Started in 2020 as part of the European Universities Initiative (EUI), the “European Reform University Alliance” (ERUA) European Universities Initiative (EUI), has re-imagined higher education and research to build an ERUA community and campus with 5 partners.
This consortium has allowed us to build a community, promote our critical ideas and develop our sustainable conception of academia.
To pursuit and fulfil our initial ideas, at this stage we started and conducted various activities and achieved significant results:
Various mapping exercises as a prerequisite for further collaborative activities in terms of research, projects, initiatives, potential cooperation fields and staff training mechanisms have also been achieved.
Sharing of good practices to identify and capitalise on best practices and approaches have also been successful.
Furthermore, the alliance has already defined 10 joint strategies and policies that contribute to ERUA’s long-term strategy.
Previously, all governance, advisory bodies and operational structures have been set-up and stable working groups capable of shouldering operations have been formed.
In the initial years of the alliance (2020-2023), these activities have targeted teachers, students and the administrative staff. There have been activities leading to community building and creating an identity of the alliance such as teaching weeks, staff days, virtual and experimental event series. Due in particular to the pandemic, the development of physical mobility has been below expectations, but we have taken up the occasion to build virtual and blended mobility. Physical, virtual and blended student mobility contracts have been implemented. The Alliance also facilitated 596 staff mobilities during the first implementation period, of which 14 were physical and 582 were virtual or blended. Of course, COVID-19 has temporarily hampered our mobility initiatives, however, we aim to build from these Alliance collaborations and push ERUA’s physical and virtual mobility towards a 50% threshold via our innovative learning pathways (WP2) and supporting activities (WP4 and WP8).
Individually and collectively, the institutions of our initiative ERUA are committed to a fundamentally experimental approach.
We thus claim that:
These convictions are what brings us together and defines us as reform institutions; they help us maintain our critical edge. And they are also the reason for which we bring added value to the development of European Universities: Europe is looking for a new organisational paradigm. Universities are national institutions. Yet their mission of fostering the intellectual prosperity of humanity is inherently global. It is therefore only fitting that Europe should seek to go beyond the 19th century state-based organisational model. Still, how this will work, what true European Universities will look like and what their conditions of success will be still remains to be developed – to be experimented.
ERUA members share a tradition of critical thinking, innovative pedagogy, an interdisciplinary and disruptive out of the box mindset, which makes them ideally suited to develop this experimental approach.
Albeit a comprehensive alliance, we are particularly strong in the Social Sciences and Humanities. This enables us to develop original interdisciplinary approaches connecting the SSH to the Natural Sciences, Computer Sciences and Engineering (via competences notably of Konstanz, UAegean and Roskilde) and to the Arts (via Paris 8 and NBU).
This crossing-over of the SSH to other fields of study is also a strategic focus of our strategy for societal engagement and our networking strategy. We will increasingly reach out to technical institutions to provide them with the critical skills that are increasingly valued in contexts of Human Tech and Responsible Technology.
With this impact-focused profile in the SSH, we combine local engagement and a global vision: locally we link up with regional actors, offering them a far larger teaching and research portfolio han we could individually thanks to our capacity at dissemination and networking throughout Europe and beyond.
Our European Reform University will be a living laboratory:
Concretely, to move forward on our ambition during the funding period, we will advance on the following goals and objectives:
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