About ERUA
The European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) is a consortium of eight European reform universities committed to exploring innovative approaches in research, teaching, and institutional advancement. As part of the European Universities Initiative (EUI), one of the key initiatives of the European Commission, ERUA aims to advance the development of a European Education Area and the implementation of the European Strategy for Universities.
Our Mission
We, the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA), have set up and developed our consortium around our foundational principles as a reform alliance. By pooling our individual strengths and past achievements, we will increase our societal impact by creating a powerful academic hub for critical and innovative contribution to a free, more equitable and democratic Europe. We believe that to shape peaceful, just, and sustainable futures, higher education and research must be transformed.
Our Vision
By bringing together academics from Europe’s East and West, North and South, and welcoming students from top and lower socio-economic deciles, from rural and urban, insular and mainland settings, local and global backgrounds, ERUA aspires over the coming years to create a genuinely integrated European community, in which each university will retain its individual traits while working together to create a common, transformative and long-term vision of education, research, innovation and service to society in Europe. ERUA is one in a kind amongst European Universities thanks to our focus on the social sciences, humanities and arts. Our public value lies in our capacity to critically reflect and contribute to solving the global challenges of our times with an interdisciplinary perspective, which draws on our ongoing and fruitful dialogue with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
Foundational principles
Reform is at the heart of ERUA, both in name and in spirit, and grounded on the following principles:
- Being Critical
- Empowering Students
- Being Open
- Fostering Sustainability
- Making a Difference
- Promoting Initiative
Our Values
ERUA builds on shared core values, while embracing diversity in the role, specific aims and approaches at the partner universities:
- Openness
- Student-centered
- Inclusiveness
- Humanism
- Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis (France)
- University of the Aegean (Greece)
- New Bulgarian University (Bulgaria)
- SWPS University (Poland)
- Mykolo Romerio universitetas (Lithuania)
- Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
- University of Macerata (Italy)
- European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany)
For more detailed information, please visit the official ERUA website: https://erua-eui.eu/
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