Event date: September 2, 2025
Event time: 10:00 - 12:00 CEST
Location: Online to be accessed via the EARMA website
Registration: This event is free of charge, but as with all our events, registration is required. Just click on the yellow button at the top of this page and see here how to access the event.
Event Description
The portfolio of funding opportunities to develop the R&I dimension of European University Alliances is currently very narrow. As the only dedicated call for this purpose, the European Excellence Initiative (EEI) stands out; and the last EEI call published as part of the Horizon Europe programme will be closing in November 2025. Yet, the EEI comes with some pitfalls. It is part of the Widening section of Horizon Europe, focused on supporting countries performing less in terms of R&I. And the funding comes as a Coordination and Support Action, with limited allowance for the actual R&I activities. In the webinar of the EUI Thematic Group of EARMA, we will share and discuss how the alliances successful in previous EEI call have overcome the challenges and how the EEI projects fuel their R&I integration.
More about the European Universities Initiative (EUI) Thematic Group can be found here.
Programme Points
- Introduction to the European Excellence Initiative call in Horizon Europe;
- Presentations of three EEI projects: EDUC-WIDE (EDUC), Unite! Widening (Unite!), WIRE (FilmEU);
Target audience
RMAs involved in European University Alliances.
Speakers
Iva Sedláková, PhD, is the project manager of EDUC-WIDE. She earned her Ph.D. in Geoscience from Masaryk University, where she began her academic and professional career. Over the last eight years, she has shifted her focus to research management, applying her scientific background to successfully lead and implement a variety of grant-funded projects. In her current role, she is responsible for guiding EDUC-WIDE toward its goals while maintaining the project’s unique identity. At the same time, she ensures alignment with the broader strategic objectives of the EDUC alliance. Her leadership is central to preserving the project's vision and fostering meaningful collaboration across the alliance.
Ladislav Čoček is a senior project manager working for the Grant Office at MUNI Headquarters. He served as a pre- and post-award manager on EU funded projects (FP7, H2020, European Structural and Investment Funds – ESIF) for a regional development agency, private consultancy, and since 2013 MUNI. In 2016-2019 he was the Head of the Grant Office at CEITEC Masaryk University. Ladislav has been involved in several international knowledge sharing platforms in the area of research management, e.g. the Grants and Funding Strategies Working Group of EU-LIFE or Grants and Research Funding Focus Group of Alliance4Life. Currently, he is the thematic coordinator of CZARMA for the Project agenda and chairs the EUI Thematic Group in EARMA. He contributed to and developed research-oriented projects of the EDUC university alliance – EDUC-SHARE and EDUC-WIDE.
Rui Mendes is Director of International Affairs at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, University of Lisbon) and a member of the Cascais Municipal Parliament, where he chairs the Commission of Health, Social, and Labour Affairs. He is also President of a Parents Association, General Administrator of the NGO O Companheiro, and serves in several international leadership roles, including Deputy Vice President of the T.I.M.E. Association and Steering Committee member of the Magalhães Network. Rui has coordinated or contributed to over 30 European projects (Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, etc.) and held previous roles as IST’s HR Director, International Affairs Coordinator, and member of key institutional bodies. He is active in international networks like CESAER and CLUSTER, regularly presenting at global conferences (EAIE, SEFI, FAUBAI, ESOF). Rui holds degrees in Sociology and Statistics and is an experienced trainer in SPSS and survey methodologies, with a background in consulting and teaching.
Dr Martina Mullaney is the research Co-Ordinator for WIRE by FilmEU, European University at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland. Formally the Irish Post Doc. Researcher for the joint funded Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)/Irish Research Council Feminist Art Making Histories Project. She is a practicing artist and academic with an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and AHRC-funded Ph.D. from the University of Reading. Her research asks ‘How art on and of maternity can transcend its own audience? She convened The Missing Mother Conference in 2021, and co-edited with professor Andrea O'Reilly The Missing Mother anthology with Demeter Press, York University, Toronto, Canada. She is a recipient of the Red Mansion Art Prize, London, and China, she has been artist in residence with BALENCIAGA, Paris, The British Council in Sri Lanka, and Tbilisi, Georgia, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin. Her work has shown at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, Franekel Gallery, San Francisco, Artwall Gallery, Prague and Cork Film Center, Ireland. She founded Enemies of Good Art in London after the birth of her child. Events took place at; Tate Modern, the ICA, Southbank Centre and Chisenhale Gallery. Tranzit Display Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic and Galerija Nova, Zagreb in 2015. She produced and presented Enemies of God Art for broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, London, the only U.K. Arts Council Funded public radio.
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