“European Engineering Projectwork”, a course that brings engineering education to the next level

As an alliance of Higher Education Institutions encompassing many graduate engineering schools and technological universities, EELISA aims to develop a new EELISA European engineer profile. A compelling, implementable, and shared model that inspires the necessary transformations in the training processes to foster the new generation of professionals ready to address and contribute to the new…

Building bridges outside EELISA with External Stakeholders

  On Tuesday 16th of May, the EELISA External Stakeholder Meeting was held via Zoom, where Invited industry collegues joined EELISA members to discuss the improvement of international internships within the Alliance. During the event, seven globally recognised companies (such as Siemens, Airbus and LinkedIn) and associations (e.g. ARILOG) took the opportunity to engage in meaningful…

Enriching the academic experience with sustainability competences: an insight into the EELISA Community “SusCo”

EELISA Communities are at their best going through an increase of collaborations and joint activities towards their missions. But how is this exchange happening and impacting their members? Prof. Irene Martín Rubio, from the Department of Organizational Engineering, Business Administration and Statistics of the UPM School of Engineering and Industrial Design: Escuela Técnica Superior de…

From PHD to innovation!

PhD students discover potential for innovation in their research Not just a PhD project, but also a business idea? On the first EELISA PhD Innovation Day Doctoral students at FAU and EELISA partner universities had the possibility to discover how much potential there is in their own research topic. The full-day workshop was held by FAU’s…

Building AI ethically? Count me in! Konstantinos Parginos’ experience in Pisa

Last week, the Seasonal School “Ethos+tekhne, a new generation of researchers”, took place in Pisa. This was a groundbreaking student-led activity organised by Scoula Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Université Paris Sciences et Lettres which was selected for funding by the first EELISA Joint Call. During this one-week schoool, participants from different EELISA institutions…

“For a more inclusive and responsible world” – an insight into the EELISA activities for IDWGS.

From left to right: Isabel Salgueiro (EELISA InnoCORE Coordinator), Krisztina László (BME), Inés Sánchez (UPM), Adeline Favier (PSL), Virginia Petre (UPB), Julien Becker (ENPC), Laura Tierling (EELISA Gender Equality ¬ Diversity workgroup) and Magda Luthay (FAU) Two days of activities, three months of preparation work, and over twenty people involved. This is how EELISA commemorated…