{"id":7460,"date":"2018-05-30T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/en\/news\/the-unigr-aims-to-become-one-of-the-first-european-universities\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:40:29","slug":"the-unigr-aims-to-become-one-of-the-first-european-universities","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/news\/the-unigr-aims-to-become-one-of-the-first-european-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"The UniGR aims to become one of the first “European universities”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of the Greater Region (UniGR) announced its intention and potential to become one of the first \u201cEuropean universities\u201d. The network, which reunites the universities of Kaiserslautern, Li\u00e8ge, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Saarland University and Trier University, will submit its candidacy to a call for proposals and can count on political support of the regions.<\/p>

With the initiative of “European university”, Emmanuel Macron’s speech given in September 2017 and that of the European Council of December 2017 gave new impetus to the European Higher Education Area.<\/p>

The President of the French Republic described a “European university” as “a network of universities from several European countries that creates study tracks in which students study abroad and take courses in at least two languages. European universities should be places of educational innovation and research excellence. We must try to create at least twenty by 2024.”<\/p>\n

\nThe "European university", a concept to be established<\/h2>\n

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The creation of a true “European university” requires a truly integrated, multilingual and transnational field of higher education and research. Students should be able to complete training or internships in partner institutions and to participate in training courses in several European Union languages.<\/p>

UniGR emphasizes that the activities of \u201cEuropean universities\u201d must cover all university missions – teaching, research and innovation – and must act upon on this knowledge triangle.<\/p>

The European Union will launch a call for proposals in the coming months. France has already announced its decision to co-finance French candidate universities.<\/p>

The political representatives who already officially support the candidacy of UniGR include the Minister-President of Saarland, Tobias Hans, the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister for Foreign Affairs, Konrad Wolf, the Delegate Minister for Higher Education and Research, Marc Hansen, the Vice-President of the Grand-Est region, Fran\u00e7ois Werner, and the Wallonia Minister for the Greater region, Ren\u00e9 Collin.<\/p>\n

\nAn existing model of the \u201cEuropean University\u201d<\/h2>\n

Since 2008, UniGR has been implementing a joint development strategy to upkeep university collaboration. The group relies on strong pillars such as:<\/p>