EELISA Opportunities 2026
Dear FAU researchers,
Dear FAU students,
We would like to draw your attention to the opportunities offered by EELISA, FAU’s European University Alliance. EELISA connects ten partner institutions across Europe, covering a wide range of disciplines – from engineering and natural sciences to humanities, social sciences, law, economics, and medicine.
Opportunities for researchers:
Host a workshop, conference, or retreat with at least one colleague from an EELISA partner institution and receive up to €6,000 in funding (for catering, room rental, and workshop materials). The call is open year-round for FAU researchers at all career levels.
https://www.eelisa.fau.de/call-for-eelisa-research-retreats/
Apply for up to €12,000 to organize inter-institutional, innovative educational activities (e.g. lecture series, summer schools, hackathons) aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Topic 1 encourages educational activities within the EELISA Alliance. The deadline is 15 March 2026.
https://eelisa.eu/7-joint-call/
Opportunities for students:
EELISA Scientific Student Competition
21-22.05.2026 at the Polytechnical University Madrid / UPM.
Apply for this two day event open to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from the EELISA alliance. Embrace the opportunity to improve your scientific writing skills, present your research and exchange ideas with your peers and with experts. Subject areas include engineering, natural sciences, economics, and social sciences.
Application deadline: 28 February 2026.
https://eelisa.eu/events/4th-eelisa-ssc/
Feel like developing and implementing a student-led training? Apply for up to €12,000 to organize inter-institutional and innovative activities – can be projects, or events, or peer-to-peer learning activities, or science communication projects (e.g. podcasts, public lectures, exhibitions, student research days, co-creation formats with external partners…). You will need members from at least 3 different EELISA partners.
The deadline is 15 March 2026.
https://eelisa.eu/7-joint-call/
Please reach out to eelisa@fau.de if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Your FAU EELISA Team