GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Topic 1: this call topic will provide support for already existing deep institutional transnational cooperation alliances including – but not limited to – the European Universities alliances selected under the 2019 Erasmus+ call for proposals. The aim is to build upon the institutional cooperation achieved so far and to further deepen, intensify and expand the effectiveness of this existing cooperation to advance the higher education transformation process towards fully fledged ‘European Universities’. Topic 2: this call topic will provide support for applicants wishing to establish new deep institutional transnational cooperation in a new ‘European Universities’ alliance.

The European Universities initiative responds to a long-term vision that has the potential to transform the institutional cooperation between higher education institutions and bring it to the next level.

European Universities’ will reach the above aims by gradually implementing the following specific objectives:

• Develop and implement an integrated long-term joint strategy for education
• Establish a European higher education inter-university ‘campus‘
• Build European knowledge-creating teams (“challenge-based approach”)

(further details p. 5-7 of the work program)

In addition, ‘European Universities’ should progressively build their capacity to act as models of good practice to further increase the quality, international competitiveness and attractiveness of the European higher education landscape.

Applicants can submit a proposal that aims either to support existing alliances (Topic 1) or to set-up new alliances (Topic 2) going beyond any existing bilateral and multilateral cooperation, through a step-by-step approach towards deeper institutionalised transnational cooperation and gradually achieving the long-term ambitious vision for European Universities. This action will test different innovative and structural models for implementing and achieving the long-term vision that has the potential to transform the institutional cooperation between higher education institutions and bring it to the next level. They will have the possibility to associate academic and nonacademic partners from the world of work and to grow at a later stage.