The alliance has set up 7 living FORTHEM Labs for education, research and innovation on topics which reflect our areas of special expertise and are of crucial societal relevance. The outputs of the Labs will include new online teaching material for FORTHEM Digital Academy, new intensive courses, joint scientific publications and final reports of civic engagement projects.

Labs work in the following topics:

1.      Experiencing Europe Lab (coordinated by the University of Opole; Alliance level Contact Person: Barbara Curyło, Robert Geisler),

2.      Diversity and Migration Lab (coordinated by the University of Palermo; Alliance level Contact Persons: Annalisa Mangiaracina, Francesco Lo Piccolo and Giuseppe Paternostro),

3.      Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab (coordinated by the University of Jyväskylä; Alliance level Contact Person: Tamás Péter Szabó and Petteri Laihonen),

4.      Food Science Lab (coordinated by the University of Burgundy; Alliance level Contact Persons: Frédéric Debeaufort and Clémentine Hugol-Gential),

5.      Digital Transformation Lab (coordinated by the University of València; Alliance level Contact Person: Jose Carlos Pedrosa López),

6.      Climate and Resources Lab (coordinated by Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz; Alliance level Contact Person: Virginia Gail Toy)

7.      Resilience, Life Quality and Demographic Change Lab (coordinated by the University of Latvia, Riga; Alliance level Contact Person: Lilian Tzivian)

Further information about FORTHEM Lab Actions:

Scientific Manager Tamás Péter Szabó

University of Jyväskylä

tamas.p.szabo@jyu.fi