UNINOVIS NEWS
New master’s thesis delivers a tool to map data and AI competence needs across UNINOVIS
A new questionnaire helps higher education institutions find out where staff need training in data and AI. Carita Kujala’s recently published master’s thesis has produced a practical tool for identifying staff competence development needs in data literacy, data management and artificial intelligence (AI).
Shaping the future together: UNINOVIS Student Council Summit brings student voices to the forefront
From 18 to 22 October 2026, student representatives from across the UNINOVIS alliance came together at Kauno Kolegija in Lithuania for the Student Council Summit.
Erasmus Days 2026: skills for tomorrow, mobility made easy
Data is a skill, and this year’s Erasmus Days was all about skills. From 12 until 17 October, the 10th edition of the festival celebrated the Erasmus+ program under the theme “Learning and growing: skills for tomorrow”.
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Data for L.I.F.E.
Data has been called the new uranium, which can be used for better or worse. Like uranium, data is valuable and must be treated with care and diligence. This is a new opportunity for European excellence, so that current and future stakeholders can understand, use and protect data, through policy, development and business strategies.
The overall objective of UNINOVIS - Data for L.I.F.E. is to build up an alliance of eight higher education institutions, distributed all over Europe. The alliance wants to combine its expertise to strongly improve capacities and skills to understand, analyse, manage, use and safeguard data in the EU.
We are: Dedicated European Academic Partners
- • University Sorbonne - Paris Nord - France (USPN)
- • Technical University of Applied Sciences - Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany (THWS)
- • University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli - Caserta, Italy (UDCLV)
- • University of Applied Sciences - Tampere, Finland (TAMK)
- • Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution - Kaunas, Lithuania (KK)
- • University of Málaga - Spain (UMA)
- • University of Tirana - Albania (UT)
- • The Hague University of Applied Sciences - The Netherlands (THUAS)
All members of UNINOVIS are public Universities and have in common to serve public interest, and wish to offer European students, teachers, researchers, citizens, workers, companies, NGOs, public national and international institutions, a comprehensive academic network, aiming to establish a European University by the year 2027.
Collaborative activities and joint initiatives of the UNINOVIS members
- • Erasmus+ agreements and joint application for mobility projects
- • Cooperation Partnership proposals across various fields
- • Capacity Building in Higher Education initiatives
- • Horizon Europe proposals for Excellence Hubs
- • Double degree agreements between partner institutions
- • Blended Intensive Programmes and workshops
- • International delegation trips and networking events
Our Long-Term Goals
The purpose of UNINOVIS is to create a strong and durable alliance of eight European Universities, fully operational by the year 2027. We are pursuing four main goals which form the acronym L.I.F.E.
L - Lifelong learning in data
UNINOVIS aims at becoming the leading European University in learning how to understand, analyse, use, manage and safeguard data in all fields.
I - Integrate innovation ecosystems
UNINOVIS aims at becoming a lighthouse of higher education and research by stimulating modern pedagogies, innovations and partner integration.
F - Fostering green and digital transition
UNINOVIS aims at becoming a trans-European hub using smart and green digital solutions, supporting the green transition for collaborative research.
E - European Excellence
UNINOVIS aims at becoming a source of advanced Data Science competences and skills for current and future generations.
In the long run, our ambition is to work tirelessly towards these common goals and make UNINOVIS the leading European University in Data Sciences with active and dynamic innovation ecosystems.