Unite! Seed Fund aims to stimulate and support bottom-up proposals by teachers, researchers and students for sustainable and collaborative activities. Unite! universities include: 

• Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
• Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Aalto University, Finland

Unite! supports the co-creation of e.g. joint research projects, study offers, blended intensive programmes, long-term collaborations in teaching and/or research units as well as extra-curricular or intercultural activities by students. 

There are three funding lines: 1) Teaching & Learning 2) Research & PhD and 3) Student activities.

Teaching & Learning and Research & PhD 

• Must include at least three Unite! universities
• Up to 10 000 Euros for "exploration" activities such as establishing contacts and formulating collaboration ideas
• Up to 80 000 Euros for development activities like building blended/joint courses or developing joint research proposals
• Supporting document from the dean of your school or head of unit should be attached to your application.
• The call for proposals is usually once a year. 

Student Activities

For student activities there must be students from at least two Unite! universities. The maximum amount of funding for a proposal has been 20 000 Euros. The call for proposals is usually once a year.

Next call 

The next call for proposals opens on 20 January 2026. Read more about what to expect here.

Previously funded projects 

Projects that have earlier received funding can be found on Unite!’s website here

Contact 

Unite! Key Liaison Officer at Aalto, Minna-Kaarina Forssén, tel +358 50 911 5262.