DEMPOWER is a project to design and establish a new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s programme focused on democratic resilience, media power and information integrity. Category: Incubator Grant University: University of the Basque Country, Comenius University Bratislava, University of Galway

The ENLIGHT Empathy Incubator (E²) is a 5 ECTS Blended Intensive Programme designed to empower students to use empathy as a driver for innovation, inclusive leadership, and societal impact. Category: Incubator Grant University: University of the Basque Country, University of Bern, University of Galway, Ghent University, University of Tartu Period: 2025-2027 The ENLIGHT Empathy Incubator (E²) is a 5 ECTS Blended Intensive Programme designed to empower students to use empathy as a driver for innovation, inclusive leadership, and societal impact. The programme follows a full blended pathway: pre-online empathy foundations, an intensive experiential in-person week, and a post-online reflective and impact-focused phase. Through immersive experiences, lived-experience partner engagement, empathy games, design thinking, problem framing, and multidisciplinary collaboration, students tackle ENLIGHT flagship challenges related to equity, health and wellbeing, digitalisation, climate, and culture. Students develop competencies mapped to the ENLIGHT Competence Framework and EntreComp, including critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, global citizenship, and adaptability. By integrating community partners as co-educators and using challenge-based methodologies, the programme delivers authentic societal impact and builds long-term capacity for human-centred innovation across ENLIGHT institutions. The incubator provides a unique European model for empathy-driven learning, combining emotional intelligence development with innovation competencies to create graduates equipped to lead meaningful change. "The defining highlight of E² is its deep partnership with lived-experience contributors, who join the programme as co-educators. This creates transformative learning moments in which students confront real human stories, challenge their assumptions, and build authentic empathy that directly informs their innovation process. The result is a genuinely human-centred environment that blends academic rigour Standardised Enlight with emotional learning."

Bridging the disciplines of geography and geology, the Earth Observatory Field School (EOFS) delivers hands-on collaborative training to our future researchers and decision-makers, and equips them with the skills and perspectives needed to confront the challenges posed by climate change Category: Incubator Grant University: University of the Basque Country, University of Galway, Uppsala University

This virtual exchange project explores transatlantic migration from Europe to the Americas during the long 19th century (ca. 1760–ca. 1914), with a focus on Swiss, Italian, French, German, and Iberian experiences.. Category: Incubator Grant University: University of the Basque Country, University of Bern Period: 2025-2027 This virtual exchange project explores transatlantic migration from Europe to the Americas during the long 19th century (ca. 1760–ca. 1914), with a focus on Swiss, Italian, French, German, and Iberian experiences. Students will investigate migrant narratives and voices using digitized and non-digitized archival materials – such as letters, photographs, newspapers, administrative records, and memoirs – and share their findings across borders. The course will emphasize how migrants were integrated into their host societies and how they actively shaped the processes they were involved in. Special attention will be given to the role of migration in driving political, economic, social, cultural, scientific, and intellectual transformations in the emerging nations of the Americas. "The most outstanding feature of this course is that it brings together students from both the sending and receiving countries involved in the mass migration processes of the long nineteenth century. In most cases, students encounter national narratives that approach this topic from a narrowly focused, country-specific perspective. This course offers students the opportunity not only to share these narratives with one another but also to move beyond them, enabling the collaborative construction of a broader and more integrated understanding of their shared past."