STARS EU advances preparations for its next Project Meeting in Tenerife

STARS EU ALLIANCE is advancing the preparations for its next Project Meeting to be held at the University of La Laguna (ULL) on November 25 and 26, 2025. The working meeting, which will bring together around 180 people from the nine partner universities in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), is a further step in the strategy that the alliance has been developing since the end of October 2023, the date of its official consolidation.

The event will be held at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (ESIT) and will feature plenary sessions, thematic workshops, meetings of the different working groups and networking spaces aimed at coordinating strategies and advancing in the projects and objectives of the alliance. The agenda also includes social activities, designed to strengthen integration between participants and create synergies that result in the work dynamic. These include a guided tour of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a gala dinner.

Registration for the meeting is open until 30 September 2025 and can be done through the official registration form, accessible from the following link: https://sites.google.com/ull.edu.es/stars-eu-project-meeting-2025/home?utm_source=chatgpt.com, where you can consult the planned work agenda, as well as useful and interesting information about the city and the island.

Work dynamics

This event is in addition to the working meetings that the alliance has been holding at the different partner universities, located in Spain, Sweden, Albania, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal. All of them are aimed at intensifying scientific collaboration, strengthening academic networks and advancing the great common objectives: digital transformation, green transition, social value and well-being and educational innovation.

 

Some of the most recent examples are the last Project Meeting at the Hochschule Bremen-University of Applied Sciences  (Germany), which took place in November 2024, or the STARS EU Annual Congress hosted by the Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durrës (UAMD), located in Albania, held in March of this year.

Appointment in Tenerife

This is the second time that the STARS EU partners have met at the University of La Laguna. The first was in March 2023 ─ when it was still aspiring to achieve the European University seal ─ on the occasion of its annual conference, which meant “a clear strengthening of the network and its working groups”.

This event in Tenerife “represents a key opportunity to continue consolidating the progress made in these almost two years of activity, share good practices and strengthen ties between partner universities”, as pointed out by the coordinator of STARS EU at the University of La Laguna, José Sigut.

Sigut also remarked that the boom and consolidation experienced by European university alliances in the last two years has made them a “strategic pillar for the European Higher Education Area, especially in the promotion of transnational cooperation, academic innovation and the creation of joint degrees”, an aspect on which STARS EU is already working.