YUFE Academy
The YUFE Academy is a sequence of lectures, workshops and activities travelling along the YUFE campi on “Citizens wellbeing”, YUFE’s second focus area, which will give interested students, staff and citizens a “feel” of YUFE. It is a platform aimed at strengthening European identity, raising awareness about social issues, providing solutions to global and local challenges, and making a true impact on Citizens’ wellbeing.
All lectures and other activities together cultivate into a programme one could follow entirely or only some parts of. All these little building blocks together make the YUFE Academy, a beneficial gathering and learning experience for YUFE students, staff and citizens.

What to expect?
- Lectures and other activities in English and other European languages, so that everyone can follow the activities in either their mother tongue or a second language – this multilingual approach makes YUFE Academy more inclusive and accessible to partner cities’ population;
- YUFE D&I Lecture Series – a lecture series promoting and celebrating D&I education and engagement across the YUFE community and what D&I can look like in practice;
- Entrepreneurial talk shows – workshops in which an entrepreneurial mindset are promoted through the experience and advice of an expert in a specific area of the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp);
- Series of lectures and activities focusing on the employees’ well-being;
- Workshops, trainings, and spring/summer schools directed to universities’ (prospective) research staff and to professional service staff;
- Lectures concerning various topics relevant to the community.
How to attend?
Follow the registration link to the event you would like to attend. The format for the YUFE Academy is blended: due to the COVID-19 pandemic most lectures, workshops and other activities will take place virtually. Some events will attempt to take place physically.
Upcoming Lectures & Activities
Roundtable Discussion Uni Antwerpen & Uni Bremen “Decolonise the Curricula”
YUFE D&I
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker Uni Utrecht
Abstract: The processes of European colonization and its subsequent effects and influences upon academia will be explored and discussed in this public online event. This roundtable aims to examine and determine what ressources and structures are necessary for the decolonization process of university curricula within the YUFE network to begin.
Target audience: All students from the YUFE network and beyond
Date and Time (CET): 31 May 2022, 14:00-15:30
Language: English
Registration due date: 30 May 2022 23:59
Register for this event through this link ›
Creativity
Entrepreuneurial Talk Show
Speaker: University of Cyprus
Abstract: tbc
Target audience: Open to all
Date and Time (CET): May 2022
All YUFE Academy Lectures & Activities
Date | Lecture | Type of Lecture |
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14 June 2021, 10:00 – 12:00 CET | Motivation and persistence in achieving goals | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
24 June 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 CET | Certification and accreditation schemes for Gender Equality in Higher Education: the CASPER Project | D& Lecture Series |
13 July 2021, 13:00 – 15:00 CET | Univerzalni dizajn | YUFE Academy |
14 July 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 CET | Six Key Traits for a Powerful Business Vision | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
20 September 2021, 16:00 – 18:15 CET | The Great Lockdown and the Sustainability of the European Socioeconomic Project | YUFE Academy |
21 September 2021, 16:00 – 18:00 CET | Citizen Participation in Co-constructing Narratives on European Heritage | YUFE Academy |
22 September 2021, 16:00 – 18:00 CET | Executive Federalism and Politicisation in the European Union Before and During Covid-19 | YUFE Academy |
23 September 2021, 16:00 – 18:00 CET | Introduction to Immigration, Intra-EU Mobility, and the Welfare State | YUFE Academy |
24 September 2021, 16:00 – 18:15 CET | Wicked problems, origins, and governance approaches needed to move towards a sustainable society | YUFE Academy |
24 September 2021, 10:00 – 12:00 CET | Prioritise, organise and follow-up | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
29 September 2021, 08:00 – 10:00 CET | Success story of the Finnish school lunch | YUFE Academy |
4 October 2021, 15:00 – 17:00 CET | Il ruolo della scienza nella società e cultura moderna con un approfondimento sulla teoria dei numeri verso la crittologia | YUFE Academy |
5 October 2021, 11:00 – 14:00 CET | Rencontres et dialogue interculturels en Europe au XVIIIe siècle | YUFE Academy |
5 October 2021, 13:00 – 14:30 CET | Paradoxes of Anthropocene | YUFE Academy |
7 October 2021, 11:00 – 13:00 CET | Servitization – transforming products (and resources) into services | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
12 October 2021, 17:00 – 18:30 CET | Marihuana, kannabinoidy i inne substancje psychoaktywne w świetle współczesnej medycyny. Fakty i mity | YUFE Academy |
14 October 2021, 16:00 – 18:00 CET | Technological solutions and innovation as ‘key enabler’ for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals | YUFE Academy |
20 October 2021, 17:00 – 19:00 CET | Food for you (F4u): sustainable diet and precision nutrition for the well-being, prevention of chronic degenerative diseases and COVID-19 | YUFE Academy |
26 October 2021, 09:30 – 10:30 CET | Targeting Focal Adhesion Kinase in anti-metastatic erapies | YUFE Academy |
28 October 2021, 13:00 – 15:00 CET | Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
28 October 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 CET | Mindfulness and Wellbeing | YUFE Academy |
2 November 2021, 16:00 – 17:30 CET | Promoting mental wellbeing of citizens. Can digital solutions help? | YUFE Academy |
4 November 2021, 14:00 – 15:30 CET | Movie discussion: Picture a Scientist | D&I Lecture |
8-10 November 2021, 10:00 – 15:00 CET | What about a PhD at YUFE? | YUFE Staff Academy |
19 November 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 CET | Covid 19 pandemic and discriminations: the Council of Europe’s Guidelines on upholding equality and protecting against discrimination and hate during the Covid-19 pandemic and similar crises in the future | D&I Lecture |
24 November 2021, 11:00 – 12:30 CET | Assessing Well-being | YUFE Academy |
25 November 2021, 16:00 – 17:30 CET | Wie kann „wellbeing“ in der ökonomischen Analyse adäquat betrachtet werden? Eine Einführung in welfaristische vs. extra-welfaristische Ökonomik. | YUFE Academy |
30 November 2021, 09:00 – 11:00 CET | Defining hate speech, counteracting hate speech. | YUFE Academy |
1 December 2021, 10:00 – 10:30 CET | Making Antwerp University an attractive place to work | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 11:00 – 12:00 CET | Measuring wellbeing | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 12:00 – 12:30 CET | Well-being of students, Ph.D. students and employees of NCU in Poland and supporting them by University Centre for Support and Personal Development. | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 13:00- 13:30 CET | Multi-location work at the Univeristy of Eastern Finland | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 CET | Supporting early career researchers on the institute level – before, during and after the pandemic. Examples from a research faculty at the University of Bremen | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 13:00 – 14:30 CET | How we work at Essex: developing people to support the delivery of our strategic ambitions | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 CET | Mindfulness at Work: Wellbeing of Employees | YUFE Staff Academy |
1 December 2021, 16:30 – 17:30 CET | Recovery workshop | YUFE Staff Academy |
2 December 2021, 10:00 – 10:45 CET | Mental Health Strategies for Employees | YUFE Staff Academy |
2 December 2021, 12:00 – 13:00 CET | Workers’ health in the third millennium | YUFE Staff Academy |
2 December 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 CET | Practices that promote work-life balance | YUFE Staff Academy |
3 December 2021, 13:00 – 14:30 CET | Employee Wellbeing Roundtable | YUFE Staff Academy |
10 December 2021, 14:00 – 16:00 CET | Cities of Wellbeing | YUFE Academy |
13 December 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 CET | Knowledge production and Eurocentrism | D&I Lecture |
15 December 2021, 11:00 – 12:00 CET | Midiendo el Bienestar | YUFE Academy |
December 2021 | Financial and economic literacy | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
19 January 2022, 13:00 CET | Craving life: Managing craving oughts and addictive behaviors | YUFE Academy |
19 January 2022, 13:00 CET | Craving life: Managing craving oughts and addictive behaviors | YUFE Academy |
20 January 2022, 10:00 CET | Antiracism at Colleges and Universities | D&I Lecture |
25 January 2022, 10:00 CET | Fat Hate, Discrimination Against Fat People | D&I Lecture |
25 January 2022, 15:00 CET | Covid 19 pandemic and discriminations: the Council of Europe’s Guidelines on upholding equality and protecting against discrimination and hate during the Covid-19 pandemic and similar crises in the future | D&I Lecture |
27 January 2022, 10:00 CET | The Intersections of Racism and Ableism | D&I Lecture |
11 February 2022, 10:00 CET | Sexual & Gender Diversity | D&I Lecture |
25 February 2022, 11:00 – 12:00 CET | What biobanking is all about? Why investing in biobanking is investment in healier societies? | YUFE Academy |
February 2022 | Learning through experience | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
March 2022 | Valuing ideas | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
28 April – 29 April 2022 | What about a PhD at YUFE? (part II) | YUFE Academy |
April 2022 | Ethical and sustainable thinking | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |
May 2022 | Creativity | Entrepreuneurial Talk Show |