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News || Workshop || Register Now!Workshop "Scripting Urban Resilience: Navigating Disaster & Sustainable Futures"

Join us at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities in Essen on October 15th (3 pm.–6 pm.) for the workshop "Scripting Urban Resilience: Navigating Disaster & Sustainable Futures", which brings together interdisciplinary and global perspectives on how cities are confronting disasters and planning for sustainable urban futures. This event is hosted by Barbara Buchenau, Florian Freitag & Zohra Hassan-Pieper. 

Focusing on the critical impact of disasters from climate-induced storms and wildfires to pandemics, police violence, or political propaganda, our speakers from Wilmington, the US, Naples, and the Czech Republic will offer interdisciplinary insights on how cities are overcoming challenges and striving toward ecological & social sustainability. This gathering is linked to our ongoing focus on urbanities in Aurora and our UDE seminars "Green Utopias" & "Sustainable Urbanities in North America & Europe", allowing students from all over Europe to participate, foster rich discussion, and develop new ideas. Engage in a conversation that is shaping the future of urban resilience & sustainability!

The workshop is aimed at students, researchers, administrative staff, and practitioners!

Register here!

News || CfP || Deadline: October 21, 2024Call for Papers: Aurora International Peace Conference

Aurora universities invite you to a 5-day international conference on "The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding," organised by Aurora Karazin University Peace Education Hub and hosted at the University of Innsbruck, from February 17–21, 2025. The conference aims to contribute to future research, theory, and practice on how higher education institutions can be drivers of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. The conference features a 3 full-day programme agenda preceded by a networking day and followed by a closing day with joint working opportunities.

Please submit your 500-word abstract to AURORA-Peace-Conference@uibk.ac.at by October 31st, 2024. 

You can find further infomation on the conference here!

Click here for the Call for Papers!

News || BIPs || Registration closes: September 15, 2024 URV BIP “Engaging your institution in Internationalisation at Home: examples and good practices”

The International Centre at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili is organising a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) titled "Engaging your institution in Internationalisation at Home: examples and good practices" is now open. This BIP will address several good practices and projects that the URV has implemented towards its Internationalisation at Home (IaH) strategy. It will also include contributions from the BIP participants in order to learn about their own institutions' experiences.

When: 9-13 December 2024.

Where: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona (Spain)

Application Deadline: 15 September 2024 (selection will be announced on 24 September).

Maximum number of participants: 25 people

Selection criteria: motivation; contribution to the topic of the training; max. 2 participants per institution.

During this BIP, the attendees (academic, technical and administrative staff) will undertake a short-term mobility to the URV (9-13 December), which will be combined with a virtual component (6 November 2024), facilitating collaborative online learning exchange and teamwork.

We look forward to welcoming participants from Aurora! For any questions or additional information, please feel free to contact the organizers at bip@urv.cat.

Register here!

News || BIPs || Registration closes: September 16th, 2024 URV BIP “Community Engagement in Public Health: Strategies and Interventions in Health Promotion”

The Faculty of Nursing at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili is organizing a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) titled "Community Engagement in Public Health: Strategies and Interventions in Health Promotion." The BIP explores health as influenced by biological, social, economic, and cultural factors, aligning with the SDGs. It emphasizes community engagement and participatory processes through a hybrid course of lectures, seminars, workshops, and discussions.

The BIP will be held in Tarragona from November 11th to 15th, 2024, with a brief online preparatory session on November 6th.

For more details and to register, please visit: BIP "Community Engagement in Public Health: Strategies and Interventions in Health Promotion"

Practical Information:

Registration Period: July 18th to September 16th
Admission: First-come, first-served basis
Capacity: Limited to 30 participants, with a maximum of three participants per university
Target Audience: Undergraduate and master's degree teachers in nursing

We look forward to welcoming participants from Aurora! For any questions or additional information, please feel free to contact the organizers at lina.casado@urv.cat.

Register here!
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News || BIPs || Deadline: September 20th, 2024 4th Seizmic Hackathon: Re-thinking Food Systems in the Anthropocene

The topic is "Re-thinking Food Systems in the Anthropocene" and it will take place in Naples and in a small rural village nearby called Pietraroja. Participants will be asked to rethink the food economy of Naples and its region, with the help of lectures, seminars, and workshops. Organised in groups according to criteria of interdisciplinarity, they will develop systemic project proposals capable of guaranteeing ecological resilience and social equity, but also economic and organisational feasibility. 

The workshop, already at its 4th edition, is one of the most consolidated training initiatives in the WP3 "Social Entrepreneurship" of the Aurora University Alliance. Under the Erasmus+ BIP program, the 4th Seizmic Hackathon has been organized by the University of Naples Federico II, in partnership with the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Iceland, the University Rovira i Virgili and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 

When?

October 7-8, 2024 (online)

October 21-25, 2024 (presential)

Application procedure: 

• fill out the form below!

• send expression of interest and CV to adamerik.arvidsson@unina.it and ernestoramon.rispoli@unina.it 

Deadline: Sept. 20, 2024 

 

Apply here!
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News || Webinar || September 3rd, 2024 Invitation to ICI Project Informative Webinar

We are pleased to invite you to an informative webinar as part of the Inclusive Comprehensive Internationalisation (ICI) project, a cooperation partnership co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, led by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

This webinar will provide an overview of the ICI project's vision and expected outcomes. It also aims to encourage Aurora members to actively participate in the Call for Papers for our Project Final Conference, which will be held in Tarragona on 11 and 12 December 2024.

Join us to co-create equal opportunities and enhance the international and intercultural competences of all students, regardless of their background, orientation, or capabilities. Your contributions are vital in fostering a peaceful and sustainable world!

 

When?
3rd September 2024, from 11:00 to 12:00 CET

Where?
Online, MS Teams

Meeting ID: 333 542 753 780

Password: b4w2b4

Speaker
Marina Vives Cabré, WP8 lead and ICI Project Coordinator