AARC PhD Forum

PhD Conference 2025

The PhD Conference 2025 took take place between November 10^th-12^th, 2025, and was hosted by Szécheny István University in Győr. 13 PhD students from AARC members presented their work on the topic ” Thinking of the Quality of Life for the Young Generation in the Alpine and Adriatic region through the eyes of a young researcher in circular economy and human and social science”. The event was organised back to back with the meeting of the Scientific Committee.

AARC PhD Conference 2024

Thinking of the Quality of Life for the Young Generation in the Alpine and Adriatic region through the eyes of a young researcher in circular economy and human and social science. Abstracts are published at the University of Maribor’s University Press: https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/1044.

 Maribor/Slovenia, November 14 – 15^th, 2024

4th AARC PhD Students’ Conference

Innovative Technologies in Biomedicine

University of Rijeka
19^th – 20^th September, 2019

Further information: https://uniri.hr/en/aarc-doctoral-conference/

3rd PhD Forum

Language. Literature. Politics. 1918-2018. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance

University of Klagenfurt
20^th – 22^nd September, 2018

Further information: https://conference.aau.at/event/150/

The overall aim of the conference was the scientific exchange between PhD students of the Alps-Adriatic region on the topic of languages not only of nationalisms, but also of critique and resistance based on the analysis of narrative, rhetoric, and argumentative strategies, as well as the use of metaphors, images, and other devices of communication. The conference had an interdisciplinary approach.

Journal Colloquium:
https://colloquium.aau.at/index.php/Colloquium

2nd PhD Students’ Conference

From Food to Health

University of Trieste
28^th – 30^th August, 2017

The general topic was intended to consider an ideal path leading from Food to Health (i.e. nutrition, nutraceuticals and nutrigenomics, natural products and health, metabolomics and other omics, microbiome, molecular oncology, biomaterials, biotechnology, traceability, biodiversity …) through scientifically relevant issues (societal impact of biomedical technologies) and to finally understand how to transfer this knowledge not only to scientists and experts, but also to the broad audience (scientific communication).

Further information: https://www.units.it/news/aarc-2nd-phd-students-conference

1st AARC PhD Students Conference

Environment and Sustainable Energy

University of Maribor
24^th – 25^th November, 2016

The overall aim of the conference was the transfer of knowledge, ideas and experiences between various universities within the Alps-Adriatic region on the topic of Environment and Sustainable Energy.

Further information: https://www.um.si/en/international/about/Pages/PhD_AARC.aspx