Each year, the European Student Assembly (ESA) initiative gathers more than 200 students from most European University Alliances to discuss current issues, come up with recommendations and advocate them among a selection of stakeholders and decision makers. Designed and implemented by a students and academic committee, as well as and non academic staff members from…
After the successful Think Tank activity at the European Space Agency, which gathered 86 students and 117 professors and researchers, the EELISA Community Sustainable Buildings, Cities and Communities (SusBCC) has kept working towards their mission of accelerating the transition of buildings, cities, and communities into environmentally, economically and socially sustainable agents through education. In line…
The EELISA activity “ Aquaponics and ecological engineering: from low tech to high tech ” took place on June 20 th , 2023, in the Grüntal Campus of Schweizer Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) in Wädenswil, Switzerland, jointly organized by both ZHAW and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). ZHAW holds a prominent position among Switzerland’s…
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…
The Second EELISA Research-based Learning Symposium was celebrated on May 17-19, 2023, in Pisa. An event which featured special sessions focused on the best practices of the EELISA Communities, as well as the presentation of research papers selected as part of the EELISA Scientific Student’s Competition. The main topic of discussion that was tackled during these…
Mobility, exchange and collaboration opportunities are growing rapidly at EELISA. But in the midst of this moment of acceleration, we believe it’s important to capture the vision and experience of each and every person who is making that growth possible. On this occasion, we look back to December 2022, when EELISA Community Industrial Design for…
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…
On March 30, the EELISA universities École des Ponts ParisTech and Université PSL (Paris, France), as well as Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy), were invited to Università di Torino for a meeting dedicated to Italian and French universities participating in the “European University” initiative. The aim of this gathering was to raise…
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…