Building a bridge between technology and our elders was the main challenge that was set to be achieved at the EELISA seminar “Design Thinking: Technology for elderly people” organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (Turkey) and Universitatea Politehnica din București (Romania), last 16th and 17th March, 2023. Celebrated in Bucharest, this…
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…
Before a new product is launched, many questions need to be answered. Which target group is most interested? What are their needs and their aesthetic desires? How much are they willing to pay? As the winner of the first EELISA Prototype Contest, Adán Sánchez, founder of the Spanish startup “The Green Factor”, had the opportunity…
How can we use technology to give fast and precise answers to the current challenges and emergencies of today? Juan Portela, a member of the TERRA Research Group, provides us some insight on this topic in this new #EELISANarator episode, in which he shares his experience as one of the organizers and participants of the…
EELISA is an alliance of ten Higher Education institutions from eight different countries, representing roughly 194.000 students, 18.500 faculty, and 12.000 staff members. An amalgam of cities, people, cultures, and languages that goes beyond boundaries to create a space of diversity, collaboration, and exchange. This is represented by EELISA logo as an assemblage of parts…
In the current challenging global context, higher education is increasingly taking on an important role in activating innovative ways of learning, knowledge exchange, and experiences that can lead to the necessary social transformations. Thus, one of the main goals of the EELISA Alliance is to propose a compelling, implementable, and shared vision of the profile…
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…
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…
Last January, 150 students from 13 European universities, together with more than 100 researchers and international experts, participated in the EELISA think tank on sustainable buildings, the largest event of its kind to date. This groundbreaking experience has been developed by the EELISA Community Sustainable Buildings, Cities and Communities (EELISA BCC) in collaboration with the…
2022 comes to an end and opens the door to a new stage of EELISA. As the second year in the life of the Alliance, this year has meant the activation and achievement of many of the initiatives and milestones marked on paper at the beginning of the EELISA journey. The new year brings out…