GLADE is the EC2U Alliance’s Virtual Institute aimed to develop specific approaches in education, research, innovation and service transfer to the community in areas of the third UNSDG: Good Health and Well-being for All.

The Virtual Institute GLADE is the headquarter for:

• EC2U Glade Literacy LAB that encourages itinerant conferences of EC2U specialists, Summer Schools and short video trainings in the area of good health and well-being for all;
• EC2U GLADE Transformative Research HUB that initiates and supports studies, guidelines for local authorities, policy paperspolicy papers on Good Health and Well-being;
• EC2U GLADE Healthy Campus Services that focuses on a brand new approach of Health in Campuses.

The main objective of the GLADE Virtual Institute is to develop cooperation’s contexts for promoting health and well-being in the 7 EC2U universities and their cities.

Through the EC2U GLADE Literacy LAB activities, we will develop the contexts and curricula of training for prevention in health and promotion of well-being for all in the universities and in the cities.

The curricula will be framed around:

• preventive approaches in health (meanings, forms, expectations, resources, results);
• social determinants of health (endogenous and exogenous factors, individual and social),
• meanings, forms and practices of well-being (physical, mental, social, emotional, workplace, societal),
• a healthy and active lifestyle and ageing process.

GLADE half-day conferences (March – October 2022)

The GLADE Half-Day conferences are meant to strengthen the academic and professional links between researchers, teachers, and students from the 7 EC2U Universities on their closest topics.

This is an opportunity of revealing research interests, results, concerns, and proposals in the areas of Well-being on Campus and in the Cities, a Healthy Life and Ageing, Promotion of Health, studying the impact of Social determinants of Health in the cities, the role of gender in relation to these.

You’ll get the chance to connect with professionals in your field of interest, exchange research ideas and get involved in new projects. Also, don’t forget that you can apply for mobilities to prepare and participate at the GLADE conferences.

Check out the list of conferences and choose the ones that best suit your interest. Participation is free of charge and short presentations (7-10 minutes) are strongly encouraged. A room for networking will be open on the second part of each conference.

• 3 studies on lifelong well-being and healthy ageing
• 2 guidelines for local authorities
• policy papers

By means of the EC2U GLADE transformative research HUB, we will produce: studies, guidelines, public papers and policy papers on Good Health and Well Being, starting from exploratory and transformative research.

The participants will form flexible and mixed teams consisting of: Master students in Good Health and Well Being, PH.D. students in areas of Good Health and Well Being and related areas, Postgraduates, early career investigators, research and teaching staff, administrative staff from universities, academia and public authorities.

Objectives

The main objective of the GLADE Virtual Institute is to develop cooperation contexts for promoting health and well-being in the 7 EC2U universities and their cities.

Specifics objectives:

1. The beneficiaries will be able to go to EC2U universities to hold conferences on topics specific to the Glade Virtual Institute (including the half-day conferences);
2. The beneficiaries will be able to create, together with colleagues from EC2U universities, common materials (e.g short videos) on the specific GLADE topics (cf. to the list below), which will later be made available to the general public on the Glade/ EC2U website;
3. Beneficiaries will initiate joint teams to work on studies, publications, presentations at conferences, and research projects. The results can be subsequently published, presented at GLADE conferences, and proposed for financing.
4. Beneficiaries will be able to go to another EC2U university to carry out research activities and to work on projects for funding on GLADE specific topics;
5. The beneficiaries will be able to go to EC2U universities to carry out / deepen activities on peer counseling and healthy campus topics.

Profile

Applicants may be from any of the EC2U university’s staff (professors, researchers) and Ph.D students. They must be able to engage in teaching/research/administrative activities for the duration of the mobility project, and they must have a working knowledge of English or of one of the 7 languages of the EC2U universities.

 

The applicants interested in the following GLADE topics are encouraged to apply:

·         Aging (biological, socioeconomic and psychological)	·         Well-being (psychological, social, environmental, physical)
·         Gender well-being and autonomy	·         Lifelong well-being
·         Social and environmental determinants in health	·         Health and organizations (health in campus)
·         Health system management and policy ; healthy cities	·         Dependency, autonomy and smart aging
·         Silver economy	·         Mental health and cognitive issues
·         Inflammatory and chronic pathologies (prevention, diagnosis, treatment and through different lenses)	·         Viral pathologies (Covid19, economic and societal consequences, health responses to Covid)
·         Brain aging and mental health	·         Non-communicable diseases
·         Cancer (prevention, prognosis, treatment, social determinants)	·         Cellular and molecular basis of Angiogenesis
·         Lifestyle (nutrition, exercise, nutrition, wearables)	·         Promotion of Health (psychological, social, environmental, physical)
·         Online peer counselling for students of all ages

How to apply

Projects proposals can be continuously submitted to your local GLADE representative until 30th of April 2023.

• If you are from the University of Jena, click here to submit a proposal
• If you are from the University of Iasi, click here to submit a proposal
• If you are from the University of Coimbra, click here to submit a proposal
• If you are from the University of Pavia, click here to submit a proposal
• If you are from the University of Poitiers, click here to submit a proposal
• If you are from the University of Salamanca, please contact directly mholgado@usal.es
• If you are from the University of Turku, click here to submit a proposal

► Find out the complete mobility call here