CIVIS
A European Civic University
CIVIS is a European Civic University formed by the alliance of eleven leading research higher education institutions across Europe:
Aix-Marseille Université
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Universitatea din București
Université libre de Bruxelles
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Sapienza Università di Roma
Stockholm University
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
University of Glasgow
Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
University of Lausanne
It brings together a community of more than 470,000 students and 68,000 staff members including 35,000 academics and researchers.
CIVIS MISSION: CIVIS aims to create a truly unique European interuniversity campus where students, academics, researchers and staff will move and collaborate as freely as within their institution of origin. We will develop a deep level of European integration, involving joint learning pathways, development of complementary research facilities and diverse degree pathways.
CIVIS VISION: Our universities will become CIVIS’s European campuses.We envision our European University as a space for innovative and responsible teaching, research, cultural exchanges and citizen action across Europe and its institutions. Based on the solid and innovative education and scientific activity in each institution, CIVIS will unite efforts and experiences to develop a European University with strong links to its local social and geographical environment and an orientation toward global challenges. It will contribute to the social, cultural and economic dynamism at both a local and global scale.
CIVIS GOALS:
- sharing a long-term strategy on education, research, and innovation
- creating a European inter-university campus
- designing new pedagogical and mobility models
- improving social inclusiveness and geographical balance
- preparing new generations to future changes with ambitious and European recognised joint educational programmes at BA, MA and PhD level
- developing research and innovative projects in response to local, regional and global challenges
- increasing student mobility: 50% by 2025
- becoming a legal entity by 2022; participative, inclusive, civic university by 2030
