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UNITA intends to enhance excel­lence and inno­va­tion in teach­ing and learn­ing through a stu­dent-cen­tred and research-dri­ven approach, start­ing in the three focus areas of renew­able ener­gies, cir­cu­lar econ­o­my, cul­tur­al heritage.

This approach will make the Uni­ver­si­ties of the Alliance vibrant learn­ing envi­ron­ments and boost their attrac­tive­ness in a glob­al per­spec­tive. More­over, the attrac­tive­ness of the UNITA high­er edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions aims at a spillover effect on the rur­al and moun­tain ter­ri­to­ries of the Alliance through the pos­i­tive effects of both mobil­i­ty of stu­dents and staff and through intern­ships on the territory.

Reaching Mobility4All

While it is no longer nec­es­sary to demon­strate the ben­e­fits of mobil­i­ty for stu­dents and staff, it should be stressed that mobil­i­ty is also seen as an excel­lent way to strength­en the links between institutions.

The con­struc­tion of UNITA and its sus­tain­abil­i­ty rests in part on the capac­i­ty of part­ners to sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase mobil­i­ty among them, tak­ing into account that each con­text is real­ly par­tic­u­lar. For instance, the cur­rent per­cent­ages of long-term stu­dent mobil­i­ty are very dif­fer­ent from one insti­tu­tion to anoth­er (from 10 % to 33%).

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Thus, this work pack­age aims to devel­op facil­i­ties and “tools” to encour­age and sup­port stu­dent and staff mobil­i­ty, in par­tic­u­lar from one UNITA insti­tu­tions to another.

Based on prepara­to­ry meet­ings between admin­is­tra­tive staffs for all part­ners insti­tu­tions, long-term phys­i­cal mobil­i­ties seem to have reached a kind of thresh­old in each UNITA insti­tu­tions. In order to reach its long-term objec­tives of 50% of mobil­i­ty between them, the part­ners imple­ment sev­er­al strategies.

This three-year project gives the oppor­tu­ni­ty to col­lec­tive­ly iden­ti­fy and find answers to bar­ri­ers to long-term phys­i­cal mobil­i­ty, to exper­i­ment new forms of mobil­i­ty, includ­ing vir­tu­al mobil­i­ty, and to devel­op spe­cif­ic intern­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties, called “Rur­al Eras­mus” intern­ships, to con­tribute to both objec­tives of devel­op­ing rur­al ter­ri­to­ries, and in par­tic­u­lar cross-bor­der moun­tains ter­ri­to­ries, and to increase the num­ber of mobil­i­ty opportunities.

Final­ly, UNITA leads to the cre­ation of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties of prac­tices that also induce mobil­i­ties through the organ­i­sa­tion of staff weeks, work­shops and summer-schools.

Courses

While it is no longer nec­es­sary to demon­strate the ben­e­fits of mobil­i­ty for stu­dents and staff, it should be stressed that mobil­i­ty is also seen as an excel­lent way to strength­en the links between institutions.

Internships

UNITA con­nects uni­ver­si­ties, stu­dents, ter­ri­to­ries, and local stake­hold­ers to gen­er­ate par­tic­i­pa­tive frame­works for inno­va­tion and applied research and devel­op rur­al and moun­tain regions.


For stu­dents, UNITA offers inno­va­tion and research intern­ships in com­pa­nies, research cen­tres, or insti­tu­tions main­ly focused on the three areas of renew­able ener­gy, cir­cu­lar econ­o­my, and cul­tur­al heritage.


The intern­ships will allow stu­dents to par­tic­i­pate and expe­ri­ence knowl­edge trans­fer process­es and rur­al devel­op­ment dynam­ics up close.

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Mobil­i­ty

As part of its mis­sion and scope, UNITA pro­motes new forms of stu­dent mobil­i­ty, includ­ing Vir­tu­al and Rur­al Mobility.

Virtual Mobility

The Vir­tu­al Mobil­i­ty will allow stu­dents to par­tic­i­pate in cours­es and lessons in vir­tu­al class­rooms at a dif­fer­ent part­ner uni­ver­si­ty while stay­ing in their home institution.

By default, all cours­es in the cat­a­logue are in syn­chro­nous mode, in par­tic­u­lar for the cours­es for which no indi­ca­tion has been men­tioned. How­ev­er, for most of the cours­es, the syn­chro­nous / asyn­chro­nous mode is explic­it­ly stated.

Rural Mobility

After the suc­cess of the 2021 call, UNITA is ready to launch 2022 call to devel­op Stu­dent train­ing in rur­al regions around all the six UNITA Universities. 

This action goals are to rein­force com­pe­ten­cies and to improve the employ­a­bil­i­ty of UNITA stu­dents by con­nect­ing rur­al pub­lic and pri­vate orga­ni­za­tions with stu­dents eager to put in prac­tice their aca­d­e­m­ic knowl­edge. The pro­gram aims to cre­ate new syn­er­gies in edu­ca­tion, research and entre­pre­neur­ship and to pro­duce a net-pos­i­tive impact on rur­al and moun­tain­ous areas across Europe.

This year, each Uni­ver­si­ty pro­pose a spe­cif­ic call with train­ings of 3 weeks up to 2 months (in some cas­es even longer).

As part of its mis­sion and scope, UNITA pro­motes new forms of stu­dent mobil­i­ty, includ­ing Vir­tu­al and Rur­al Mobil­i­ty.

We share a firm will­ing­ness to coop­er­ate on the basis of mutu­al trust in a trans­for­ma­tion­al project aim­ing at estab­lish­ing a new mod­el of increas­ing­ly col­lab­o­ra­tive and inte­grat­ed teach­ing, research and inno­va­tion through enhanced mobil­i­ty and with strong links to our ecosystems.

As part of its mis­sion and scope, UNITA pro­motes new forms of stu­dent mobil­i­ty, includ­ing Vir­tu­al and Rur­al Mobil­i­ty.

We share a firm will­ing­ness to coop­er­ate on the basis of mutu­al trust in a trans­for­ma­tion­al project aim­ing at estab­lish­ing a new mod­el of increas­ing­ly col­lab­o­ra­tive and inte­grat­ed teach­ing, research and inno­va­tion through enhanced mobil­i­ty and with strong links to our ecosystems.

Calls

Each Uni­ver­si­ty opens a call for Incom­ing Stu­dents. The con­di­tions of each Uni­ver­si­ty may vary (e.g. each Uni­ver­si­ty might cov­er dif­fer­ent expens­es). If you want to take part to more than one call, please fill in an appli­ca­tion form for each of the des­ti­na­tions you would like to go.

  • Uni­ver­si­tatea de Vest din Timi?oara — 25 places (5 places per part­ner university)
  • Uni­ver­sité de Pau et des Pays de l’Addour (places to be determined)
  • Uni­ver­sité de Savoie Mont Blanc (places to be determined)
  • Uni­ver­si­dade de Beira Inte­ri­or  — 27 places (6 places for Uni­To and Unizar Stu­dents and 5 places to each oth­er part­ner university)
  • Uni­ver­si­dad de Zaragoza — 40 places (16 to Uni­To stu­dents – and to each 6 per part­ner uni­ver­si­ty) Res­o­lu­tion, selec­tion list, wait­ing list and accep­tance let­ter — infor­ma­tion avail­able here: UNITA Rur­al Mobil­i­ty 2022 (Incom­ing Stu­dents).
    New Call (Dead­line: 1 Sep­tem­ber 2022)
  • Uni­ver­sità di Tori­no — 20 places (4 places for Uni­To and Unizar Stu­dents and 3 places to each oth­er partner)

Infor­ma­tion Leaflet

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion: Pro­fes­sion­al Week — Dis­cov­er Rur­al Mobility

UNITO

UVT

UNIZAR

Student Assembly

After the suc­cess of the 2021 call, UNITA is ready to launch 2022 call to devel­op Stu­dent train­ing in rur­al regions around all the six UNITA Universities. 

This action goals are to rein­force com­pe­ten­cies and to improve the employ­a­bil­i­ty of UNITA stu­dents by con­nect­ing rur­al pub­lic and pri­vate orga­ni­za­tions with stu­dents eager to put in prac­tice their aca­d­e­m­ic knowl­edge. The pro­gram aims to cre­ate new syn­er­gies in edu­ca­tion, research and entre­pre­neur­ship and to pro­duce a net-pos­i­tive impact on rur­al and moun­tain­ous areas across Europe.

This year, each Uni­ver­si­ty pro­pose a spe­cif­ic call with train­ings of 3 weeks up to 2 months (in some cas­es even longer).

Blended Intensive Programmes

Blend­ed Inten­sive Pro­grammes (BIP) are short, inten­sive pro­grammes that use inno­v­a­tive ways of learn­ing and teach­ing, includ­ing the use of online coop­er­a­tion. The BIPs for stu­dents and staff com­prise a short-term phys­i­cal mobil­i­ty from 5 to 30 days abroad com­bined with a vir­tu­al com­po­nent facil­i­tat­ing a col­lab­o­ra­tive online learn­ing exchange and teamwork.

The pro­grammes may include chal­lenge based learn­ing where inter­na­tion­al and mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary teams work togeth­er to tack­le chal­lenges for exam­ple those linked to the sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals or oth­er soci­etal chal­lenges iden­ti­fied by regions, cities or companies.

By enabling new and more flex­i­ble mobil­i­ty for­mats that com­bine phys­i­cal mobil­i­ty with a vir­tu­al part, BIPs aim at reach­ing all types of stu­dents from all back­grounds, study fields and cycles.

«Uni­ver­sité d’été»

Val­oriz­zazione del­la macroarea alpina ita­lo-francese per un tur­is­mo sosteni­bile.
Rif­lessi cul­tur­ali, sociali ed economici.

The “Uni­ver­sité d’été” offers a one-week res­i­den­tial course in San­t’An­na di Valdieri (CN), from Mon­day, Aug. 28 August to Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 2, 2023, and par­tic­i­pa­tion in two con­clud­ing online con­fer­ence-sem­i­nar initiatives.

(19 and 20/10/2023; 25/11/2023), after which a cer­tifi­cate of par­tic­i­pa­tion valid for the achieve­ment of 3 CFUs.

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