OPEN CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTION
FAIR Data Training
Innovative and tailor-made FAIR data training for RDM trainers to pass on skills within their institutions
This innovative and flexible online course is tailored for RDM (Research Data Management) trainers, PhDs, and researchers to build and pass on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data skills within their institutions. The training materials are designed to support both new and experienced trainers in creating or enhancing their RDM training offerings.
The FAIR Data Training materials are Open Educational Resources (OER) licensed under CC-BY, allowing for reuse, remixing, and updates. Designed with practicality in mind, they are available in open file formats to promote collaboration and scalability. Participants are encouraged to share feedback, discuss experiences, and collaborate to enhance RDM training.
Training contents:
- Audio-visual e-learning units on developing engaging teaching materials
- A comprehensive collection of didactic and methodological tools
- Beginner-friendly, resource-efficient materials designed for maximum adaptability and reusability across platforms
Format: Online, asynchronous
Availability: Always on
CLOSED CALLS
Soft Skills Training Course
This flexible, asynchronous online course is designed to equip MA students, PhDs, researchers, professors, and administrative staff with essential soft skills. The course consists of 8 modules, each divided into video lessons (15–20 minutes), self-learning activities (self-assessment questionnaires), and in-depth materials, allowing participants to learn at their own pace.
Through 8 modules, participant’s will develop crucial soft skills to navigate today’s dynamic work environments.
Training contents:
- Agile decision-making and problem-solving
- Effective communication and conflict resolution
- Teamwork, leadership, and motivational strategies
- Creative approaches to challenges
Format: Online, asynchronous (self-paced)
Platform: Google Classroom (Code: 2azjsgp)
Application deadline: September 2024
Research Data Management from Training to Practice
Are you a young researcher or staff member at an EUniWell member university interested in advancing your skills in Research Data Management (RDM) or building RDM teams at your institution? Join us for an international workshop in Murcia from 8-10 October 2024.
Explore the importance of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles as a cornerstone of open science. Learn how to manage research data effectively, promote transparency, and maximize the impact of your research. This workshop will cover essential strategies and tools, media-didactics, and hands-on collaboration on data management plans (DMPs).
Dates:
- Day 1: 8 October: Trainers to Trainees RDM
- Day 2: 9 October: Media-Didactics for Trainers and Researchers
- Day 3: 10 October: Collaborative Practice on DMPs and FAIR Data
Application deadline: 22 September 2024
Application link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ezSElOYZF0KPq5Hby_p6QZZ_DlvSM5OT1CTfg3hhglE/viewform?edit_requested=true
EUniWell Early Career Researchers’ Workshop and PhD Scientific Days Conference
Semmelweis University invites PhD students from EUniWell partner universities to participate in the EUniWell Early Career Researchers’ Talent Hub and the PhD Scientific Days Conference, taking place in Budapest from 8-10 July 2024. This event provides an excellent opportunity to network, share scientific knowledge, and collaborate on well-being themes.
Aims of the initiative :
- support the sharing of scientific knowledge and networking;
- encourage talented young researchers to share their scientific results in an international conference and collaborate on well-being themes;
- build a cohort of the EUniWell Early Career Researchers’ Talent Hub;
- facilitate international mobility between the EUniWell partner universities’ Graduate Schools and research group
Dates:
- Workshops 8 July: Explore sex and gender in medicine and biomedical research through engaging sessions led by expert trainers.
- Conference 9-10 July: Present your research via oral presentations or posters in a diverse, international forum.
Application deadline: 20 May 2024
EUniWell Science-to-Public Communication Workshop Series for Researchers and PhD Students
Participants can take part in introductory sessions to hands-on workshops on podcasting, video blogging, speech writing, and exploring the interactions between science and society.
Format: online workshops
Dates: 10 June, 11 June, 12 June, 13 June 2024
Application deadline: 2 June 2024
Tell Us About Your Research – Mastering Science Communication Training
This 3-day training is designed to equip PhD students from 2nd year with the essential skills for delivering powerful oral presentations. It covers a broad range of topics, from understanding your audience and crafting visual aids to managing anxiety and handling questions. Through practical exercises with video recordings, you’ll work on your ability to communicate your research clearly and effectively.
Dates:
- Group 1: 21 May 9:00-16:00 and 28 May 9:00-16:00 and 4 June 9:00-16:00
- Group 2: 22 May 9:00-16:00 and 29 May 9:00-16:00 and 5 June 9:00-16:00
Application deadline: 10 May 2024
Application link: https://questionnaires.univ-nantes.fr/index.php/226163?lang=en
EUniWell Seminar on Well-Being and Interdisciplinarity for a ‘tomorrowmind’
Target audience: young researchers (PhD students and Postdocs)
This Early Career Researcher Talent Hub, which will be organised in an arena format, will focus on the interplay between interdisciplinarity and well-being. Targeted at the next generation of scientists and any other EUniWell member interested, the arena will outline EUniWell’s approach to well-being and its interdisciplinary dimension.
Format: online seminar
Date: 16 May 2024
Application deadline: 9 May 2024
EUniWell Research Data Management training for Researchers and PhD Students
Join the EUniWell Research Data Management training and boost your Open Science skills. Enhance your understanding of research data, learn best practices, and craft effective Data Management Plans.
This online training will be offered in three different sessions structured in the same way and will provide the same content.
Free of charge for all PhD students and researchers regardless of their career level, including doctoral candidates and young researchers.
Dates:
- Session 1: 12 February 2024, 9:00-12:00 (closed)
- Session 2: 9 April 2024, 9:00-12:00
- Session 3: 13 May 2024, 9:00-12:00
Application deadlines: Session 2 – by 3 April 2024 // Session 3 – by 7 May 2024
Application link: https://questionnaires.univ-nantes.fr/index.php/546111?lang=en
Data Visualization and Visual Storytelling
This 2-day-long online training is free of charge for researchers from EUniWell member universities.
There is a story in your data! This training will give you the skills and clues how to tell it visually. Data visualisation skills greatly affect research quality and the publications that are vital to an academic career.
Training contents:
- Analysing the needs and interests of your audience
- Understanding strengths, weaknesses and biases of how the human brain perceives visual data
- Choosing the right chart for the data: plot types (pie and bar charts, box plots, temporal data, pathways, heat maps, untangling complex plots, maps …)
- Working on the design process, editorial thinking, composition, layout and storyboard
- Using colour (colour coding, avoiding colour, mapping data to colour, heat maps)
- Optimising elements of figures (axes, grids, ticks, labels, callouts, arrows …)
- Keep it truthful, make it functional, beautiful and insightful, and improve clarity!
Dates:
- Group 1: 17 April 9:00-16:00 and 24 April 9:00-16:00
- Group 2: 16 May 9:00-16:00 and 23 May 9:00-16:00
Application deadline: 8 April 2024
Stress Resilience as a Career Skill
This 1-day-long online workshop is free of charge for researchers from EUniWell member universities.
Join the EUniWell Research Training Academy on Stress-Resilience, to learn how to keep a healthier balance between academic responsibilities and your mental well-being. The full-day workshop takes place online, on 2 May 2024.
Seminar contents:
- Resilience as anti-stress competence
- Stressors in academia
- Mechanisms of stress emergence and consequences of stress
- 3 Pillars of stress-resilience
- Transfer: Personal opportunities for increasing resilience and preventing stress
EUNIWELL SEED FUNDING CALL
The EUniWell Seed Funding Programme offers a unique opportunities for researchers, educators, students, and staff within our network to realise collaborative projects that enhance well-being in academia and society.
Each project can receive a maximum grant of €25,000, which can be distributed among project partners.
Cooperation with at least four EUniWell partner universities is a basic requirement of the application. Detailed information on the application is available on the EUniWell website.
EUniWell Science-to-Public Communication Workshops for Researchers and PhD Students
EUniWell is pleased to offer Science-to-Public Communication Workshops on 30 January 2024.
Boost your science communication skills and join the interactive online sessions, encompassing two essential modules.
EUniWell BIP on ‘Green and Carbon Neutral Cities’
To deepen the European Union Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities (EU Cities Mission) the EUniWell Arena Environment, Urbanity and Well-being has designed a one-week intensive programme on “Green and Carbon Neutral cities”.
Well-Being Research Incubator, Third Call for Workshops
EUniWell promotes cooperation and collaboration between its member universities and a broad base of associate partner organisations from across Europe. Researchers from participating universities are invited to put forward proposals to run online collaborative workshops on topics relating to our four research arenas.
Health Inequalities in Europe Summer School at the University of Birmingham
This summer school, held at the University of Birmingham, 26-30 June 2023, will bring together students, early-career researchers, health and social care professionals, and policy makers from across our EUniWell universities.
Intercomprehension course at the University of Florence
The first EUniWell Blended Intensive Programme will include a one-week intensive Intercomprehension course in Florence in June, preceded by online lessons. The aim of the course is to quickly learn to understand 5 other languages of the same family.
FESTIWELL 2023
Students and staff members from EUniWell universities are invited to attend the event, which will take place in-person at Linnaeus University’s campus in Växjö, Sweden.
A limited number of travel and accommodation bursaries are available for students and staff who have been actively involved or are to be involved in EUniWell activities.
EUniWell Seed Funding Call 5
After four successful editions, EUniWell is about to launch a new call for its Seed Funding Programme, promoting collaborations aimed at fostering well-being, and bringing together students, researchers, teachers and administrators from our Alliance.
Well-Being Research Incubator, Second Call for Workshops
EUniWell promotes cooperation, collaboration and friendship between its member universities and a broad base of associate partner organisations from across Europe. So far, we’ve done this through a range of activities, from open lectures to a transnational festival of well-being.
Mini-workshop series on the Impact of AI on Healthcare and Education
These workshops aim to discuss the development and use of technology, particularly different forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and their potential impacts on university education, in healthcare and clinical practice.
The workshop is on the 30th of January and on the 21st of February 2023.
EUniWell Science-to-Public Communication Workshops
The aim of the EUniWell Science-to-Public Communication Workshops is to up-skill researchers in the popularisation of science. The workshops are open to PhD students and researchers from all EUniWell partner universities, regardless of their field of expertise.
The workshops last from 27 February to 2 March 2023.
EUniWell Research Communication Workshops for PhD candidates
The EUniWell Research Communications Programme is designed for PhD candidates who are interested in science communication.
This online programme focuses on practical, interactive sessions to get started in engaging different audiences with the PhD candidates’ scientific research.
The programme lasts from the 20th to the 27th of January 2023.
EUniWell Research Communications Programme for Doctoral Candidates
The EUniWell Research Communications Programme is designed for PhD candidates who are interested in science communication.
This online programme focuses on practical, interactive sessions to get started in engaging different audiences with the PhD candidates’ scientific research.
As EUniWell values interdisciplinarity and the learning that can come from mixing different interests, expertise and perspectives, this programme is open to PhD candidates from all Graduate Schools of the eight EUniWell partner universities (Birmingham, Cologne, Florence, Leiden, Linneaus, Murcia, Nantes and Semmelweis). The programme lasts from November 2022 to January 2023.
EUniWell and the Way Forward: A Student Workshop on Well-Being and Engagement
During this workshop, students from all EUniWell campuses will have the opportunity to share their views on well-being and will be supported by group coaches on how to design their well-being-focused projects with EUniWell in the next few years. Join the workshop and start to bring your ideas forward! The workshop takes place online on 9 December 2022 from 14:00-18:00 CET / 13:00-17:00 GMT.
The EUniWell Research Thesis Prizes
EUniWell seeks to support Ph.D. Students, invest in their training and spread new skills and competencies in the field of science communication and science transfer to society for Ph. Ds from EUniWell partner institutions all over Europe. Two Ph.D. students per EUniWell Partner university will be selected (16 winners in total).
Become a EUniWell School Ambassador!
EUniWell School Ambassadors will benefit from collaborating and building a network with other students from European partner universities, providing opportunities to gain international experience, as well as becoming role models for many children.
EUniWell Well-Being Research Incubator
EUniWell researchers: apply now to run collaborative workshops! We’ll hold online information and networking sessions on 6 and 27 October 2022.
Call for ideas “Imagine the future of Universities!”
How can we reduce the carbon footprint of universities? Help us find solutions for the future of universities! You, the students, are invited to propose ideas or projects that will contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of universities by filling in this form by 16 October 2022.
4th Seed Funding Call
After three successful editions, EUniWell is launching a new call for its Seed Funding Programme, promoting collaborations aimed at fostering well-being, and bringing together students, researchers, teachers and administrators from our eight universities, also including our new partner, the University of Murcia. The fourth Seed Funding Call is open until 31 May 2022.
EUniWell Summer School: COVID-19: Impact on European health & well-being
Learn more about the impact of the pandemic on population health, contribute to the debate about post-pandemic health and healthcare provision and get an interdisciplinary perspective on the pandemic and population health! The EUniWell Summer School at the Leiden University campus in The Hague will take place from 10-13 July 2022.
EUniWell Policy Commission: Young People and the COVID-19 Pandemic launches call for evidence
The EUniWell Policy Commission has launched a call for evidence to explore and understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on different groups of young people (15–24-year-olds). Bringing leading figures from the public, private and third sectors together with EUniWell academics, the Policy Commission will consider evidence from a broad range of sources and produce policy recommendations relating to young people and post COVID-19 recovery.
FestiWell ‘22 – “Towards global sustainable well-being” 2-13 May 2022
The European University for Well-Being will be hosting its 2nd annual FestiWell. The 9-day event will explore with students, researchers, academic and university staff from all EUniWell partner institutions one of the great challenges of the present: how to set the course for a sustainable future in which we can live together with well-being.
Intercomprehension course between Romance languages
After a successful first experience, the University of Florence is once again organising a course on “Intercomprehension between Romance languages”, a course aimed at understanding six languages from the same family (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish).
ESOF2022 in Leiden
From 13 to 16 July 2022, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will take place in Leiden. ESOF is the largest interdisciplinary scientific conference in Europe, founded by EuroScience. The deadline for the call for proposals for ESOF2022 has been extended: send in your proposal for a session or poster presentation until 30 November!
Forum for Global Challenges
In May 2022, the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Global Innovation will host the first conference of the Forum for Global Challenges. Taking place at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre, the conference will bring together academics, policy-makers, practitioners, business leaders and industry representatives to collaboratively develop solutions to global challenges faced by people and the planet. Informed by over a year of deliberation and consultation, the conference will be a unique opportunity to share experience and ideas.
3rd Seed Funding Call
After two successful previous editions, EUniWell has decided to launch a new call for its Seed Funding Programme to bring together students, researchers, teachers and administrators from our seven universities.