The European University Alliance STARS EU (Strategic Alliance for Regional Transition) The University of La Laguna continues its visibility campaign to promote the opportunities it offers to students, faculty, and research and administrative staff across its various departments. This time, the initiative took place at... Faculty of Pharmacy, where the main lines of action of the alliance were presented, the work developed in these almost two years of journey and the possibilities it offers to the university community.
This campaign has been taking place in different centers of the University of La Laguna, such as the Law school, the Biology Section of the Faculty of Sciences and the Higher School of Engineering and Telecommunications (ESIT) with the aim of promoting the opportunities that STARS EU offers in the academic and scientific fields. These include international mobility programs, joint research projects, interdisciplinary training, and innovation initiatives with an impact on regional development.
Joint research
During the talk, the attending teachers were able to learn firsthand about the research projects that STARS EU has launched, such as STARS-Health, focused on improving the digital skills of older people in health management, and in which the University of La Laguna participates along with other partners of the alliance, as explained by the professor Angel Acebes Vindel, co-leader of Thematic Interest Group (TIG) Healthy Aging of the alliance.
In his speech, Acebes highlighted the advantages of joint research within the alliance, as well as the important role these consortia play in the field of European higher education: there are currently 65 across Europe, bringing together almost 600 universities, as explained in the talk given by the STARS EU technical staff.
The meeting also served to explain the upcoming calls for applications that the University of La Laguna will open for mobility programs associated with intensive combined training programs., BIPs (in English Blended Intensive Programs), associated with the Erasmus+ program. This teaching modality allows students to undertake short stays at the universities of the alliance to complement their prior online training.
Innovative academic proposals
This call for proposals, which will be released soon, is joined by the one focused on innovative academic offerings (Call for innovative academic offersThis initiative, launched by STARS EU, is open to participation from faculty at the University of La Laguna until October 30th. It seeks to propose innovative initiatives available in English or easily translatable, which can be integrated into the alliance's European curriculum at various levels of undergraduate or master's programs.
With these actions, the University of La Laguna reinforces its commitment to internationalization, inter-university cooperation, and regional transformation—three of the fundamental pillars underpinning the work of STARS EU. Centers interested in receiving one of these STARS EU information sessions can contact their staff at difusion@ull.edu.es.
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