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Prof Dr Jens Liebehenschel combines several goals in his innovation professorship: Together with Master’s students from Frankfurt UAS and HOGENT, he is developing a computer science learning tool over the course of several semesters. He combines this practical task with the supervision of Bachelor students. While he slips into the customer role for the learning tool and thus drives the project forward, the Master’s students gain their first valuable teaching experience.

The presidents and rectors of the U!REKA universities met in Vienna on 10 and 11 March. The meeting was hosted by the UAS BFI Vienna, which is an associated partner in the U!REKA network. Managing Director Eva Schiessl-Foggensteiner explains in an interview why the university is involved in U!REKA and what opportunities she sees in international cooperation.

At the beginning of February 2025, Frankfurt UAS scientists welcomed Prof Dr Petr Machník, professor of Computer Science at the Technická univerzita Ostrava. The aim of his visit in Frankfurt was to explore possible areas of cooperation and to delve deeper into the planning of a U!REKA summer school.

U!REKA European University is launching the Staff Training Programme, a set of training sessions for and by partner institutions. The training sessions focus on three competence clusters: digital, green and … Read more

You still don’t know what to imagine by the term U!REKA and what the membership in the alliance will bring?

As part of U!REKA, Frankfurt UAS has established four innovation professorships focussing on strategically important projects. The selected professors are allowed to reduce their teaching load by six semester hours for two years in order to focus on international research topics or cross-university projects. One of them is Prof. Dr. Raul Gschrey.

U!REKA European University has a new website. This was needed to adequately reflect and communicate the increased activity within U!REKA. Remarkably, the new website was developed by students from Finnish U!REKA partner Metropolia, who are doing an internship at Valovirta, a spin-off company of the Finnish university of applied sciences.

We started the year with a special guest. On 6 January, AUAS had the honour to host Petr Blížkovský, Secretary General of the Committee of the Regions. His visit underscored the role of applied sciences universities in addressing urban challenges and advancing Europe’s sustainability goals.

UrbanCircular Hack(athon) at Frankfurt UAS took place in November. The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences hosted the first UrbanCircular Hack(athon) on 13 and 14 November 2024. As part of the European University Alliance U!REKA, around 30 students from Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Lisbon tested an innovative format that not only promoted creativity but also a sense of community.

From 3 to 5 December, the U!REKA Research Days took place at HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Researchers from the U!REKA partners spent three days together to get to know each other’s expertise and research background, discuss common interests and research themes, and thus lay the foundations for possible future research initiatives.