Update 20 January: The 2026 Unite! Seed Fund call is now open! 

Read about teaching and learning and research and PhD funding here.

Read about the student call here.

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The 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 2026 call for proposals is now open. Read more here. 

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 2026 call for proposals is now open. Read more here.

Next call 

The next call for proposals runs between 20 January- 20 March 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 

Aalto contact persons:

Seed Fund for Teaching and Learning  - contact Minna-Kaarina.Forssen@aalto.fi, puh +358 50 911 5262

Seed Fund for Research and PhD - contact sven.bossuyt@aalto.fi