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Get prepared for the 5th Unite! Dialogue

With March approaching, so is the 5th Unite! Dialogue , New Horizons. For the first time, the Horizon 2020 project community will also attend a Unite! Dialogue in the perspective of a further integration of all the components of the Alliance.

The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) will host the next Unite! Dialogue under the title New Horizons, which will take place in two parts: first in March (online event) and in June (face-to-face event). The aim was to meet in person in Stockholm in March, but the often rapid and abrupt changes the pandemic has brought, means that adjustments had to be made. The 5th Dialogue will therefore be split into two parts (March and June). This will allow for discussions to continue and decisions to be made in a timely manner whilst ensuring the safety and well-being of everyone involved.

8th – 10th March: Online event. Part one is a digital event that will take place on the 8th – 10th March. This event will include sessions for Unite!'s Governing Platform, Unite!'s Academic Forum, H2020 Plenary session and H2020 General Assembly Meeting.

Everyone in the Unite! community is welcome to attend both the Unite! Dialogue Plenary Session on the 9th March 10:00–12:00 and the H2020 Plenary Session on the 10th March 09:00–11:30 (CET). Both sessions will focus on current developments of Unite! and will be broadcasted online via Zoom, you can already register for both Unite! open sessions.

13th–15th June: On-site event. Part two will be an on-site Unite! Summer Community event in Stockholm on the 13th–15th June focused on giving the E+ Task Forces and H2020 Work Packages a chance to meet and discuss the latest developments. A preliminary programme and registration information will be available after the March event.

The Unite! Dialogues
Unite! Dialogues are the key format to raise the visibility of Unite! in the member universities and their ecosystems and to disseminate the Unite! vision among university staff and students. Unite! Dialogues are open to all members of the Unite! partner universities. Reports, debates, reviews and future strategies are transparent to the entire Unite! community and involve its members actively.

So far, the Unite! community has been able to organise and attend four Dialogues:

11th -14th February 2020, Espoo-Helsinki/Finland, hosted by Aalto University
30th September 2020, Lisboa, hosted by Universidade de Lisboa
8th -10th March 2021, Grenoble, hosted by Grenoble INP in France (Rhone Alpes)
29th,30th November and 1st December 2021, Barcelona, hosted by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)