Arqus calls for applications and opportunities - Archive
EXPIRED CALLS - University of Padua
Arqus Spring School "Diversity beyond the landscape. Excellencies and challenges of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Prosecco Hills"
The University of Padua, within the Erasmus + Program Key Action 2, European Universities, Arqus – European University Alliance, launches a call for a maximum of 15 places in the Spring School 'Diversity beyond the landscape. Excellencies and challenges of the Unesco World Heritage Site of the Prosecco Hills', Padova - Conegliano, March - May 2022.
The call is open to students with a bachelor or master degree, enrolled for the a.y. 2021-22 in the last two years of a five single-cycle degree programme or in a master degree programme or in the final year of a bachelor programme. A B2 level in English language is required.
The application and its annexes must be uploaded by 1.00 pm on February 20, 2022.
Call and application form
Virtual Exchange: NICE programme
NICE is a Virtual Exchange programme intended for all Arqus students . The project is broken down into seven educational modules aimed at developing soft skills, namely entrepreneurial, intercultural, and interpersonal skills, ability to cooperate, teamworking skills, and problem-solving approach, in order to promote the students’ professional growth and entry into the labour market.
Course duration: March 7 – June 30, 2022
Number of available places: 20 for Unipd students, 10 for Arqus students
Dedline: February 7, 2022
Call and further information
Arqus Twinning - call 2021/2022
The call is open to all Unipd professors interested in carrying out joint teaching activities with one of the Arqus partner universities, involving a group of Unipd students (minimum 3 - maximum 6 students). Mobility will be funded for a minimum of 3 and maximum 5 days (+2 travel days) at an Arqus partner university. Applications in Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) and STEM disciplines are prioritised.
In order to participate in the selection, please fill in the online application form and upload the invitation letter from the partner University.
Deadline: February 1, 2022
Info: Samira Bonucci, tel. 049 8276353, international.projects@unipd.it
Arqus call for application in the Arqus Alliance website
Arqus Research Exchange 2021/22
The planned research stay has a minimum duration of two weeks and a maximum duration of three months depending on the funding category. Eligible for research exchanges are professors, senior researchers, postdocs, doctoral candidates, and advanced master students from all faculties and fields of research.
Application deadline is November 20, 2021.
Research Stays and Site Visits 2021/22
Action Line 6 "Research support & Early-Stage Researcher Development", coordinated by the University of Graz (Austria), has set itself the goal of sustainably promoting existing and emerging cooperation in the most diverse profile-forming areas and intensifying cooperation in research at the partner universities.
Info at www.arqus-alliance.eu/news/arqus-calls-research-stays-site-visits
Inclusive Higher Education Training Programme-IHET 2022
The Inclusive Higher Education Training Programme, created by Prof. Laura Nota and her applied research team at the University of Padua (Italy), aims at developing inclusive teaching skills that take into account the heterogeneity that increasingly characterizes educational and training contexts, the students, and those who participate in university classrooms.
As further detailed below (paragraph: “Inclusive Higher Education for a university working towards the 2030 Agenda”), the Programme is strictly connected to the 2030 Agenda and in particular to Sustainable Development Goal n.4: ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
At the end of the proposed training programme, the participants will be able to design and conduct teaching activities that give value to complexity and heterogeneity. They will be able to develop a teaching program focused on equal opportunities and the presumption of competence. They will consider possible it to favour skills and abilities thanks to appropriate conditions, giving an active role to all learners, looking for original solutions, and personalizing proposals and supports.
The training, engaging small groups of teaching staff, will be held online at the local level in each of the Alliance universities starting with March 3 and will carry on until May-June 2022.
Winter and spring schools on "Diversity, interdisciplinarity and societal challenges"
The University of Padua, within the Erasmus + Program Key Action 2, European Universities, Arqus – European University Alliance, launches a call for a maximum of 6 places in the joint Winter and Spring Schools on ’Diversity, Interdisciplinarity and societal challenges (Granada, 14-18 February 2022) and 'Diversity beyond the landscape. Excellencies and challenges of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Prosecco Hills' (Padova - Conegliano, March - May 2022).
This Call for applications concerns the following activities:
1. the Arqus Winter School on "Diversity, Interdisciplinarity and Societal Challenges" (Granada, February 14-18, 2022), reserved for six students. The Winter School will be attended by six students selected from each of the seven Arqus Universities. It includes lectures, workshops and field trips addressing the following units (days):
a. “Diversity” and citizenship in a complex world
b. Human and social diversity
c. Biodiversity and geodiversity
d. Making connections: Diversity in coastal environments
e. Engaged European citizenship in a diverse world. The acquired knowledge and working methods will be used and expanded in the Spring School;
2. the Spring School on 'Diversity beyond the landscape. Excellencies and challenges of the Unesco World Heritage Site of the Prosecco Hills' (Padova and Conegliano, March – May 2022). The Spring School includes four two-day field trips to the Unesco site of The Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, and online and face-to-face teaching in Padova and Conegliano. The six selected students will join a class made of fifteen additional students selected via a separate international call open to senior bachelor (final year) and master students.
Deadline: December 20, 2021, at 1.00 pm.
Arqus PhD week for Careers Outside Academia
From 13th to 15th October 2021, the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Transfer (ZWI) of the University of Graz will hold the Arqus PhD Week for Careers Outside Academia. Around 60 participants - doctoral researchers, PhD graduates and career development experts - from the seven universities of the Arqus alliance will meet with local entrepreneurs to work together. In case of travel restrictions, there will be an online version of the event. octoral researchers and early postdocs from the Arqus partner universities can apply for a travel and accommodation fund at their home universities after they have been selected for participation.
The deadline for the application is May 19, 2021
Site Visits and Joint Activities of Doctoral Groups 2021/22
Doctoral groups are invited to apply for site visits and joint activities together with their selected partner(s) from the Arqus alliance. Site visits/networking activities serve the purpose of initiating future joint projects (third-party funded project applications, summer schools, etc.). Arqus provides travel grants (incl. accommodation for a 3–5 days stay) for 3 to 5 doctoral candidates plus 1 to 2 senior researcher/s per doctoral group.
Application deadline is November 20, 2021
Arqus R.I. - Selection announcement for the awarding of one research grant 2021 - Deadline: October 29, 2021
Within the framework of the ARQUS R.I. project, Unipd awards a research grant as part of the project Work Package "Alternative Assessment Approaches".
The researcher will be involved in identifying and defining new, alternative and innovative standards for the assessment of research and researchers, contributing to the identification of new quantitative and qualitative non-bibliometric assessment criteria.
The deadline for application is October 29, 2021.
Summer term 2021: 3 summer courses on Italian culture and history
Applications can be submitted until June 7, 2021. The course fee is 150 EUR. Full fee waivers are offered to students enrolled at Arqus universities and other partners of the University of Padua > Information
PhD Educational Week on Trasferable Skills 2021
The PhD Educational Week on Transferable Skills will take place entirely online via Zoom from 21 to 25 June. It offers training activities aimed at strengthening the so–called Transferable skills, i.e. interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of research design, communication, and relationships with the professional world. All seminars will be in English.
Unipd has reserved 6 places for PhD students from the Arqus universities partners (1 for each University partner). Each university partner is asked to select its candidate and send name and contct info to adrian.momanu@unipd.it; deadline is June 17, 2021.
Project "Rethinking climate risk: the Venice paradigm"
The call is open to Unipd students, for a maximum of 20 places for virtual mobility from 22 to 26 February 2021 (Winter School), and from 12 April to 15 May 2021 (Spring School), to participate in the Project. The educational experience will be in blended teaching mode: online and face-to-face teaching in Padua and Venice. The University of Padua will award credits.
The teaching and research activity of the Spring School aims at producing research/intervention projects to be assessed within the Arqus Challenge-based learning programme.
In order to apply, Unipd students (enrolled in the last year of a Bachelor's degree programme or in the last two years of a Single-cycle degree programme, or in a Master's degree programme) must prove their proficiency in English language.
Deadline: December 18, 2020 at 1 pm.
Info: Elisa Facciolo, tel. 049 8279196, elisa.facciolo@unipd.it
Site Visits and Joint Activities of Doctoral Groups
Doctoral groups are invited to apply for site visits and joint activities together with their selected partner(s) from the Arqus alliance. Site visits/networking activities serve the purpose of initiating future joint projects (third-party funded project applications, summer schools, etc.). Arqus provides travel grants (incl. accommodation for a 3–5 days stay) for 3 to 5 doctoral candidates plus 1 to 2 senior researcher/s per doctoral group.
Application deadline has been extended to June 26, 2020
Call for applications (updated April, 3)
Application form
Instructions for applicants
List of successful proposals (August 4, 2020)
Arqus Research Exchange
The planned research stay has a minimum duration of two weeks and a maximum duration of three months depending on the funding category. Eligible for research exchanges are professors, senior researchers, postdocs, doctoral candidates, and advanced master students from all faculties and fields of research.
Application deadline has been extended to June 26, 2020
Call for applications (updated April, 3)
Application form
Instructions for applicants
List of successful proposals (August 4, 2020)
Erasmus+: Arqus Open Mobility Programme
Unipd students who are not successful winners in the first Ersmus+ call will be offered the opportunity to be relocated in compliance with the merit rankings at the partner universities of the Arqus project: Bergen, Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon and Vilnius, depending on the availability of the host locations.
Applications: February 25- March 5, 2020
The lists of successful students are now online
May, 2020
MSCA MaRaThoN 2020: a training course addressed to top candidates who wish to apply for the upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowships (MSCA –IF) call indicating the University of Padova as their Host Institution.
Important update: Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the course will be streamed online only, in May 2020. The programme is currently being revised.
Application deadline postponed to April 21, 2020
