In another challenging year since beginning of the pandemic, UnILiON continued its successful collaboration among the universities’ liaison offices in Brussels.
The Core had 9 meetings during the year. In line with the recommendations on social distancing, 2 of these were held in physical format, allowing members to come together and enjoy the spirit of the personal conversations again. Our members had fruitful discussions to help our organisations prepare for the new Horizon Europe programme. We organised 7 Open Talk events about the most relevant topics in Brussels for interested colleagues and researchers.
The 5 thematically running working groups met 15 times in 2021. During these meetings we listened to excellent presentations and received first-hand information about the new initiatives and programmes from the representatives of the European institutions.
Building on the successful experience of the previous year, we organised a brokerage event for the new European University Alliances call to create opportunities for collaboration among our universities.
The network is constantly growing, in 2021 we welcomed the following institutions and their Brussels offices among our members:
- University of Turin
- University of Zagreb
- Politecnico di Torino
- ISG | Business & Economics School