ERASMUS BIP on Emerging Technologies for Innovative Entrepreneurship

From 2025 March 17th to 21st, Iscte hosted the event ‘ERASMUS BIP – Emerging Technologies for Innovative Entrepreneurship’, organised by Professor Renato Pereira, Deputy Director for Internationalisation and Research at Iscte’s School of Management, with Vice-Rector for the PIONEER Alliance Helena Carreiras as guest. The abovementioned BIP intended to provide students with both a theoretical […]
European University Alliances: a key asset for EU competitiveness

On Thursday 27 February, the European Commission organised the event ‘Shaping the Future: European Universities for a Competitive Europe’, to mark the fifth anniversary of the European University Alliances. This high-level conference brought together more than 400 university representatives and European decision-makers to discuss the future of transnational partnerships and their role in strengthening the […]
Ceremonial Opening of the PIONEER Alliance Project at Université Gustave Eiffel, in Paris

The PIONEER Alliance, a prestigious European University Alliance Project focused on developing consortium on sustainable cities and smart transportation, was officially launched at Université Gustave Eiffel in Paris. From February 25 to 27, 2025, experts, coordinators, and representatives from ten leading European universities gathered to kick-off this groundbreaking initiative aimed at shaping the future of […]
InCITIES BIP Cities Futures – Interdisciplinary Challenges

As part of the European InCITIES project, ISCTE organised the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) advanced school pilot titled Cities Futures – Interdisciplinary Challenges under the scientific and pedagogical responsibility of Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Associate Professor with Habilitation at ISCTE. This BIP started the 30th of October 2024 and runed until the 24th of January […]
An article on: Piacere di conoscerti – Expert exchange to get to know our new PIONEER partner

In October 2024, two Laurea Information and Publishing Services experts participated in an exchange week for university library staff organised by the IUAV University of Venice through the Erasmus+ programme. In this article, we report on our key observations regarding the factors that link Laurea and IUAV: the PIONEER cooperation, the sustainability activities and the […]
European Hackathon 2025: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Logistics

Since 2021, the Université Gustave Eiffel has partnered with AFIT France (French Transport Infrastructure Financing Agency) to study the evolution of mobility and its impact on transport infrastructure. This collaboration inspired the creation of the European Hackathon, a platform for students to propose innovative solutions to pressing transportation issues. The 2025 edition of the Hackathon […]
An article on: Write about research, innovation and development activities in an inspiring, understandable and popularised style

From a societal impact perspective, it is important to explain in a concrete and practical way how the research, innovation and development (RDI) work carried out at universities of applied sciences also benefits individual citizens, companies and other communities. It is not enough to communicate the results of the work only to the funders or […]
ISCTE BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME From place to city: constructing collectively the habitat

From the 8th to the 12th of July, ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa held the ERASMUS+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), “From place to city: constructing collectively the habitat.” This BIP was organised by Alexandra Paio, Professor at ISCTE, alongside five partners from the fields of Planning, Architecture, Urban Tourism, and Anthropology: Giovanna Marconi (Iuav – […]
PRESS RELEASE: The PIONEER Alliance joins the European University Initiative

PIONEER European University Alliance and Future Cities – Collaboration with knowledge-intensive regional ecosystems in Europe. The European Universities Initiative by the European Commission aims to strengthen the strategic partnerships in higher education across the European Union. Within this initiative, the Commission has awarded the PIONEER Alliance a significant project grant from the Erasmus+ programme on […]
An article on: Project bubble – true or false?

I started thinking about the concept of a project bubble because it had been on my mind for a long time. I did an online search for ’project bubble’, but the results were very poor. It seems that no one has written or published much about the phenomenon, at least not online. I didn’t necessarily […]