'Una Europa in the Community' Student Project Incubator

Badge awarded to

Thomas Rice

Issued on 11 Dec 2025 by

Una Europa

The ‘Una Europa in the Community’ Student Project Incubator is an 8-week online programme for undergraduate and postgraduate students from the eleven Una Europa universities. It aims to bridge the gap between universities and local communities, fostering collaboration to enhance their collective impact in addressing global challenges. Grounded in the “think globally, act locally” principle and challenge-based learning methodologies, the programme invites students to design prototype solutions in one of the following key topics: 1) Digital Humanities: Preserving Cultural Heritage, 2) Ethical Consumption: Sustainable Fashion and Consumer Activism, and 3) Media Literacy for Democratic Participation: Battling Misinformation and Fake News. During the programme, participants engage in workshops, collaborative teamwork, and milestone challenges that equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify local needs and co-create innovative, community-oriented solutions. The 'Una Europa in the Community' Student Project Incubator is coordinated by the University College Dublin.

Achievement Type	Badge
Field of Study	Digital Humanities: Preserving Cultural Heritage

Issuer

Una Europa

communications@una-europa.eu

Una Europa is an alliance of 11 leading research-intensive universities from all corners of Europe. Together, we are forging a new path for education and research in Europe and beyond to shape our shared future for the better. The Una Europa community spans more than half a million students, 100,000 members of staff and 10 languages, grounded in over 1,000 years of collective heritage.

Una Europa partner universities:

Founded in 2019, Una Europa has secured successive rounds of European Union funding to realise our vision for a European ‘University of the Future’. In just three years, the alliance’s pilot project succeeded in launching nine joint programmes – including Europe’s first truly joint bachelor’s degree – transcending boundaries of discipline, institution, and country to take international collaboration to the next level. The alliance has also taken its first steps towards a common research ecosystem underpinned by a shared research and innovation agenda.

Guided by its 2030 Strategy, Una Europa is working towards a truly inter-university and pan-European campus, shaped by universities’ universal and fundamentally interwoven obligations to society: research and innovation, teaching and learning, and societal outreach.

Visit una-europa.euuna-europa.eu to learn more.

Criteria

Participants who complete the programme and obtain this badge will be able to: 1) Understand the role of universities within their communities and why they must collaborate on tackling larger societal challenges, 2) Understand how university-community collaboration can amplify social impact and outreach, 3) Reflect on their own community and learn from other European communities, 4) Reflect on their role within their community and take steps towards making a positive change in society, 5) Engage critically with the academic content related to the programme’s key topics, deepening their understanding of the connection between higher education and civic participation, 6) Work in intercultural and virtual teams of students from across the Una Europa alliance on developing a localised solution for a global challenge based on the ‘think globally, act locally’ principle.