EURECA-PRO – The European University Alliance on Responsible Consumption and Production Erasmus Project

Project Title

EURECA-PRO – The European University Alliance on Responsible Consumption and Production

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

University of Leoben (Austria), Technical University Freiberg (Germany), University of Petrosani (Romania), University of Leon (Spain), Technical University of Crete (Greece), Silesian University of Technology (Poland) and Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (Germany) are seven higher education institutions located in six different EU member states that have joined forces to create a strong and unique European University in the field of Responsible Consumption and Production (RCP): EURECA-PRO.

It has a two-fold societal and planetary mission. On the one hand, it holistically contributes to the highly topical issue of RCP under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12, and on the other hand, it effectively contributes to the transformation of the European Higher Education Area complimentarily to SDG 4.

Innovation is the key to reaching the targeted CO2 reduction and associated sustainability practices of the EU Green Deal until 2050. Its realization is based on new technologies and processes that integrate material and resource flows of in the sense of the Circular Economy and on responsible consumption behaviours that are aligned with societal expectations concerning the fight against climate change. Inclusive, borderless and integrated Education supports more competent and skilled graduates that can contribute to this grand European societal challenge.

By 2040 EURECA-PRO is the global educational core hub and interdisciplinary research and innovation leader in qualitative environmental and social framework development for RCP of resources and goods. This comprises technological, ecological, policy, economic and societal aspects and their transfer into society and industry. Staff and future graduates will have sustainable, interdisciplinary, intercultural and systemic thinking engrained in their natural way of operation, fostering a prosperous societal development and a healthy economy while at the same time relieving environmental pressures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 4988340 Eur

Project Coordinator

MONTANUNIVERSITAET LEOBEN & Country: AT

Project Partners

• POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN PETROSANI
• HOCHSCHULE MITTWEIDA (FH)
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LEON
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG
• POLITECHNIKA SLASKA