European Universities

Objective

European Universities’ main objectives are to further develop institutionalised cooperation, making it systemic, structural and sustainable and to increase quality, performance and international competitiveness of European higher education institutions. In line with the vision for a European Education Area, these alliances intend to achieve the following aims: As such, European Universities aim at achieving the following main objectives:

• Promote common European values as enshrined in article 2 of the Treaty on European Union and a strengthened European identity by bringing together a new generation of Europeans who are able to cooperate and work within different European and global cultures, in different languages, and across borders, sectors and academic disciplines.
• Reach a substantial leap in quality, performance, attractiveness and international competitiveness and enable deep institutional transformation of involved European higher education institutions and contribute to the European knowledge economy, employment, creativity, culture and welfare by making best use of innovative pedagogies and striving to make the knowledge square a reality. European Universities will be key drivers to boost the quality of higher education and where possible to strengthen its links to the research and innovation landscape in Europe and its outreach towards the society and economy.

This call for proposals will support alliances of higher education institutions demonstrating an existing deep institutional transnational cooperation, including - but not limited to - the European Universities alliances previously funded under the 2023 Erasmus+ call for proposals (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-EUR-UNIV), taking their cooperation to the next level and concretely materialising their long-term strategies, in line with the ambitious vision of the European Universities initiative as described in this call.

The Erasmus+ funding period for the alliances selected under this call will be of 2 years.