Unite! Seed Fund
The Unite! Seed Fund aims to achieve the maximum potential of Unite!. It is envisioned to provide financial support to innovative, co-creative and collaborative ideas from teachers, researchers and students across the university alliance.
Co-creation and innovation are within Unite!'s DNA. The Unite! Seed Fund initiative intends to promote the evolving ideas that are a result of cooperation between the different members of the Unite! community.
The current call for the Unite! Seed Fund is open until 20th March 2025.
It will cover all three funding lines: Student Activities, Teaching & Learning and Research & PhD.
Apply for Unite! Seed Fund 2025
The Unite! Seed Fund helps finance ideas coming from the Unite! community, from the students, researchers, and teachers of the 9 Unite! universities. The Seed Fund offers financial support to collaborations between at least two Unite! partners. The goal is to help get your project started and get your collaboration on the right track.
The aim of Unite! is to be an innovative, collaborative, inclusive and sustainable alliance. Through its ambition to realize excellence in education, research, and innovation by creating new opportunities, the alliance invites the Unite! community to send proposals of collaborative projects for the 2025 round of seed funding. Proposals will be evaluated based on their overall quality, sustainability and long-term perspectives, and potential impact.
Research&PhD and Teaching&Learning proposals must address on the Unite! Focus Areas: Sustainable Energy; Artificial Intelligence; Industry 4.0; Entrepreneurship; Engineering Biology (and Biotechnology); Space; Cybersecurity; and Sustainable Cities & Water.
Discover the three Unite! Seed Fund funding lines for Students, Teachers and Researchers:
Unite! Focus Areas
Successful Unite! Seed Fund projects
Since the launch of the Unite! Seed Fund we received 131 applications from the whole Unite! community. From those 45 applications got funded (10 for student activity, 16 for teaching & learning & 19 for research and PhD), have a look below to find out more information about the different projects:
The Seed Fund initiative "Unite! Games for Health" aims to establish an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programme (EMJM) focused on the development and application of Serious Games for health..
TU Darmstadt, TU Graz, Aalto University, UPC, ULisboa, Grenoble INP-UGA
Creation of a Unite! Reading Club that promotes critical thinking among its students, facilitating the exchange of ideas, recommendations and experiences in an IR and non-academic environment.
UPC , Grenoble INP & Aalto University
Both teams aimed to participate in a rocket challenge. One team required a payload for their rocket, while the other team needed to obtain data and test a flight computer.
KTH & TU Darmstadt
The objective of the project is to create a collaboration network for the teaching of Space-related subjects within the Unite! universities.
Aalto university , Grenoble INP-UGA & KTH & PoliTo & UPC & ULisboa
A diverse group of researchers and Ph.D. students participated in the workshop to discuss energy, green transition, and climate, aiming to contribute to a more sustainable future.
Wroclaw Tech , PoliTo & UPC
The SLUMP project seeks to identify innovative approaches for bringing decision-making closer together in land-use and mobility policy and practice
Aalto university , PoliTo & ULisboa & UPC
Unite! will create a knowledge graph tool that unveils the vast potential for research and innovation to expedite collaboration with all potential partners for research and university teaching.
UPC , KTH & TUDa
Scientists from TU Graz, TU Darmstadt and KTH Stockholm will foster the collaboration in Biotechnological research and PHD training to expand their leading position in research.
TU Graz , KTH & TUDa
Researchers investigate the fire risks of large battery electric vehicles, with the aim to redefine the safety landscape of electric mobility for the future.
TU Graz , PoliTo & TUDa & Wroclaw Tech
Unite! is adopting UNESCO's Open Science and OER recommendations, by pioneering multilingual OER courses at all Unite! universities. The vision: A Unite! Open Science Academy.
TU Graz , Aalto & TUDa & KTH & ULisboa & UPC & Grenoble INP-UGA & PoliTo & Wroclaw Tech
The project aims to support companies and stakeholders in achieving the EU's climate neutrality goals by researching ways for sustainable road transportation ecosystems.
TU Graz , Aalto University & KTH
Unite! researchers will work on an innovative proposal in automatic learning artificial intelligence (AI) based on a neuromorphic approach, inspired by the neural networks of the human brain.
UPC , IST & KTH
Researchers lay the foundation for a Unite! Graduate School pioneering Speech, Language and AI Technologies education and aligning Master's and Ph.D. programmes.
TU Graz , Aalto University & Grenoble INP-UGA & KTH & PoliTo & TUDa & ULisboa & Wroclaw Tech
The aim is to establish sustainable practices and promote the international exchange of knowledge and experience in this area of higher education
UPC , Aalto & Wroclaw Tech & TUDa
Three Unite! partner universities are joining forces to address the issue of freshman math skills and anxiety and create an inclusive learning environment for students and teachers.
TU Graz , ULisboa & Wroclaw Tech
Two student rocketry associations, PWr in Space from Wroclaw Tech and ÆSIR from KTH, will design, build, and launch a shared rocket.
Wroclaw Tech & KTH
Engineers now need skills in project management and leadership. The 4S Trainers Group at Wroclaw Tech launched a program for Unite! students, to tackle this need.
Wroclaw Tech , ULisboa & PoliTO
The project aims to improve current wastewater treatment techniques by combining microplastics and nanoplastics separation methods with spectroscopic tools.
UPC , Grenoble INP-UGA & PoliTo
The project aims to unite students from all partner universities to brainstorm and craft project proposals for the upcoming Unite! Seed Fund call, fostering teamwork and learning sessions.
TU Graz , Aalto University & UPC
The project aims to understand how pathological processes are regulated in the human brain to develop mitigating therapies.
TU Darmstadt , ULisboa & PoliTO
This project aims to fill the gap of learning initiatives focusing on the safety of underground transport infrastructure within the European academic education and offer a dedicated summer school.
TU Darmstadt , TU Graz & PoliTo & Wroclaw Tech
All Unite! bachelor, master and PhD students are warmly invited to design a poster on Architectural Energy for Sustainable Development. A successful Seed Fund project by PoliTO and Wroclaw Tech.
PoliTO , Wroclaw Tech
This project focuses on the socio-technological demands of converging robotics, AI, and IoT, aiming to equip students from various disciplines to face and navigate these complexities.
TU Graz , Grenoble INP-UGA & Aalto University & PoliTO
The project aims to develop advanced electrospun membranes for water treatment, proposing new multifunctional technology to remove micropollutants during filtration.
PoliTO , TUDa & Grenoble UGA
This seed fund project will assess freshmen's maths skills and create a toolkit and interactive MOOC to improve university onboarding.
TU Graz , ULisboa & Wroclaw Tech & KTH with support from MIT Boston
The project consists of planning and development activities, leading to a sustainable, long lasting research environment in the deployment of reliable robot fleets in challenging conditions
Aalto , UPC & Graz & Wroclaw