UPT’s vision for digital transformation in education, research, and stakeholder engagement
Established in 1920, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara (UPT) has over a century of tradition in Romanian engineering education and research and is one of the major technical universities in Romania. It provides Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD study programmes in a large variety of engineering fields (counting 10 faculties and 28 research centres). UPT’s mission is to […]
Reconfiguring Higher Education: The Transformative Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Universities
By Dr Eduardo Leite, Vice President, Higher School of Technology and Management, University of Madeira. The contemporary educational and economic landscape is undergoing a profound metamorphosis in the role of universities, moving towards a more holistic and integrative perspective, where innovation and entrepreneurship emerge as fundamental pillars in preparing students for an uncertain and constantly […]
Catalyse your Sustainability Transformation
Sustainability has become indispensable in universities, particularly in teaching, research, entrepreneurship, and overall administration. A new sustainability-focused professional development training course has been developed by Accelerate Future HEI partners UIIN with expert input from the Sustainability Office of TUM International Gmbh and UNESCO. It will enable you to systematically advance sustainability transformation at your university. The […]
Munich Meet Up
By Samantha Carty, Momentum The 3rd Transnational Project Meeting for Accelerate Future HEI held in Spring 2024 was a sharing of ideas, workshops for innovation, and the next step towards redefining higher education. The two-day meeting brought together the nine testing partners and three acceleration partners to reflect on their first year of collaboration and […]
Happy Birthday MATE!
As a successor of the former Szent István University, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) was founded on the 1st of February 2021 with the integration of Szent István University (Gödöllő), Kaposvár University, Georgikon Campus (Keszthely), Károly Róbert Campus (Gyöngyös), eleven research institutes and several business organisations. Subsequently it has become one […]
Empowering Entrepreneurial Higher Education: TUM International GmbH’s Impact in the Accelerate Future HEI Project
In the dynamic landscape of higher education, collaboration and innovation are essential for progress. TUM International GmbH (TUMint) is proud to be one of the three acceleration partners in the Accelerate Future HEI project, a groundbreaking initiative funded by the European Union and spearheaded by the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN). As we reflect on […]
Accelerate Future HEI hosts a policy recommendations workshop
Accelerate Future HEI hosted an online policy recommendations workshop on December 1st 2023. Attendees included representatives of the partners participating in this Horizon Europe project and representatives from sister Horizon projects, Catalisi and aUPaEU as well as other stakeholders. The purpose of the workshop was to reflect on the first year of the project’s activities, […]
An Entrepreneurial and Innovative Approach
By Cristiana Oliveira, Rector, Universidad Europea de Canarias On the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary archipelago and largest of Macaronesia, the campuses of the European University of the Canary Islands are located in the historic centres of Villa de La Orotava and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, capital of the island and the […]
Introducing our sister project – aUPaEU
Accelerate Future HEI is a Horizon Europe project funded under the HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01-51 call. This call funds the development of Acceleration Services in support of the institutional transformation of Higher Education Institutions. Throughout the project, we will be collaborating with sister projects, which are funded under the same call, working towards shared objectives. The aUPaEU( A […]
Introducing our Sister Project CATALISI
Accelerate Future HEI is a Horizon Europe project funded under the HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01-51 call. This call funds the development of Acceleration Services in support of the institutional transformation of Higher Education Institutions. Throughout the project, we will be collaborating with sister projects, which are funded under the same call, working towards shared objectives. CATALISI is one […]
