News archive
18. October 2022
New STEM films in the making
On October 6-7, 2022, the partners of the international project Films4edu met at the University of Málaga to summarize the project’s achievements so far and plan the next stages of its implementation. The Foundation of Małopolska University for Children was represented by Jolanta Różowska and Krzysztof Różowski from the foundation board. We would like to […]
13. October 2022
All passengers aboard!
A final journey of the PHERECLOS crew. The “Lay of the Land” – this was the motto of the closing conference in Bucharest within the PHERECLOS Open Schooling Horizon 2020 project. You might ask yourself why we chose this idiom and what is the meaning? Well, in PHERECLOS we played a lot with analogies from […]
29. September 2022
Bucharest Conference Pictures!
Explore the photos of the joint PHERECLOS and eucu.net conference in Bucharest. Search for your colleagues of our European Children’s Universities Network the network or your own picture in the conference crowd. In case you haven’t been there – see what you missed and come to the next conference! Click here, to go directly to […]
21. June 2022
The next eucu.net conference is coming soon!
Finally, we will have our next eucu.net in-person gathering! It has been a long time since the last eucu.net meeting in real life in 2019 in Vienna – and we are very much looking forward to welcome the eucu.net members and people interested in Children’s Universities in Bucharest, the capital of Romania! From 7. to 10. […]
4. March 2022
Children’s Universities Against War!
EUCU.NET stands with the Ukrainian people in their struggle for freedom and democracy. We pay respect to all those people in the Russian Federation who oppose the criminal policies of their government. War breaks up families, threatens lives, but also interrupts educational careers and deprives of visions and dreams of the future. We will do […]
22. December 2021
There are two sides to every question
The past two Covid-19 years created huge challenges for most Children’s University programs, and unfortunately some of the projects have been even stopped – as eucu.net president Jolanta Różowska reported at least for the situation in Poland at our last eucu.net online member-meeting on the 13th December. Nonetheless the pandemic might also trigger some positive […]
7. December 2021
Who’s got content to share?
As a result of previous discussions in the last eucu.net online-meetings and the feedback from our members in the recent year, we created an online survey to explore options for additional support of the already available online activities for children. This will help us as a network to get a better overview on the situation […]
6. December 2021
films4edu – A New Database for Educational Films
Dear colleagues, despite the huge amount of educational video materials available on the internet, we quite often encounter a lack of educational materials at the appropriate level, be it substantive or didactic. I would like to share the great news that a new database of educational films is being created. They will be prepared by professionals […]
25. June 2021
EUCU.NET Board elected
The EUCU.NET Board has been (re-)elected. The delegates voted Karoline Iber, Silvia Prock and Jolanta Różowska as the three Presidents. Chris Gary and Cyril Dworsky are General Secretary and International Liaison Coordinator for the next five years. Anna Schnelzer is now the new external auditor. In the latest general assembly of EUCU.NET on the 10th […]
20. October 2020
Project Opportunity for CUs!
The Horizon 2020 EU-project PHERECLOS links Open Schooling culture with Children’s Universities experience. The goal of the project is to breakdown institutional boundaries between universities and the wider society. At the heart of PHERECLOS is the collection of case studies and the establishment of “Local Education Clusters” to link schools and further relevant actors in […]
20. June 2020
Spot light on the volunteers!
This week, Jolanta Różowska sent some lines about the final event of the current Malopolska University for Children, one of the founding institutions of eucu.net. “On Saturday, June 6, we finished the 12th academic year at the Malopolska University for Children. However, it was not a traditional celebration combined with the awarding of diplomas by invited […]
23. April 2020
First virtual CU lecture in Chrzanów
by Jolanta Różowska After a long break, on Saturday, April the 18th, the students of Malopolski University for Children from Chrzanów (Poland) took part in a lecture on forensics entitled “How do you talk to a dog? The tasks of a dog’s nose in forensics.”, which was delivered by Dr. Joanna Stojer-Polańska from the Jagiellonian […]
25. March 2020
Dealing with Corona
Children’s Universities open up the doors of universities and research organizations. But those doors are mostly closed nowadays for everybody. Not only for children but also for adult students and university staff because of the Corona virus. Consequently, many Children’s University events have been postponed. We don’t know when we will be able to gather […]
21. September 2019
Promoting sustainable wastewater treatment
Education projects on the topic of the water cycle and the supply with clean water are fortunately numerous because they are clearly of utter importance. We are happy to share new didactical material stemming from the Horizon 2020 project SuperW that was sent to eucu.net. Within the project a group of early-stage researchers developed an educational outreach […]
20. September 2019
Research until after midnight!
An important event for science engagement is coming soon: At the 27th of September 2019 the European Researchers Night will be celebrated all accross Europe and beyond. The ERN has been held since 2005 as a joint festival to bring together the scientific community with the citizens. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people gather […]
20. August 2019
Who is a member?
Now you’re listed! The first step of making our members more visible was the launch of a member map together with the design of the new eucu.net website. Looking for those organisations who are part of our network on a google map is nice but not always handy. For a quick search and overview a […]
2. July 2019
Turkish Children’s Universities on Tour
An innovative approach and pilot for models of further international cooperation and exchange is in preparation between the Turkish Children’s Universities Platform and eucu.net. During the Vienna Children’s University in July a special side programme will offer a mini science fair performed by experienced Turkish Children’s Universities delegates. The turkish colleagues created a multifarious […]
7. June 2019
Children’s Universities presented in Beijing
Silvia Prock, one of the eucu.net presidents, was invited to join a delegation of our partner network Eusea and participate at the “International Science Week – Belt & Road” last May. She featured our network and gave a well noted speech about the international dimensions of Children’s Universities. As organizer of the Junge Uni Innsbruck […]
20. May 2019
Round table on Inclusive Excellence
On the 17th January 2019 Prof. Frank Tuitt of the University of Denver gave a lecture about “Inclusive Excellence” at the Multinclude and eucu.net round table in Vienna. Further speakers were Michelle Bräuer, Mary Tupan-Wenno, Eva Vetter and Karoline Iber. A recording of the lecture and round table is available on our youtube channel.
20. May 2019
Talking about eucu.net
We proudly present our new promotional material: we invited our members parallel to our last eucu.net workshop to talk about their approach to Children’s Universities, the network and also their favorite moments during a Children’s Universities event. Check out all of our videos in our promo section and more in our testimonials section.