Aurora Opportunities

Registration link 

 

Venue: Biomedical Research Building, Faculty of Health UPEC - 8 rue du général Sarrail 94000 Créteil and online

Participants who wish to join online will receive the link to access the event after registration. 

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Summary

Why Attend?

• Cutting-Edge Science: Dive deep into the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving senescence and ageing, including epigenetic clocks, mitochondrial dynamics, and immune system interactions.
• Innovative Technologies: Discover how spatial multiomics, big data analytics, and precision epigenetic editing are revolutionising ageing research.
• Translational Insights: Explore therapeutic strategies targeting senescent cells, including senolytic co-targeting in cancer and cardiac ageing, and immune-mediated clearance approaches.
• Systems and Public Health Perspectives: Understand how integrative models and public strategies can inform interventions to slow ageing at the organismal and population levels.
• Networking and Collaboration: Connect with top scientists, clinicians, and policymakers. Participate in panel discussions and roundtables focused on the future of ageing research.
• Emerging Talent Spotlight: Engage with tomorrow’s leaders during flash talk sessions showcasing innovative early-career research.

 

Featured Sessions Include:

• Cellular Senescence as a Systems-Level Driver of Ageing and Disease
• Multiscale Discovery Platforms: From Natural Products to Spatial Omics
• Quantifying and Reprogramming Ageing: Big Data and Epigenetic Clocks
• Therapeutic Targeting of Senescence: Organ Interfaces and Immune Surveillance
• From Cellular Ageing to Public Health: Integrative Approaches to Slow Senescence

 

Keynote Speaker

Clemens Schmitt — Pioneer in senotherapies co-targeting cancer and aging.

 

Headlines to Mindset: Shaping Public Opinion - 6 ECTS Virtual Course at VU Amsterdam

In most political systems, citizens have little direct contact with their representatives. Instead, politicians operate in a highly mediatised environment, where the media serve as the main source of political information. Political communication research explores how politics is represented in the media. For example: How do people seek out political information, and how has this changed in the digital era? How do they learn from political news, and when does ideology shape this process? Do media, for instance, fuel polarisation?

This course focuses on the impact of political information on public opinion and behaviour. Students explore key questions in political communication through both theoretical and practical lenses. Please refer to the Aurora Course Catalogue for more information.

Interested students can send an e-mail to shortmobility@vu.nl with the following details:

1. Name,
2. home university,
3. current Master programme and
4. obtained Bachelor degree.

The target group is Master’s students in Social Sciences. However, students outside this field of study are welcome to apply with an additional short motivation letter.

 

Start date: 27 October 2025

End date: 12 December 2025

Study level: Master's students

Language level: English C1

Join us on 15 October 2025 for a transformative event to learn how VU Amsterdam’s A Broader Mind Course prepares young students to begin understanding complex societal issues.

This event offers Aurora partners a unique opportunity to explore our innovative approach to interdisciplinary education as initiated by Prof. Govert Buis. The course challenges early-stage students to think beyond their primary discipline, guided by more advanced peers. Through diverse academic perspectives, students develop a holistic understanding of complex societal issues: a mindset they'll carry throughout their academic journey. Discover how this course can transform your institution by making teaching more engaging , curricula more relevant, and your societal impact more profound.

Programme

• 09:30 – Doors open and coffee
• 10:00 – Introduction to the A Broader Mind Course
• 11:00 – Hands-on: a concrete assignment for participants to work on
• 12:30 – Break
• 13:30 – Ideation to turn A Broader Mind into a true Aurora Course (in groups)
• 14:00 – Plenary feedback from the groups
• 14:30 – Reflection on the day and wrap up
• 15:00 – Drinks and end at 16:00 hours

Registration

• You can register at https://forms.office.com/e/HytCZ96Faj

This event is organised by TT.2.2. Digital Society and Global Citizenship. You can join us either at the VU Amsterdam Education Lab, or online.

Join us on 15 October 2025 for a transformative event to learn how VU Amsterdam’s A Broader Mind Course prepares young students to begin understanding complex societal issues.

This event offers Aurora partners a unique opportunity to explore our innovative approach to interdisciplinary education as initiated by Prof. Govert Buis. The course challenges early-stage students to think beyond their primary discipline, guided by more advanced peers. Through diverse academic perspectives, students develop a holistic understanding of complex societal issues: a mindset they'll carry throughout their academic journey. Discover how this course can transform your institution by making teaching more engaging , curricula more relevant, and your societal impact more profound.

Programme

• 09:30 – Doors open and coffee
• 10:00 – Introduction to the A Broader Mind Course
• 11:00 – Hands-on: a concrete assignment for participants to work on
• 12:30 – Break
• 13:30 – Ideation to turn A Broader Mind into a true Aurora Course (in groups)
• 14:00 – Plenary feedback from the groups
• 14:30 – Reflection on the day and wrap up
• 15:00 – Drinks and end at 16:00 hours

Registration

• You can register at https://forms.office.com/e/HytCZ96Faj

This event is organised by TT.2.2. Digital Society and Global Citizenship. You can join us either at the VU Amsterdam Education Lab, or online.

On 29 and 30 September 2025, the Aurora international academic conference “DUAL – Dichotomies in Urban Agendas and Logics“, an event promoted within the framework of the European Universities Initiative programme Aurora 2030, will be held at the Department of Humanities of the Università Federico II of Naples (UNINA), Italy.

An activity organised within the Aurora educational hub Cultures: Identities and Diversities, the conference is a continuation of the course Challenges in Europe that took place between April and June 2025 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It stems from the successful collaboration between the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and UNINA.

The conference aims to continue to reflect critically and transdisciplinarily on the theme of the city and urban space, exploring the multiple dichotomies that cut across its material, social, political and symbolic dimensions. Centre/periphery, inclusion/exclusion, mobility/immobility, visibility/invisibility, are just some of the dichotomies that can be used as a tool to critically read the past, understand the challenges of the present and imagine a new future for our cities.

The conference is a moment of dialogue between different approaches to the study of the city, welcoming contributions from fields such as Urban Studies, Architecture, Sociology, Geography, Philosophy, History, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Arts, Design, Media and Communication, Digital Humanities and many others.

Click here for further information and abstract submission.

The University of Iceland will offer an Erasmus+ BIP course on the LOUIS Competence Framework in Autumn 2025. The course is open to academic teaching staff responsible for delivering courses/modules and PhD students and will award 3 ECTS credits. 

The physical mobility will be held from 20 to 24 October 2025, and the virtual components will take place before and after the on-site session. 

All interested participants can apply through our application portal using their home university credentials: https://ugla.hi.is/courses/open. The application deadline is 15 August 2025.

The following documents must be attached to the application:

• A copy of their passport information page or a copy of their travel ID
• Phd students: A transcript of records or official letter confirming that they are registered in a PhD programme
• Academic staff: An official letter confirming that they are academic teaching staff responsible for delivering a course/module at their home institution

Further information can be found in our course catalogue or by email aurora@hi.is.