UNITA is an alliance of six Romance-language speaking universities located in rural and cross-border mountain areas. It is constituted of the Universidade Beira Interior (Portugal), Universidad Zaragoza (Spain), Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France), Università di Torino (Italy, coordinator), and Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara (Romania), gathering more than 165,000 students and 13,000 staff members (http://univ-unita.eu).
One of UNITA’s goals is develop Research and Innovation activities in each of the alliance's three thematic areas:
• Cultural heritage
• Renewable energies
• Circular economy
To Promote these research activities, 8 cotutelle PhD grants have been awarded to research projects that involve a French research team (at UPPA and USMB) and another partner university of the alliance.
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