Discover what's new in the Circle U. Community

Circle U. leadership gathered at Aarhus University from 4 to 6 November for three days of meetings. The programme brought together representatives from the Management and Coordination work package, the Management Board, the Circle U. Student Union (CUSU) and the General Assembly to reflect on the alliance’s achievements and discuss its priorities for the years ahead.

From vineyards and rural landscapes to conversations with local communities, the Sustainable Agritourism Intensive Week offered students a different way of learning and new perspectives to take home. Hear from the students themselves about their experiences and key takeaways.

This September, Circle U. welcomed a new intern. Henri Thiel has joined the team as a Policy and MEL assistant, and over the coming months, he will contribute to policy monitoring and the implementation of the alliance's MEL framework.

On 14 October 2026, Circle U. student ambassadors successfully delivered their first joint alliance-wide activity, bringing together students from across Europe for an online Student Info Session and Welcome Day organised as part of Erasmus Days. The one-hour event combined short university presentations with interactive Q&A sessions in breakout rooms.

In early October, Aarhus University hosted the very first Staff Days for the members of Circle U.’s Communities of Practice (CoPs). Over two days, participants shared their professional experiences and discussed how to develop their CoPs even further.

Each month, we present one of the 11 seed-funded projects running this year. This month, discover how Upholding Difficult Dialogue in Times of Crisis: Palestinian, Israeli and European Perspectives is creating space for young people to engage with difficult questions of identity, coexistence and dialogue. Read on to learn more.

Language teachers, teacher educators and researchers from across the Circle U. alliance came together in Vienna for two days of exchange on language teaching and learning in higher education.

How can a short research stay transform your academic network and spark new interdisciplinary projects? For Anna Louise Skovgaard, taking advantage of the Circle U. Postdoc Mobility programme provided the stepping stone needed to bridge research communities in Denmark and Norway.

As part of this year's Erasmus Days, Circle U. is organising two online sessions to help you discover what our European University Alliance has to offer.

In a Circle U. collaboration during the summer term 2026, master’s students from Agronomy and from English Education - two disciplines that rarely work together - joined forces across borders to turn specialist research into an educational resource for the next generation, putting the valuable work of knowledge transfer into practice. In just a few months, an idea from a Circle U. matchmaking event became a completed international collaboration connecting research, education and society.

Matchmaking, playful challenges, a Design Sprint, and three brand-new course concepts. That's how UCLouvain spent two days hosting Circle U.'s Academic Matchmaking Event on 7–8 September. Around ten academics from across the alliance turned first conversations into real course ideas: from AI and democracy to poetry and narrative medicine. Read the full story to see what came out of it!

The University of Belgrade successfully hosted the international interdisciplinary Summer School “AI and Society in a Transforming World.” Organised within the framework of the Circle U. European University Alliance, the event brought together doctoral students and professors from leading European higher education institutions.