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CIVIS Days 2025

Over the course of three days, participants took part in transversal sessions and dissemination activities designed to exchange best practices, foster dialogue, and explore innovative strategies. With “Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education” as the central theme, CIVIS Days 2025 addressed a topic deeply rooted in our shared European values.

As in previous editions, CIVIS Days 2025 in Rome combined interactive sessions, collaborative workshops, and dissemination panels, reinforcing the CIVIS Alliance’s role as a vibrant and transnational university community. Participants joined both on-site and via livestreams, engaging in a rich programme of activities. A particular highlight was the series of dissemination sessions, where project leaders and members of the CIVIS community shared key lessons learned and reflected on their experiences throughout the alliance’s transformative journey.

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CHECK OUT THE PROGRAMME

11 June 2025

Welcome speeches

  • Antonella Polimeni, Rector Sapienza University Rome
  • Video message by Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, EC  European Commission's Directorate General Member of the VP Minzatu Cabinet Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness.

Keynote: Diversity and Inclusion in HE Plenary: "From Inclusivity to ... Transclusivity. The road from inclusive universities to transformative European Alliances’’ - Romiță Iucu, University of Bucharest

Round Table with Marian Preda, the Rector University of Bucharest & Mattia Bellotti, the Secretary-General of EUTOPIA Alliance.

11 June 2025 - 16:30 - 17:30 CET

Type: Panel

Description: The session aims to share our experiences and insights from leading the Student Council, emphasizing the critical role of student leadership within a University Alliance.

We aim to provide an overview of the CIVIS Student Council and its mission to foster collaboration and innovation among students from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds. A significant focus will be on the organization of the upcoming Hackathon during the CIVIS Days in Rome.

11 June 2025 - 16:30 - 18:30 CET

Type: Simulation game.

Description: PolyCIVIS is currently operating the first of four BIPs with the aim of creating a joint master programme "Managing the Polycrisis". The joint core element of these four BIPs are simulation games in which possible problem-solving-scenarios for polycrises are exemplified.

11 June 2025 - 16:30 - 17:30 CET

Type: Panel

Description: We aim to share the researchers' experiences on how their projects fostered robust collaborations with leading universities across Europe and non-academic partners, significantly enhancing their international profiles.

These collaborations not only paved the way for innovative research and impactful results but also laid a strong foundation for effective dissemination within both the academic community and broader society.

11 June 2025 - 17:30 - 18:30 CET

Type: Fishbowl

Description: The initiative aims to share experiences on the approach to museology in university courses, focusing on how these courses facilitate the involvement of external experts and institutions. The discussion will explore the role of educators in connecting with the external context while contributing to the improvement of museum services, particularly through student involvement and the outcomes of educational activities.

Professionals from museums and cultural institutions could be invited to provide insights and discuss future expectations.

11 June 2025 - 17:30 - 18:30 CET

Description: Thanks to seed-funding projects, important collaborations have been initiated and developed among researchers working on various topics within the CIVIS alliance. A dissemination session will explore the range of themes and approaches developed by academics concerning inclusivity. Topics will include an examination of freedom of expression laws, local traditions of public participation and civic engagement in crisis prevention, the use of micro-credentials to promote well-being and the integration of disadvantaged migrants into higher education, to name a few. The hybrid session will offer an opportunity to discuss the value of adopting European and African perspectives, as well as existing collaborations beyond academia.

11 June 2025 - 17:30 - 18:30 CET

Type: Fishbowl session

Description: Discussion between academic libraries and the student council : presentation of activities and services libraries offer to foster inclusion and guarantee equity of access to all. We aim to get feedback from students : (bad or good) experiences, new ideas to enforce, and suggestions.

12 June 2025 - 17:00 - 19:00

  • Learning experience in Service Learning at institutional and national levels Plenary, with Mohammed Moola - University of Witswatersrand & Pilar Aramburuzabal - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Award ceremonies for the Creathon, Service Learning & Open Lab projects

12 June 2025 - 19:00 - 20:30 CET

Concert of the CIVIS Orchestra, linked to the Blended Intensive Programme Rome CIVIS Orchestra Academy 2025

The project seeks to establish an academic framework in the BIP format, to continue the first two CIVIS orchestra academies, held in Marseille (April 2022) and in Madrid (May 2023). The initiative, led by Sapienza with the participation of CIVIS students and professor from other members universities. The main objective is to perform a concert in Rome during the CIVIS days of June 2025, featuring CIVIS students from as many partner universities as possible, and demonstrate how a CIVIS community actually exists and can be made real through music.

Learn about previous performances of the CIVIS Orchestra in Marseille (2022) and in Madrid (2023)

Programme: 

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875):

Conductor: Maria Bazou (GR)

From Carmen Suite no.1

  • Prelude et Aragonaise
  • Seguedille
  • Les toréadors

From Carmen Suite no.2

  • Habanera
  • Chanson du Toreadors
  • Danse boheme

Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904):

Conductors: Josè Maria Alvarez Munoz (ES) and Sebastien Boin (F)

  • Symphony n. 9 in e minor op. 95 "From the New world"

Nikolaj Rimskij Korsakov (1844 – 1908):

Conductor: Demetrio Moricca (IT)

  • Capriccio Espagnol op. 34

The Orchestra:

  • Flute: Sofia Chatzi (GR), Diego Cortizas (ES), Eidan Oba Fleitas Cabrera (ES), Dora Strukan Garrone (IT), Lea-Marie Tewald (D)
  • Oboe: Andrea Iozzi (IT), Clara Schwarz (D), Clotilde Vion (F)
  • Clarinet: Evohe Adone (IT), Ulises Martín Melián (ES), Ioanna Plessa (GR), Panagiota Ponirou (GR)
  • Bassoon: Johannes Adams (D), Paula Díaz García (ES)
  • Horn: Chytelman Nathanaël (F), Erik Ahlborn (D)
  • Trumpet: Varvara Gkourarou  (GR), Annika Muras (D)
  • Trombon: Vincenzo Addelio (IT), Umberto Di Giuseppe (IT), Saverio Sansone (IT)
  • Tuba: Marco Gangarossa (IT)
  • Percussions: Simon Alexandre (B), Giorgia Bracchi (IT), Mattia Fiorucci (IT), Raphaël Gillet-Bouvatier (F), Alexandra Kokkali (GR)
  • Harp: Maria Malafi (GR)
  • Violin I: Niklas Geier (D), Stefania Eirini Evangelisti (GR), Antonia Fleischhacker (D), Daniele Gorla (IT), Thao Lyn Le (D), Alexander Lienig (D), Jesus  Gomez Martinez (ES), Magdalena Müller (D), Miriam Ohngemach (D), Antonia Thieme (D)
  • Violin II: Imke Kienzle (D), Chiara Amatucci (IT), Eleni Dousi (GR), Sophia Foppa (D), Elena Grooß (D), Nicolas Leon (ES), Isabel Moreno Parra (ES), Dennis Schwab (D), Vasileios Trapalis (GR), Nikolas Vogiatzis (GR)
  • Alto: Anouk Krafft (D), Kaja Böttcher (D), Dario Masoni (IT), Johanna Mauch (D), Sophia Busch (D)
  • Cello: Jonas Böttiger (D), Friederike Beuchel (D), Maria-Evangelia Bitsikokou (GR), Johanna Moormann (D), Anna Pruß (D), Hannah Sondermann (D), Sara Spinelli (IT), Eleonora Zedda (IT)
  • Double Bass: Anna Lenuzza (D), Elena Pia Maria Bantle (D), Michael Dan (D),  Gianluca Pallocca (IT)