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 […]
An article on: Geopolitical instability challenges student mobility in European higher education
In the aftermath of COVID-19, there have been the first optimistic reports of an upturn in international student mobility. Whether this positive development will continue depends largely on the current geopolitical reality and how well higher education in Europe is able to cope with instability and turbulence resulting from regional conflicts, economic crises and societal […]
PIONEER Alliance members meet at planning workshop in Bern
Representatives of the European University Alliance PIONEER met at BFH to plan for the future. The goal of PIONEER is to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable through long-term cooperation. In a nutshell Representatives of PIONEER Alliance met at BFH in May 2024 to plan future activities. The alliance aims to make cities inclusive, […]
