Student, apply for Una Europa Staff Week 2026 in Helsinki | Universities as transformative learning communities for all

Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet invites interested staff, lecturers, and students and doctoral researchers from Una Europa partner universities to take part in the Una Europa Staff Week 2026 from 2–5 June 2026.

Universities are uniquely complex, multidisciplinary communities, where education, research, and employment intertwine. Embedded in this complexity are the versatile ways students, teachers, researchers, and professional staff collaborate and interact in both pedagogical settings and outside of them. These collaborations are part of the everyday work at universities.

This Staff Week will provide participants with the opportunity to reflect on and intentionally develop this collaboration by encouraging them to reimagine the role of the university in researching, teaching, and community building. Participants will gain new insights into how formal and non-formal learning opportunities can be utilised in different areas of work within the university community and tools for overcoming the challenges and limitations that can inhibit non-formal teaching and learning.

The Staff Week programme consists of daily workshops where participants will actively lead and participate in discussions and engage with one another. Through participatory and engaging peer-learning methods, participants will actively shape the contents and outcomes of the session and diversify their skill sets. This allows participants to use their own expertise to teach and learn from each other. 

The Staff Week open for applications for students and doctoral researchers at all study levels who are interested in exploring and developing practices around student–staff engagement and fostering more collaborative ways of working between teachers, staff, and students, and bring student voice into the discussions.

Interested? Please read more on Una Europa website and apply by 23 February. 

Please note that Una Europa Helsinki does not cover travel/accommodation costs for participants from the University of Helsinki. Staff Week is free of charge for participants.