Livestreaming of Conference Sessions

Key moments of the 2025 Coimbra Group General Assembly will be available via live streaming, offering the opportunity to follow the event remotely and engage with its most relevant sessions.

Live broadcasts will be available on the official YouTube channel of the University of Bologna:

🎥 UniBo YouTube Channel

The following sessions will be livestreamed:

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Wednesday, 11 June

14:30 Reflected in Water. Development, Resilience, Inequalities.

Keynote Speech, Prof. Andrea Rinaldo – University of Padua /Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

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Thursday, 12 June

9:30 Opening Speeches

Prof. Giovanni Molari, Rector of the University of Bologna

Isabella Conti, Regional Councillor for Welfare, the Third Sector, Childhood Policies, and Education

10:00 Global Shifts, Innovative Futures: Shaping Inclusive Excellence.
Keynote speech: Prof. Kum Kum Bhavnani - University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Prof. Raffaella Campaner, Vice Rector for International Relations

11:30 –Empowering Local and Global Communities: from the Poitiers Declaration to the Future.

Chair: Prof. Maria Letizia Guerra, Delegate for Public Engagement Round table: Rectors of Coimbra Group Universities and Mayors of the Cities.

13:45 –3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Live Final

Moderation: Adriana Zait, Chair of the Coimbra Group Doctoral Studies Working Group

Personalized Medicine - Health for Every Body Bianca Brandl, University of Graz
Looking Inside the Liver: Unveiling Cancer’s Metabolic Fingerprint Uffe Kjærgaard, Aarhus University
Triggering Healing: Materials that Outsmart Brain Cancer Almudena Moreno Borrallo, Trinity College Dublin

14:00 Open Session on the European Universities Alliances: “How to Handle the Social Responsibility with the Alliances?”

Speakers:
Silvia Bianconcini, Rector’s Delegate for Una Europa, University of Bologna (moderator)
Susanne Conze, Head of Higher Education, DG EAC, European Commission
Eva Voldřichová Beránková, 4EU+
Artur Schmitt, Arqus
Meritxell Chaves, CHARM-EU
Alessio Cavicchi, Circle U.
Ludovic Thilly, EC2U
Jacquelien Scherpen, ENLIGHT
Christina Biehl, EUniWell
Soledad Garcia Ferrari, Una Europa