Una Europa Events and Opportunities

Apply to volunteer as an Una Europa Language Guide

Are you a UCD student? Do you speak German, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, French, English or Irish?

Are you interested in meeting new people and developing your intercultural and communication skills, while helping other students practice speaking a foreign language? 

Become a Language Guide volunteer and contribute to theUna Europa Language Caféthis trimester! 

Find out more and apply now

Join the Una Europa Cultural Heritage Self-Steering Committee 

Calling UCD academics with an interest in (opens in a new window)Cultural Heritage. There are up to 3 vacancies on the Una Europa Self-Steering Committee (SSC) for Cultural Heritage. SSCs invite, assess, and select project proposals to build annual work plans for delivery. At alliance level, SSCs meet virtually once per month and in-person twice a year at Una Europa General Assemblies. 

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Una Europa Staff Week 2026 | Universities as transformative learning communities for all

Universities are uniquely complex, multidisciplinary communities, where education, research, and employment intertwine. Embedded in this complexity are the versatile ways students, teachers, researchers, and professional staff collaborate and interact in both pedagogical settings and outside of them. 

This Staff Week, hosted by University of Helsinki in Finland, will provide participants with the opportunity to reflect on and intentionally develop this collaboration by encouraging them to reimagine the role of the university in researching, teaching, and community building.

The programme includes daily workshops where participants will actively lead and participate in discussions. Through participatory and engaging peer-learning methods, attendees will actively shape the contents and outcomes of the session and diversify their skill sets. 

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Una Europa Student Congress 2026

Students, are you passionate about shaping a sustainable future? Keen to tackle real-world challenges together with students from many different disciplines and institutions across Europe?

The Una Europa Student Congress is now inviting applications under the theme, 'Sustainability: From Challenge to Change'. The Congress will be hosted by Universiteit Leiden at their campus in The Hague, in the Netherlands. 

Tackle sustainability challenges in teams, explore the power of Citizen Science, and sharpen your science communication skills.

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Bachelor's, master's and PhD students / doctoral researchers from any discipline are welcome to apply.

Apply as an individual; you will be put into a team by the organisers before the programme starts.

Una Europa Student Project Incubator spring 2026

Calling students and doctoral researchers! Unlock the power of design thinking through the Una Europa Student Project Incubator, an innovative 8-week virtual programme to help you develop essential skills for working and collaborating with your peers across Europe.

This spring the Incubator will focus on breaking barriers to student engagement, using design thinking to craft real-world solutions for student wellbeing. Participate in workshops, engage in teamwork, and complete challenges and milestones to make a difference in student life and engagement on your campus.