provides contracts in all fields of research at the URV. Applications can be made online until 6 September 2021.

Standard edition

Candidates for the standard edition can opt for a 1-year contract, extendable to 3 years, for doing a doctoral thesis as a member of a research group on one of the doctoral programmes taught at the University. The successful candidates are obliged to submit a doctoral thesis at the University but they will also be given the opportunity to do some teaching. Likewise, they will be able to take part in training programmes for specific purposes and general competencies, and they will have access to high-quality research infrastructure in a highly international environment. One of the 28 contracts on offer has been funded by the Fundació I2Cat (Internet and Digital Innovation in Catalonia). The successful candidates will be able to start work at the University as from December 2021.

Banco Santander edition

For the first time on the Martí i Franquès programme, this call for applications has a new type of edition thanks to the renewal of the collaboration agreement between the URV and the Banco Santander. This agreement has an effect on a variety of areas and can be divided into three main parts: education, employability and entrepreneurship. Education is a strategic aim and the 13 predoctoral contracts in this area have funding of €880,000. Thanks to the sensitivity and the commitment of this financial institution to the recruitment of talent and training, the funding of the Martí i Franquès programme has increased significantly.

COFUND edition

The Martí i Franquès COFUND project is co-financed by the European Union as part of the COFUND Doctoral Programme of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) in Horizon 2020. The 20 contracts that were still pending, one of which is reserved for a disabled person, are now being announced. The aim is to attract highly talented research staff from all over the world and give them the chance to have a research career at the URV. The contracts that will be signed by the successful candidates, aligned with the MSCA contract standards, substantially improve the contract conditions in terms of salaries and the availability of funds for research expenses. Among other eligibility criteria, the candidates cannot have resided for more than 12 months in the previous 3 years in Spain. That is to say, the aim is to locate international students with a master’s degree or equivalent or Spanish researchers who have been away and wish to return. A committee made up of URV staff and external evaluators will assess the candidates’ training, research results, professional experience, motivation and references.

The Tarragona Provincial Council (Diputació de Tarragona) supports the activity of the URV, including the Martí i Franquès Programme.

For further information: https://www.urv.cat/en/research/support/programmes/marti-franques/

 

Excellent Science in Horizon Europe – The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

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The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), part of Horizon Europe, and the European Union’s flagship funding programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training of researchers, organizes many different actions and funding opportunities. Our Aurora partners at the University of Duisburg-Essen offer an information event and in which you will receive hands-on advice on how to write a successful MSCA fellowship application.

What to expect:

Monday: 12.07.21, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
• Presentation of facilities and services at the UDE, which are helpful during the application process but also after a successful project application (Science Support Centre, Graduate Centre Plus, International Office).

Tuesday: 13.07.21, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
• Information on the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships by a speaker of the EU Cooperation Office of the German Science Organisations (KoWi)

Thursday: 15.07.21, 10:00 – 12:00 (limited number of participants!)
• Field report of a successful applicant and exercises for successful proposal writing by a speaker of KoWi
In order to enable an individual and most fitting consultation, the exercises on Proposal Writing on 15.07.21 are only available to a limited number of participants. Early feedback on your participation is therefore recommended. The other parts of the event are open to all interested parties.

 

Please register via the following link:
https://eveeno.com/2021_ude_msca_postdoctoral-fellowships 

Click here for the full programme (pdf).

Co-Creation Courses

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Aurora and its universities offer a variety of different co-creation courses, open to students from all Aurora Partners. Consider enrolling, for example in the “Tools for Enterpreneurship” course at the University of Rovira i Virgilli, a course on International Service Learning at VU Amsterdam, or Project management in Social Work Practice at Palacky University Olomouc.

At the moment, a total of nine courses are available. For a full overview of the courses, the terms and the registration deadlines please take a look at this table.