The University of Palermo (UNIPA) is a consolidated cultural, scientific and teaching presence in central-western Sicily. Its 16 Departments cover the most important domains of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. About 122 courses (first and second cycle) are yearly offered as well as 44 master and specialization and 23 PhD courses, targeted to the training of specific […]
Tallinn University now has a technology-supported learning and teaching research laboratory, EDUSPACE. At the official opening event on the 25th of September, the lab team introduced to research and application projects in the field of educational innovation, which is aimed at different levels of education. The EDUSPACE research laboratory is […]
PSU Students, studying French, will help the Resting Territory Center for People in Difficult Life Situations (Perm, Russia). 3rd, 4th and 5th year students will help assist a large study of homeless people, locally. The Center is planning to use best European practices in that, particularly, France. Volunteer translators will […]
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) has signed an interuniversity cooperation agreement with Paris-Saclay University (UPS) to develop long-term partnership activities with this prestigious higher education and research institution. “Apart from UBB’s partnerships with the world’s major universities in various academic projects – consortia, grants, more exclusive organizations, etc. -, which has become a tradition at our university, UBB has […]
An innovative project led by Maynooth University that will use virtual laboratories as a teaching tool for the experimental sciences has been awarded almost €3 million funding by the Higher Education Authority (HEA). Led by Prof Denise Rooney, Head of the Department of Chemistry at Maynooth University, the project was awarded a total €2,971,700 under the Human Capital Initiative Pillar 3 programme. The ambitious […]
Every millisecond people record and generate numerous amounts of data. Yet, generating and saving data is not enough, to gain the real advantage of it, the data has to be understandable for a human being. In 300 BCE the Library of Alexandria housed perhaps the largest collection of data in […]
50 students coming from 20 different countries are enrolled in the Foundation Course edition 2020/2021 at the University of Pisa. It is one of a few Italian Programmes allowing non-EU students to fulfil the minimum learning requirements the Italian Law lays down for university enrollment. Due to the Covid-19 emergency, the first […]
Université de Paris, created in March 2019, is ranked 130th among the world’s universities in the Times Higher Education 2020 ranking. It is thus ranked 3rd among French universities and 4th among French institutions. The entry of Université de Paris into this ranking based on reputation elements such as teaching, […]
Researchers from the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology at St Petersburg University, as part of a group of Russian and American scientists, have developed the metaFlye assembler. It is designed to assemble DNA samples from microbial communities. With its help, it is possible to solve a wide range of fundamental and […]
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) supports with c. 600,000 € a new four-year bilateral research project between Vienna and Barcelona under the title “Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia: The Transformation of a Multi-Ethnic Middle Ground of the Euro-Mediterranean World”, which is coordinated since September 2020 by Prof. Dr. Walter Pohl, […]
