Apply by: 9 July 2025
The 4EU+ 1CORE educational activity FEEDING THE PLANET – Shaping a Sustainable Future will bring together students, researchers and professors from 4EU+ Alliance’s universities to discuss the issues of food sustainability and related policies, building on the student-centred, research-based educational approach developed within the 4EU+ 1CORE project (One Comprehensive Research-Intensive European University), as part of the Erasmus+ funded European Universities Initiative.
This educational and student-engagement opportunity is organised in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, 4EU+ associated partner, in the context of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) Global Forum, which will take place in Milan in mid-October on the 10° anniversary of the pact’s signature.
If selected, you will participate in online workshops with academics and food policy experts from municipalities, work online in international groups and meet for a two-day on-site workshop and event at the University of Milan (16-17 October 2025). In the 4EU+ 1CORE Dissemination event, you will get the chance to present your workgroup and ideas in the presence of Municipalities' representatives involved in the MUFFP Global Forum.
The educational activity is addressed to students enrolled in all levels of university education: bachelor’s, master’s and Phd programmes. Applicants must be regularly enrolled in one of the 4EU+ Alliance member Universities until the end of the educational activity (October 2025).
Applicants must be strongly interested in the topics of food sustainability and willing to engage in an interdisciplinary conversation on the policies that will shape the future of urban food systems.
The activities will take place in September and October 2025 and will be structured as follows:
Taking place during the period 22 September 2025 – 12 October 2025.
Plenary: 3 online seminars, 3 hrs each (total 9 teaching hrs) introducing the methodology and the topic of urban food policies in European and international contexts.
Online workshops on food policies with Students divided in two groups:
a) Food production and supply in a global perspective,
b) Diet and Nutrition in urban ecosystems.
Workgroups meet online in two meetings coached by tutors, in which they prepare their presentations for the Dissemination event.
Taking place on 16-17 October 2025.
Participants will participate in a final workshop on 16 October, a field trip on the morning of 17 October and in the 4EU+ 1CORE Dissemination Event on the afternoon of 17 October.
The results of these activities will be presented during the dissemination event held at the University of Milan on 17 October 2025, framed in the context of the activities and achievements of the 1CORE project, with a strong emphasis on the project’s aim to consolidate the Alliance’s student-centred, challenge-based educational offer.
Apply by 9 July 2025 using the form you will find here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7161ExhwdEaj18wNsG1UXIYEjjmB0_VGlzppv377UylUMjJUMjRaOUZOWUxKNjBLN0Y5UjhYWEEySS4u
In the form, you will be asked to answer four questions about your experience and motivation concerning the topics related to the 4EU+ 1CORE educational activity and Dissemination Event Feeding the Planet – Shaping a sustainable Future.
Up to 50 students from 4EU+ Universities can be selected.
Candidates will be evaluated according to the following:
Up to 5 points for each of the questions 9 to 12 of the call for participation’s form, assessing the motivation and preparation of the applicants.
English language proficiency: 3 points for C2 level, 2 points for C1 level, 1 point for B2 level.
The selection will be carried out by each University for their students. The selection process will take in consideration the need to select a diverse and balanced group of students and Phd students based on subject, interests and level of study.
Selected candidates will be informed by email.
1CORE mobility grants supporting travel and accommodation expenses will be provided by the students’ home University (2-3 students per university). Please note, however, that the following categories of students cannot receive 4EU+ 1CORE mobility grants for this initiative:
Students enrolled at the University of Milan, regardless of their location of residence, since the on-site activities are taking place at the University of Milan – mobility grants can be awarded only to travel from the home University to another 4EU+ University.
Recipients of any EU grant for stays abroad (such as Erasmus+) at the time of the physical mobility (16-17 October 2025) cannot benefit from 4EU+ 1CORE mobility grants – if you are already recipient of a EU-funded grant during this period and you wish to participate in the Feeding the Planet educational activity, you may get in touch with your 4EU+ local office to check if other funding is available.
For further information, the candidates should contact [e-mail]
Pursuant to EU Regulation 2016/679 ("General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR") and Legislative Decree no. 196/2003, as amended and supplemented, the University undertakes to keep the information provided by the applicant confidential. All data will be processed only for the purposes of participation in the programme. Information on the enforcement of the GDPR is available on the University website at http://www.unimi.it/ateneo/73613.htm - pathway: www.unimi.it > University > Privacy.