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Submit your ideas to the Unite! Widening Training Series for Researchers

Unite!Widening invites staff, faculty and researchers from Aalto to help design a new, hands-on training series for researchers. Share your expertise, build cross-university collaborations, and support researchers at all career stages. Proposal deadline: 2 February 2026.

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The Widening Training Series for Researchers is a joint Unite!Widening initiative that aims to strengthen skills, knowledge, and collaboration across the Unite! alliance. 

The call is open to motivated trainers to design and deliver engaging sessions that address real challenges faced by researchers at all career stages, from early to late career. 

Focus areas

The Training Series is anchored in Unite!Widening’s four scientific focus areas. 

  • Health & Biotech
  • Urban & Resources Sustainability
  • Circular Economy & Materials
  • Digital & Autonomous Technologies

Training proposals that use concrete examples, data or cases are particularly welcome.

What kind of sessions can you propose?

The target audience for the Training Series is researchers at all career stages. The organisers are especially interested in the following session formats:

  • Workshops with exercises and tools (templates, canvases, checklists)
  • Case-based sessions using real examples from your institution
  • Clinics where participants work on their own situations (e.g., supervision challenges, mobility cases, collaboration ideas)
  • Peer exchange formats (roundtables, good practice exchanges, role-playing)
     

Each proposed session should be 3–6 hours (half or full day). Sessions may be co-designed and co-taught by trainers from different universities.

What’s in it for you?

  • Travel and accommodation costs covered by Unite!Widening
  • Opportunities to expand your professional network across nine universities
  • A chance to share your expertise and contribute to the growth of the research community
  • Support from the Widening team in session design (slides, structure, templates, hand-outs) and on-site organisation


For more details and application procedures, visit the Unite!Widening official call page 

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