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The proposal for an Arts & Sports festival won the Unite!4Future competition

The winning team presented a proposal to strengthen students participation and cooperation across all the universities of the alliance in a form of a festival, including arts and sports activities which would allow to strengthen Unite! students' sense of belonging to a global European university.
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The winning project was the Unite! Arts & Sports festival, which was announced mid June during the Unite! Summer Community Event in Stockholm.

The Unite! Arts & Sports festival winning team, is composed by students of 4 Unite! partner universities, namely Grenoble INP-UGAUPCULisboa and KTH. The team presented a project proposal to strengthen students participation and cooperation across all the universities of the alliance in a form of a festival, including arts and sports activities which would allow to strengthen Unite! students' sense of belonging to a global European university. Here is the Unite! Arts & Sports festival project presentation:

The Unite!4Future programme's main goal is to attract the participation of students from the seven alliance partner universities with the aim of calling for creative ideas about what can be expected at a university of the future. With a competition format, in a bottom-up approach, Unite!4Future will enable student participation by presenting concrete, original and implementable ideas that bring added value for all Unite! community. The projects are non-academic, but related to all other aspects of university student experience and daily life on campus.

The winner of the Unite!4Future competition will: 
✔ Obtain support by one technical advisor to help you in order to turn your idea into an implementable project

✔ Design an implementable project plan
✔ Participate in the “Unite!4Future week” at Grenoble INP | UGA.
✔ All travel expenses included (transport, accommodation, food and activities).

✔ Become part of the Unite! new generation of European students
✔ Share experiences and multicultural values

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