Una Europa Fall: Develop Professional Skills, Make New Friends, and Refresh Your Language Skills with a Tandem Partner!

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Develop your professional skills in Una Europa's Project Incubator program

Una Europa's own online incubator programme provides you with the opportunity to build your professional skills in an international environment. In teams, you will have the chance to cultivate new local solutions to global challenges. In the program, you will work on solutions to today's pressing issues using the design thinking method, while also developing your communication skills in international teams, with the best idea being rewarded and funded! With the help of various workshops, researchers, and mentoring, your team will delve into one of the following challenges: 

  • Digital Humanities: Preserving Cultural Heritage.
  • Ethical Consumption: Sustainable Fashion and Consumer Activism.
  • Media Literacy for Democratic Participation: Battling Misinformation and Fake News.

You don’t need to have your own team – the program will ensure that you find a like-minded team and get to meet new people! The program is organized by Una Europa's partner university, University College Dublin. The program runs from October 6 to November 30.

Are you interested? Read more on Una Europa's website and apply for the program by September 23 at the latest.

Una Europa Student Coffees at Kaisa Library

Have you returned from your exchange but miss the international community? Or would you like to meet new people in an international setting? Join Una Europa's student coffees at the Kaisa library's guidance corner for a cup of hot coffee or tea and to make new friends! Stop by or stay longer to participate in various activities.

Una Europa's student coffee is held monthly on the following days in the guidance corner at the Kaisa library: 

25.9. 15-17

30.10. 15-17

8.12. 15-17 

Refresh your language skills with a Una Europa language tandem partner!   

Has your German become a bit rusty? Or would you like to know more than just how to order a latte macchiato on your next trip to Italy? Una Europa offers you the opportunity to refresh your language skills through the Language Tandem Tool!  

The Language Tandem Tool is a shared resource for Una Europa universities, enabling university staff and students alike to find a conversation partner and improve their language skills together.  

Una Europa’s Language Tandem Tool supports learning a language with the help of eight European universities and cultures. You can study one of the following languages with a conversation partner: 

  • Dutch
  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Finnish
  • Swedish 
     

Other international university communities provide additional language options.  

Interested? Read more in Moodle and create an account to get started! 

Questions? Contact Leena Evesti, Head of Services at the Language Centre: leena.evesti@helsinki.fi.    

Celebrate European Day of Languages with Una Europa on 26 September (FULL)

Una Europa offers short online tastings in the world's languages.

European Day of Languages is celebrated annually on 26 September. The purpose of the day is to highlight the importance of language skills and to celebrate Europe's linguistic diversity.

Now you have the chance to learn the basics of Irish, Ukrainian, French, Afrikaans and more with Una Europa! These ‘bite-size’ sessions will introduce you to the basics of a new language in just 45 minutes. You will learn how to introduce yourself, and practice your new language skills with staff and students from across the alliance.

Language tastings are offered in the following languages:

  • Irish
  • Afrikaans
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • French
  • Ukrainian
  • Dutch
  • Greek
  • Japanese
  • Turkey
  • Finnish

Our online language taster classes are aimed at complete beginners and will introduce the basics of a language with qualified teachers from across the alliance. All sessions are free, online and open to any staff or student from a Una Europa partner university. 

See the Una Europa website for more detailed timetables of the language tastings and register by 24 September.

University of Helsinki's Language Center and Faculty of Humanities are involved in organising this event together with una Europa partner universities.