European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions

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 EPICUR Alliance (European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions) builds bridges between the creative academic communities of 8 leading European universities from Amsterdam (NL), Freiburg (DE), Karlsruhe (DE), Mulhouse (FR), Poznań (PL), Strasbourg (FR), Thessaloniki (GR), Vienna (AT), serving as intellectual hubs to both the surrounding research and innovation landscapes and beyond. EPICUR’s vision on teaching and learning as well as on research and innovation evolves to reflect societal challenges, academic and technological developments and educational innovation, preparing well-informed, open-minded and responsible European citizens capable of creating new knowledge and becoming drivers of transnational innovation. Current and future generations of students, as well as teachers, researchers and staff, will engage in interdisciplinary, multilingual, research-inspired teaching and learning as well as cutting-edge research and innovation in an inter-university campus without borders. The pilot project test responses to: establishing boundless connectivity and free movement of students and staff across the 8 European campuses, using physical and virtual mobility; nurturing multilingualism, language acquisition and intercultural awareness; developing models for innovative, student-centred teaching and learning; providing thriving frameworks for research activities, closely linked to teaching activities; establishing a European academic node and developing sustainable governance structures.The main outputs will be: a model language policy for multilingual universities; a “European Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences”; an inter-university campus and learning platform based on gamification; inter-regional meta-networks, master labs, research internships, intercultural methodology; university community involvement through annual forums, ambassador programmes, challenges and festivals and a model governance structure for the alliance.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 5000000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
• KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
• UNIVERSITE DE HAUTE ALSACE UHA
• ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG
• ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
• UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU
• UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN