ARQUS European University Alliance Erasmus Project

Project Title

ARQUS European University Alliance

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : European Universities

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The Arqus European University Alliance brings together the universities of Bergen, Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon, Padova and Vilnius, seven longstanding comprehensive research universities who share extensive experience in joint projects in many fields, and a common profile as internationalized institutions with deep regional engagement in medium-sized cities.The Arqus European University Alliance aspires to build on the member universities’ sound prior experience in cooperation in order to achieve a high level of integration in its members’ policies and action plans in order to: • enhance the education of critically engaged European and global citizens who are able and willing to contribute to a multicultural, multilingual and inclusive Europe which is open to the world; • increase and improve the joint research capacity of the partner universities; • better respond to the grand societal challenges of the 21st century in Europe and beyond.The principal ambition of the Arqus Alliance is to act jointly as a laboratory for institutional learning from which to move forward in the design, testing and implementation of an innovative model for deep inter-university cooperation. The Alliance aims to consolidate a joint governance structure to facilitate the development of consensual joint policies and action plans, to consolidate participative structures to facilitate cross-cutting integration at all levels of the partner institutions, and to share its experience with other groupings in order to communicate the added value to be found in its model of integration.The Arqus Alliance aims to centre its efforts on enabling people: enabling a widely diverse student body and enhancing their learning experience; enabling a similarly diverse staff community and promoting their individual and collective professional development; enabling society at large by opening our doors and fully responding to the mission it has entrusted us.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 5000000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
• UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
• UNIVERSITAET GRAZ
• UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD