Call for applications: Circle U. Sandpits 2023

Researchers and Ph.D. candidates are invited to apply for the 2023 edition of Circle U. Sandpits. The Circle U. Sandpits offer an innovative tool to foster interdisciplinarity and to connect internal and external stakeholders. Apply by 31 May 2023.

In the field of interdisciplinary research, the “Sandpits” approach is used to encourage free-thinking. With the Sandpits initiative, Circle U. brings together academics and Ph.D. candidates from various disciplines and countries as well as non-academic partners in residential workshops, give them freedom to choose the themes that speak to them with the aim to bring out new initiatives and research topics.

Together with an external facilitator with expertise on interdisciplinary research, participants will brainstorm and identify potential threats and barriers to the implementation of their initiatives. The two-day residential workshops are going to take place in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) on 11–12 September and on 22–23 November 2023.

Call for applications: Circle U. Sandpits 2023

This initiative is open to the following Circle U. universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), King’s College London (United Kingdom), Université Paris Cité (France), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Louvain (Belgium) and University of Oslo (Norway).

Sandpits 2022

News stories from the two Sandpit workshops in 2022:


Published Feb. 28, 2023 12:17 PM - Last modified Mar. 25, 2024 8:18 AM