The INGENIUM Student Partnerships are strengthening collaboration among students across the Alliance
Through the INGENIUM Student Partnerships Call launched in April 2025, 11 winning Student Projects have been awarded financing to transform their inspiring ideas into reality and contribute to the strengthening of the INGENIUM European Campus.
Inspired by the “seed funding” models of many European University alliances, the INGENIUM European University introduced this initiative to encourage collaboration among students from its 10 partner universities. The call aims to build a cohesive inter-university campus by supporting student-driven projects that align with INGENIUM’s priorities, such as sustainability, inclusivity, and entrepreneurship.
A rising interest across the INGENIUM Student Community
Launched in April 2025, the call offered up to €10,000 per project to support innovative, collaborative initiatives by students and student associations. Proposals were invited in areas including inclusivity, sustainable development, student mobility, intercultural learning, healthy campus initiatives, and student entrepreneurship.
The initial expression of interest phase attracted 118 applications from across the Alliance, reflecting significant student enthusiasm. This stage enabled students to connect with peers, fostering partnerships to develop robust project proposals.
Building on the complementarity of students’s skills and study domains
As a result, the final partnership applications looked extremely promising, and they were linked to many of the INGENIUM priority areas: sustainability, entrepreneurship, wellbeing, intercultural dialogue, and much more. What’s more, they were built on the complementarity of profiles of INGENIUM partner institutions, showing that students fully grasp the added value that INGENIUM as an alliance can provide.
Reviewers assessed proposals based on relevance, quality, and potential impact, selecting 11 outstanding projects for funding. These projects are now in the implementation phase, and some of the students already had the opportunity to meet in person to work on their projects.
This edition of INGENIUM Student Partnerships is expected to conclude the projects by the end of 2025.
Discover the Winning Projects
Explore all the winning projects showcased bellow, and stay tuned as they continue to evolve, make strides, and contribute to the future of the INGENIUM Alliance.
INGENIUM Chill Spaces
This project creates calming spaces with biophilic elements, such as plants, to enhance student mental health across INGENIUM campuses. It includes an online wellbeing platform with a website and social media to promote stress relief and mental health support.
INGENIUM Founders Hub
This initiative lays the foundation for a cross-campus entrepreneurship network, connecting entrepreneurial students to demonstrate demand and build a sustainable platform for future growth.
Speaking from the Heart: Fostering Intercultural Learning in Secondary Education
Targeting high school students (ages 16–18), this project explores linguistic and cultural diversity through interactive activities and narratives, examining how emotions and identity shape communication across languages.
FutureProof: Youth Action for Sustainable Change
This project empowers students to lead sustainability efforts through a Student Sustainability Toolkit, an Action Plan, and a “sustainable escape room” prototype. It fosters intercultural collaboration and establishes an INGENIUM Student Sustainability Hub for ongoing idea exchange.
The Cyclops Polyphemus: A Digital Global Odyssey
This digital platform traces the intercultural evolution of the Polyphemus myth, compiling 124 variants from Oskar Hackman’s 1904 study. It features interactive mapping, storytelling elements like animations or podcasts, and accessibility for users with hearing or visual impairments.
SkillNet/IngeniuX
IngeniuX develops a digital platform for students to share knowledge, collaborate, and build study communities, promoting global engagement and active contributions to academic growth.
Financial Literacy through Gamification
This project promotes financial literacy through co-created educational games, involving university stakeholders and local high school students in training, mentoring, and gamified outreach activities.
GreenGENIUM: Turning Waste into Green Growth
This initiative implements a campus-wide composting system to transform organic waste into nutrient-rich soil for campus green spaces. It includes educational sessions and uses sensor data and AI to optimise decomposition and material sorting.
INGENIUM LEADSPACE
This blended learning programme cultivates intercultural and interdisciplinary leadership skills, equipping students to lead and collaborate effectively within the INGENIUM Alliance and beyond.
Dental Ergonomic Plate
This project designs an ergonomic dental plate to hold instruments on a dentist’s wrist, enhancing workflow efficiency. It fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and cultural exchange among students from diverse academic backgrounds.
As the INGENIUM European University approaches the final year of its initial EU-funded phase, set to conclude in December 2026, these projects will be a declaration of what our Alliance can achieve when students from our 10 partner universities unite.
