Date: November 28-29, 2025
Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2025, 23:59 (CET)
We invite you to take part in ERUA’s Online Biennale “Arts & Edges”, which will be hosted by the University of the Aegean on November 28-29, 2025. Open to all European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) member institutions, associated partners, and interested stakeholders, the Biennale will bring together academia, communities and social actors to present and discuss experiences and perspectives on the Arts & Edges theme. The University of the Aegean invites Master and PhD students, researchers, faculty, communities and social actors to address issues related to the dynamic association between Arts & the concept of “edge”, as a critical concept for ERUA profile and objectives.
The European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) introduces Edge as a central, interdisciplinary theme that captures the dynamic space between boundaries—whether physical, symbolic, or conceptual. It highlights the tension and potential at the threshold where change becomes possible or inevitable. Far from being a rigid divider, the edge is framed as a transition zone – an intersection that fosters innovation, creativity, and critical inquiry across disciplines and cultures. To work and live on the edge means cultivating sensitivity to otherness and critically engaging with issues of exclusion, distinction, marginalization, minority status, and peripheralization, all with a view toward social change.
In the context of ERUA, the edge serves as a key thematic lens, emphasizing the role of the arts in research and critical inquiry. As it intersects with all ERUA research areas, this theme integrates and amplifies the objectives of the alliance’s other four thematic areas, revealing unexpected and transformative perspectives that underscore ERUA’s capacity for dynamic social engagement.
Based on the above conceptual framework, you are warmly invited to participate in the Arts & Edges Online Biennale by submitting a proposal that may integrate at least one of the following areas:
- Migration, Exile, Refugees and Borders
- Environmental Transition
- Democracy, Human Rights, Inclusion, and Gender Equality
- Interculturality and Multilingualism
- Practices, Interventions, and Experiments in Local Societies
- Cutting-Edge Issues in Public Space
More about the conceptual framework and the evaluation process, you may find by referring to the file here.
Deadline and application process:
Proposals require an abstract (up to 300 words), accompanied by up to 6 keywords and a short author’s bio (up to 250 words).
Proposals are to be submitted no latter than June 30, 2025, 23:59 (CET).
Please use the abstract template provided in the online form: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/784b40d8-cc21-7061-1580-2054b3ee3614
Important dates:
You will receive notification of acceptance by July 24, 2025
Presenters’ registration (no fee required) should be completed by August 31, 2025, 23:59 (CET)
This initiative is held within the framework of ERUA’s WP5, “Achieving Social Change in ERUA’s Local Communities and Regions”.
For any clarifications, you may need, please contact us at: erua-eui@aegean.gr. Please put prof. Elena Theodoropoulou (theod@aegean.gr) in CC in your email.
Looking forward your insightful contributions!
