UniTS welcomed today Isabel Capeloa Gil, Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. The visit aimed to strengthen cooperation between the two universities within the Transform4Europe (T4EU) Alliance and to support the internationalisation of PhD programmes.

More specifically, following the doctoral Summer School organised in 2025 by C.U.R. E. – the Centre for Interdisciplinary Advanced Studies of Saarland University – together with the Zentrum für Literaturforschung in Berlin, which is also scheduled for 2026, Professor Maria Carolina Foi, Professor of German Literature at UniTS, initiated the collaboration between UniTS and the Catholic University of Portugal in the field of doctoral education.

This cooperation adds to existing collaborations within T4EU activities and to the joint planning of a new Master’s degree programme in Romance languages, also involving the University of Alicante and Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne.

The meeting was attended by Rector Donata Vianelli; Alberto Pallavicini, UniTS representative for the Transform4Europe European Alliance; Maria Carolina Foi, Professor of German Literature; and Sergia Adamo, Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literatures and Deputy Director of the Department of Humanities.