U4 Newsletter November 2018

Updated Privacy Policy 

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into effect on 25 May. Therefore, we have updated our privacy statement on www.u4network.eu. 

Göttingen, 23-24 November 2018

Conference 'Bildung' for Sustainable Development 

The conference deals with the concept of sustainability, prepares objectives and approaches for education on sustainable development and provides a forum for for the exchange of perspectives.

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Ghent, 17-18 October 2018

Review Joint Seminar 'Qualitative Methods in Social Research'

In the framework of the Ghent-base project 'Established and Emerging Methods: Uses and Variation', a two-day seminar was organized with the main emphasis on qualitative research methods, both established and emerging, as undertaken by doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and senior professors.

Ghent, 29-30 October 2018

Staff Training: Assessing Quality in University Partnerships

Ghent University and the EUF invited higher education staff dealing with international partnerships or quality assurance professionals to join this cutting-edge training on quality in university partnerships.

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Video Pilot Project of the Green Office Göttingen

With the strong support of the U4 partners, the Green Office Göttingen has now developed a video concept that highlights the sustainable engagement of Göttingen's scientists in the global context.

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Göttingen, 4-7 September 2018

Review 11th Annual Legal Research Network Conference

The 11th annual LRN conference hosted by the Göttingen law faculty has taken place from 4th until 7th September in the historic building of the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen.

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Afternoon-Tea with U4 students at Uppsala University

On a rainy and windy September day in Uppsala, 21 U4 students gathered for an afternoon-tea organized by the International Office. The overall aim was to raise awareness and knowledge about the different U4 universities and the U4 network.

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Göttingen, 27-31 August 2018

Review Summer School on Clinical and Translational Neuroscience

During the last week of August a selected group of 16 students from 11 different countries gathered in Göttingen to participate in the 6th edition of the Summer School on 'Clinical and Translational Neuroscience'.

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Göttingen, 22-27 July 2018

Review HASCO 2018 

In this 7th edition of the international summer school, 40 undergraduate students from 18 different institutes in twelve countries came together for a full week to learn about hadron collider physics.

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Groningen, 9-13 July 2018

Review Summer School 'Creating Climate for a Change'

In this first edition of the interdisciplinary U4 Summer School 19 highly motivated students from fourteen different nationalities worked on real-life cases brought forward by the U4 partners.

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Thorikos, 16 July - 4 August 2018

Review Field School 'Greek Material Culture'

During three weeks a team of U4 Bachelor and Master students studied finds from seven different old and new excavations in Thorikos.

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Uppsala, 30 July - 3 August 2018

Review Summer School 'Gender Studies'

For this 2nd edition the interdisciplinary summer school was organized around the ever-timely theme of Methods, Methodologies and Ethics: Complexities and Responsibilities in Doing Gender Research.

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Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson has received King's Medal

Uppsala University's Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson has received the H.M. The King's Medal of the 12th size with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim for "exemplary work in Swedish higher education". Futhermore, Professor Svedjedal at Uppsala University's Department of Literature has received the H.M. The King's Medal of the 8th size, with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim.

Uppsala, 14-18 May 2018

A Göttingen staff visit to Uppsala

The Göttingen group consisted of colleagues o the Presidential Office and the Göttingen Campus Office. Therefore, they chose to spend a week in the Vice-Chancellor's Office of Uppsala University to get to know the colleagues within the U4 Network and exchange ideas and experiences about daily operations.

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The graduate student of the University of Göttingen Arnab Dutta receives Arenberg Coimbra Group Award

The graduate student Arnab Dutta of the University of Göttingen received the Arenberg Coimbra Group Award for Erasmus students. Every year, the award of 5.000 Euro is given to graduates of a University of the Coimbra group who went abroad to one of the Coimbra Universities in the frame of the Erasmus Program.

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Groningen, 31 May – 1 June 2018

Workshop 'EU foreign policy and the response from East Asia'

In the framework of the U4 Taiwan Studies network the workshop was centered around four main topics: (1) political developments and EU-East Asia Relations, (2) governing economic relations between the EU and East Asia, (3) normative power Europe and East Asia, and (4) the EU and China: policies and normative stance.

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Göttingen, 19-20 April 2018

Visit of the Faculty Office 'Humanities and Social Sciences'

In late April, the Faculty Office for Humanities and Social Sciences, Uppsala University, visited Göttingen. The aim of the visit, which was initiated by Uppsala but generously planned and arranged by the Göttingen hosts, was to contribute to the Uppsala office's continuous work for enhanced internationalization and quality.

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Brussels, 16 April 2018

Workshop 'European University Networks'

Within the workshop offered by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Rectors Conference in Brussels, Vice-President Prof. Dr. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne und Dr. Stephan van Galen, Secretary General of Groningen University, presented the U4-Network to the representatives of the European Commission

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Uppsala, 16-17 May 2019

Save the Date | Conference International Perspectives in Teaching & Learning 

The IPT&L cycle changes its format and will continue as a conference in 2019: 'From Theory to Practice. From Discussion to Cooperation.' The conference is also open for alumni of the IPTL programme.