The T4EU Green Transformer Summer School and Student Challenge Enabling Innovative Wool Transformation Through Sustainable and Adaptive Resource Processing (organised as a blended intensive program – BIB) aims to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of the scientific, technological, and socio‑economic challenges associated with modern wool utilization.
The school responds directly to this challenge by training a new generation of researchers and practitioners who can rethink wool not as a residual material to be disposed of, but rather as a versatile biobased feedstock with high potential in sustainable rural development, circular economies, and innovative industrial applications.
Skill Development and Expected Outcomes
By the end of the summer school, participants will have gained:
- A deep understanding of wool’s chemical, physical, and functional properties.
- Practical knowledge of both traditional and cutting‑edge processing technologies.
- The ability to identify sustainable innovation pathways for rural communities.
- Experience collaborating with real stakeholders across the wool ecosystem.
- The skills to design adaptive, eco‑efficient processing strategies for natural fibres within broader bioresource value chains.
- Graduate student will receive 3 ECTS
- The 5000€ award will be distributed between students’ groups for a competition on the most innovative solution for wool transformation
Ultimately, the program cultivates competence and creativity among students who will become future leaders in sustainable materials, rural development, and circular‑bioeconomy sectors. The goal is not only to improve wool utilization, but to inspire transformative thinking about how society values and manages its natural resources.
Funding and documents:
The activity is implemented under the Erasmus+ programme as a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP).
Participation requires meeting the requirements of the Erasmus+ programme. Only persons with an active status of a student or doctoral student at the University of Silesia may participate in the BIP. The BIP programme and participation in it must be approved by the home teaching unit of the individual participant, i.e. by the home faculty or doctoral school or IEDS – this is done by accepting and signing the learning agreement for studies, before the trip an individual Erasmus+ KA131 HED BIP grant agreement is signed. The settlement of the trip is based on the confirmation issued by the BIP’s organising institution on the completion of the whole BIP course, including the online and stationary parts, the physical presence during the whole stationary part, the acquisition of a minimum of 3 ECTS credits and the completion of the individual participant’s report and the submission of additional documents, if required, including declarations, statements of tickets and invoices or receipts in the case of travel by environmentally friendly means of transport and receipt of an increased flat-rate contribution to travel costs (Green Travel). Participants, upon acceptance by the home teaching unit, the sending university and the host university, fulfilment of all requirements and submission of the required documents, and the conclusion of an individual Erasmus+ grant agreement, receive:
- Individual funding: EUR 79 per mobility day (5 days + 2 travel days)
- Lump sum for travel costs – dependent on the chosen mode of transport and distance:
- EUR 417 – environmentally friendly travel (e.g. train, bus, carpooling)
- EUR 309 – regular travel (e.g. plane)
For the settlement of the lump-sum travel funds, in the case of travel by environmentally friendly means of transport (Green Travel), the above-mentioned documents will be required (declaration, declarations of travel by environmentally friendly means of transport, tickets, invoices/receipts (in the case of travel by bus or train).
Those with fewer opportunities to participate (people with disabilities or receiving a social allowance) can receive an additional EUR 100 for the entire trip.
Each Erasmus+ KA131 HED BIP must include an online component and an on-site component of at least 5 days (not including travel days).
Each participant covers his or her own accommodation and food costs from the funds received as part of the individual allowance.
Documents required:
- Learning Agreement for Studies (Erasmus+ BIP);
- Application for travel abroad – WS;
- [Complete signatures: participant, faculty coordinator, and dean];
- GDPR information clause.
The allowance agreement will be signed upon submission of the complete set of documents to the International Exchange Office of the University of Silesia.
Mobility will be settled on the basis of:
- confirmation of the completion of the programme by the organising university (Primorska University);
- completing an individual online questionnaire in the Beneficiary Module system;
- in the case of Green Travel funding, the documents indicated above;
- providing the Transform4Europe office with a project report titled
Recruitment: The students will be selected based on the assessment of applications.
The deadline for submitting applications is 22 May 2026.
Registration form: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/7289
If you have any questions about recruitment, please contact: agnieszka.kwasniak@us.edu.pl.
