Who says gaming can not help improving the future? What if you could use popular games like Roblox or Minecraft to tackle climate change in urban areas? There are many ways one could apply knowledge into games such platforms in order to find new paths towards sustainability! Following this idea, the EELISA Metaverse & Sustainability…
The event has taken place from 4 to 6 October 2023 at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest. The conference offered 27 sessions with over 100 speakers – from prominent researchers, academics, students and staff members of EELISA institutions to representatives from other European universities and international organizations. Dozens of students stood…
Being held annually since 2021 and for the third time, 3VIA 2023 will take place in the framework of the European Researchers’ Night. An annual Europe-wide public event that showcases the diversity of science and its impact on citizens’ daily lives in an nspiring way. This gamification workshop is an international collaboration of five universities…
The workshop is the second and final activity of the HI-QUAKE project of the Circular EELISA Community funded by the Second EELISA Joint Call. The first topic to be adressed is challenge-based learning projects. It is an international and interdisciplinary collaboration of two universities under the EELISA European University Alliance: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (ITU) from…
The EELISA community “Egalitarian Societies: Opportunities for Everyone” arises from different Service Learning projects that work with very diverse social groups. In these projects, students participate in activities that have direct contact with the real problems of our society. However, the participation of engineers in this type of projects, with an important social component, presents…
The Circular@[action] series continues with an intensive Fall Academy of “String Figures of the Waste Terrain: Trans-disciplinary storytelling of waste through the Mediterranean” to not only use Istanbul as a key laboratory of trans-disciplinary dialogue between international EELISA program partners and local stakeholders, but also to transfer the knowledge created during the mobilities into the…
The second phase of the circular@[action] series by the Circular EELISA Community was hosted by ETSIAAB (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) between the 26 to 28 of April, with a participation of 23 students and staff members from five different EELISA Alliance member universities (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest,…
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…
Circular Models is an event that seeks to promote research and innovation in the field of Circular Economy. This workshop brings together researchers, academics, and business representatives to explore innovative, inclusive and circular solutions. In this two-and-a- half-day event, key topics related to the circular economy such as culture, creativity and inclusive society, advanced materials…