Third Mission and Engagement
As part of its third mission and engagement activities, EU GREEN aims to design and implement a GREEN strategy in line with the SDGs and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), enabling us to strengthen the impact of these on civil society.
The topic of engagement and the third mission is entrusted to Working Group 5 (WP5). The objective is the commitment to a sustainable economic and social system through the planning and organisation of joint actions (annual action plan) of public engagement.
As part of its third mission activities, EU GREEN aims to design and implement a GREEN strategy in line with the SDGs and Sustainable Development Goals that enables us to strengthen the impact of these on civil society, as well as to expand our knowledge, reach new targets and promote new ideas and forms of collaboration.
Central to EU GREEN's mission to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and support sustainable societies in our local communities and regions is its challenge-based education model and six Research Clusters.
Sharing our expertise in these areas and collaborating with a wide and diverse network of partners, EU GREEN's goal is to design and implement a social engagement strategy that is in line with the SDGs and Europe's Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen our impact. We work to expand our knowledge, reach new target groups and generate new ideas and forms of continuous collaboration.
EU GREEN is an outreach-oriented university alliance, providing intellectual, physical and digital resources to address complex societal issues. To achieve this, an Engagement Hub is being created, a centre that aims to act as a contact point between EU GREEN and external stakeholders and communities. Through this Hub, EU GREEN partners will be able to design and organise challenge-based activities with industry and society to find joint innovative solutions and address unique sustainability challenges by disseminating sustainable best practices to local stakeholders.
The Participation Commission guides and supervises all the described activities by working closely with the working groups dealing with Education, Research and Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
The activities of the Participation Commission support international collaboration in education for sustainability, including innovative projects promoting entrepreneurship, and will ensure access and inclusion of a wide range of participants in its activities.
Under the activities instead of Accessibility. Inclusion and Diversity, the objectives of Work Package 7, which deals with In the context of its third mission activities, EU GREEN aims to design and implement a GREEN strategy in line with the SDGs and the Sustainable Development Goals that enables us to strengthen the impact of these on civil society, as well as to expand our knowledge, reach new targets and promote new ideas and forms of collaboration.
Central to EU GREEN's mission to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and support sustainable societies in our local communities and regions is its challenge-based education model and six Research Clusters.
Sharing our expertise in these areas and collaborating with a wide and diverse network of partners, EU GREEN's goal is to design and implement a social engagement strategy that is in line with the SDGs and Europe's Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen our impact. We work to expand our knowledge, reach new target groups and generate new ideas and forms of continuous collaboration.
EU GREEN is an outreach-oriented university alliance, providing intellectual, physical and digital resources to address complex societal issues. To achieve this, an Engagement Hub is being created, a centre that aims to act as a contact point between EU GREEN and external stakeholders and communities. Through this Hub, EU GREEN partners will be able to design and organise challenge-based activities with industry and society to find joint innovative solutions and address unique sustainability challenges by disseminating sustainable best practices to local stakeholders.
The Participation Commission guides and supervises all the described activities by working closely with the working groups dealing with Education, Research and Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
The activities of the Participation Commission support international collaboration in education for sustainability, including innovative projects promoting entrepreneurship, and will ensure access and inclusion of a wide range of participants in its activities.
Accessibility, inclusion and diversity
EU GREEN considers social impact and education for sustainable development as strategic objectives.
Essential elements are:
- Contributing to equipping people with fewer opportunities with the tools they need to participate in society on an equal footing;
- Contributing to overcoming the structural limitations of educational programmes that do not fully take into account the special needs of some people, working in synergy with public authorities and civil society.
The pillars of the action plan are co-designing and implementing a clear and effective inclusion strategy, evaluating its impact, ensuring constant feedback and sharing best practices with other higher education institutions and external stakeholders.
The O.U. UniPr's Inclusion, Accessibility and Diversity manages the activities of the EUGREEN WP7, which is in charge of defining the ‘Access, Inclusion and Diversity’ Guidelines conceived within the 9 partner Universities, in order to better identify the concept. The aim is to sum up the policies and the statistics about that topic, in a single European document, in order to let all the Alliance students to benefit the same common policies on Inclusion, Accessibility and Diversity. The collaboration on the work of building common guidelines is then as a starting point for the growth and the improvement of individual Universities, which can thus take eventually source from the other EUGREEN partners best practices.
Within WP7, the CAI is concerned with identifying in the joint programmes a first step to start thinking about distance learning, dedicated to UniPr students, who have difficulties in accessing education. The Alliance is currently developing an updated series of Annual Reports to summarise the key features and options of LLL (Lifelong Learning Programmes) in every Alliance Universities.
MOOCs (massive open online courses) are also on the subject of distance learning. They are courses designed for distance learning involving a number of students who are geographically dispersed to their universities, who have little access to them due to economic difficulties or disabilities, or who belong to ethnic minorities and therefore have difficulty in accessing education. The educational offer dedicated to the MOOCs is also developed in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of Europe, in pursuit of the guidelines set by the European Union 2035 Agenda.
Finally, there are several activities dedicated to the active involvement of female and male students in the Alliance, with the aim of involving them in bigger and even bigger challenges, allowing them to deal with international realities different from the context in which they are daily immersed within their university. The 2025 initiatives include the Winter Sports and Conference and the Photo Contest on ‘Diversity and Inclusion’.
The objective of the Contest is to find visual expressions of Sport, collecting photographs of University Sport in all its forms.
The Contest is part of the activities of Work Package 7 ‘Working Group on Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion’ of the EU GREEN project.
In this sense, the Photo Contest represents an important cultural initiative in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and in particular with Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (SDG 4) - Ensuring inclusive and equitable education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. Visual expressions of university sport in its various forms should highlight the role that sport itself has in contributing to the physical and mental well-being of all individuals, without barriers and prejudices.
Candidates must capture the essence of these concepts in their photos, reflecting them in their various manifestations and/or showing their interpretations of such everyday moments.
To participate in the Contest, participants must send their entries - no later than 28 February 2025 (extended to 14 March 2025) - by e-mail, (including via platforms for sending large files such as wetransfer, wesendit etc.) to photocontest@unipr.it
The following materials must be sent for participation in the Contest, under penalty of exclusion
- A photograph as per art. 2.1
- Application form and release form.
The call for entries is published with DR 2537 (Prot. no. 0285254) of 04/11/2024.
Within the context of the EU GREEN Alliance, and in particular for the WP7 working group, the staff of the UNIPR Psychological Counselling Service invites students, lecturers, technical-administrative staff, researchers and postgraduates to take part to 'Values and choices: reflect on what matters to us and live an authentic life' webinair, organized by Prof. Vanessa Artoni.
The meeting, which will be held via Microsoft Teams, is scheduled for 22 May 2025, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. It is part of a series of events organised by UNIPR under the "Thursdays of Wellbeing" initiative, within the framework of the PRISMA project, to promote psychological wellbeing across the entire university community and to address issues related to emotional and psychological distress.
Given its international scope, the meeting will be conducted in English.
All participation details can be found in the attached poster.
Within the context of the EU GREEN Alliance, and in particular for the WP7 working group, the staff of the UNIPR Psychological Counselling Service invites students, lecturers, technical-administrative staff, researchers and postgraduates to take part to 'Nourishing healthy relationships for emotional well-being' webinair, organized by Prof. Arianna Gatti, in collaboration with Prof. Rosana Stan, PhD, Lecturer and Educational Psychologist, at the University of Oradea.
The meeting, which will be held via Microsoft Teams, is scheduled for 12 June 2025, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. It is part of a series of events organised by UNIPR under the "Thursdays of Wellbeing" initiative, within the framework of the PRISMA project, to promote psychological wellbeing across the entire university community and to address issues related to emotional and psychological distress.
Given its international scope, the meeting will be conducted in English.
All participation details can be found in the attached poster.
The ‘Winter Sports & Conference’ initiative is aimed at promoting inclusion within the EU GREEN alliance. Under the coordination of the Högskolan i Gävle (Sweden), students (belonging to the different categories subject to inclusive strategies) and teachers will meet to discuss different topics related to inclusive processes and perform sports activities. For the 2024/2025 edition, participation is open to a maximum of 5 (five) participants per university.
The call for applications is available below. The deadline for submitting applications is 12 noon on 11 December 2024.
Any useful information can be received by contacting cai.esse3@unipr.it
