STARS EU has opened a call for undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students to participate in the international online Digital Transformation Workshop, which will be held on June 12, 2026.

The aim of the event is to foster research collaborations between member universities, create a network of students within STARS EU and provide a space for the presentation and discussion of research papers.

Areas of work

The workshop will be organized into three areas of work: Artificial Intelligence, coordinated by Raphël Couturier, from the Marie and Louis Pasteur University (France); Cybersecurity, coordinated by Joanna Kolodziej, from the Polytechnic University of Krakow (Poland) and Digital literacy, inclusion and education, coordinated by Madelon van Oostrom, from the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands).

The call for applications ─whose contributions on ongoing or completed research must be submitted in English─ is open to students from all disciplines belonging to the nine member universities of STARS EU.

Deadline for submission

Abstracts, whose maximum length is 3,000 characters (including spaces) must be submitted before May 1, 2026, through the following platform: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/OWDT2026

Those responsible for each thematic line will carry out the evaluation of the works at the end of May 2026.

Last week, Bremen University of Applied Sciences (HSB) held a Staff Week with participation of members of all STARS EU partners. The German institution is also running three Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) independently for the first time. These activities are important building blocks on the way to becoming a European university.

The Staff Week focused on digital working methods at the participating STARS EU universities. Close to 50 experts on e-learning, digital campus and Erasmus Without Paper, as well as teaching staff and researchers from the Thematic Interest Group (TIG) “Digital Transformation“ came together to discuss this complex topic. The aim is to gradually establish a joint digital campus.

The launch of the three Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) is an important test for the further development of the internationalisation of HSB‘s curricula. Several STARS EU partner universities are involved in these programmes.

The three projects at a glance:

• “Startup Blended Intensive Programme”, School of International Business with Stephan Form together with the University of La Laguna (Spain), Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic), Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal), University West (Sweden) and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences at Groningen (Netherlands)
• “Sustainable Urban Building Intervention”, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering with Maria Clarke (Architecture) and Thomas Rauscher (Civil Engineering), together with the Polytechnic Institute Bragança (Portugal) and Cracow University of Technology (Poland).
• “Embedded Systems for Mobile Robots”, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, under the responsibility of Martin Hering-Bertram and supported by Sören Peik, together with the Polytechnic Institute Bragança (Portugal) and the Hanze University of Applied Scioences (Netherlands).

In all projects, the students initially start  in online groups and work together on preparatory tasks. In the projects from the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a total of 15 students from each of the partner universities will come to Bremen for a week later in the semester to work on the practical part of their module and prepare the final presentation.

The practical part of the project of the School of International Business will take place at Groningen with the participation of a total of 25 students from the partner universities involved in these BIP.

The projects are worth six credits. Lecturers from all participating universities are involved with their own contributions and in supervising the group work.

 

With the seventh seminar by the different Thematic Interest Groups (TIG’s) in the series by the STARS EU Alliance, all TIG’s have now presented themselves and their work. On background of the TIG, activities going on and what is being planned for the future.

As almost all our activities in society today are influenced by the Digital Transformation this TIG is broad in content and offers many possibilities on knowledge creation and collaborations. Regardless of the area of interest. The seminar put forward suggestions on studies to be made as different as AI-tools to improve detection of irregularities within medicine and how to in a structured way overcome the digital literacy.

Several of other TIG’s in the STARS EU alliance participated in the seminar and lively discussions on different collaborations and joint initiatives were held.

The recording of this seminar is now available online: