Unite Students Call for Participation: Share Your Tech Project with a Social Impact

Unite! promotes social responsibility at the heart of academic life and encourages initiatives that drive sustainability, inclusion, and innovation.
Unite! will select scientific and technological projects that could lead to active engagement with society and that have the potential to inspire new collaborative projects in schools within the Unite Alliance.
The selected projects will be presented in a hybrid session to secondary school teachers, who will attend the XI Unite! Dialogue in Barcelona, 25-28th February 2025, during a morning session on Friday 28th. They will afterward have the opportunity to meet and collaborate on these projects to develop them with pre-university students at their high school.

A maximum of 3 students per project will be able to travel to Barcelona and take part in this initiative to present their projects and act as mentors for secondary school students. Additionally, all participants will be recognized for their participation with a Unite! Open Badge.
Moreover, all the projects that are proposed and meet the criteria will have the opportunity to be displayed on the eTwinning and Unite! websites. eTwinning is an online platform that connects schools across Europe, enabling them to collaborate on educational projects in a secure digital environment, and it will serve as a resource to inspire new initiatives for pre-university students based on the projects presented during the Dialogue.

Requirements for submitting a project:

• Scientific-technological project: The subject of the project must be scientific-technological. We are looking for a specific project already developed or in progress at the date of the call, so that the specific results can be presented during the event.
• Social impact: The project must be presented in such a way that it highlights its potential social and community impact as well as the attraction to STEAM studies, in general. Projects should be presented so that they can arouse the interest of pre-university teachers to inspire projects with younger students.
• Innovation and creativity: Initiatives that present innovative approaches to solving social problems and that promote the use of accessible and sustainable technologies will be particularly valued.
• Potential for implementation at the pre-university level: Preferably, projects should have the potential to be adapted in pre-university contexts, offering options for implementation at different levels.
• Availability: Selected projects will be presented in person at the XI Unite! Dialogue in Barcelona. Selected students should be available to travel during the dates of the event.

Submit your proposal by January 20th, 2025.
To apply, fill in the form
For more information, please contact: pol.sabate.sanantonio@upc.edu.