Kathy Bradley, Head of the Skills Centre, Sally Orren (Language Centre) and Deirdre Parker (Career Services) attended an International Staff Week in May 2023, organised by the International Relations Office of the University of Lodz, Poland.

UCC recently hosted staff and students in Education from several UNIC universities, for three days of design thinking and creativity in the TESTEd ‘Makerspace’ hybrid event.

Cork City, Ireland is part of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities which currently has 229 active active member cities throughout 55 countries.

The third in Cork CityLabs ‘Future of Port’ Seminar Series, we connect community, city and university colleagues across the UNIC European University Alliance and Port University League. This series brings thought leaders together for conversations that help inspire us to rethink and redesign the future of our urban centers – in a citizen centered, diverse and ecological manner.

TTT 3 - Teach the Teacher Training session 3: International Co-Teaching - is an online international workshop dedicated to the teaching approach of Virtual Exchange.

UNIC partner, the University of Oulu, will host an online event, Visiting Guest Lectures in Transnational Citizen Science, open to UNIC partners, on 30 May 2023 from 9.00am to 11.10am (Irish time). The event will be held online via Zoom and is open to the 100 fastest participants.

More information and registration details: https://unic.eu/en/events/visiting-guest-lectures-transnational-citizen-science.

UNIC partner Erasmus University Rotterdam will host a Summer School on 'Education for Social Change' on their campus on 3rd to 6th July 2023. See more information, and registration details: https://unic.eu/en/news/summer-school-opportunity-unic-academics-education-social-change.

In celebration of Europe Day, May 9th, we asked UNIC colleagues what being part of Europe means to them, and what being part of the UNIC European university alliance means to them.