EUTOPIA Launches the Third Round of 10 New Connected Communities

On April 23, 2025, the EUTOPIA partner universities, represented by the highest authorities in Education, Research and Internationalisation, selected the third round of 10 Connected Communities (CCs)!

The Integrated Connected Communities are the building blocks of the approach for empowering knowledge in EUTOPIA MORE, inspired by the outcomes of the Connected Learning Communities (CLC) and Connected Research Communities (CRC). Aligned with the EUTOPIA alliance vision on openness, they aim to bridge the typical divides that still characterise academia: Connecting academia and society, Teaching and Research in cross-campus formats, and Inclusion.
 
Led by permanent staff members in one of the alliance universities who are willing and motivated to reach out to colleagues working on similar topics in and beyond the EUTOPIA alliance, they aim to strengthen existing good practices in challenge-based learning and research by creating inter-university connectedness and cooperating in knowledge activities across campuses and beyond with societal actors.

The 10 new CCs join and complement the ongoing communities to date, covering a wide range of thematic and disciplines:

• Democratic Citizenship in Post-Truth Societies
• Reverse Engineering and Digital Imaging
• Innovations for Sustainable Construction
• Biomineralization in Medicine, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage
• Age-friendly Community 5.0
• Supporting Education, Employability, and Development of PhD candidates
• Digital Initiatives in Society
• Untited Minds: A Connected Approach to Trauma, Resilience and Mental Health
• Legal Challenges and Solutions for Mobile Individuals and a Changing World of Work
• Habitat of Planetary Ecologies for Sustainable Futures

More details to come on each CC (stay tuned for their web pages for further updates!).