CIVIS – A European university collaboration 

Interview with François Heinderyckyx. Advisor to the President at the Université Libre de Bruxelle

Stockholm University is part of CIVIS, a European Civic University formed by the alliance of several leading research higher education institutions across Europe:

CIVIS – European Civic University Alliance logo

• Université d’Aix-Marseille (France)
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
• University of Bucharest (Romania)
• Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
• Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
• Stockholm University
• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)
• University of Glasgow (UK)
• Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria)
• University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

Cooperation across national borders

The purpose of CIVIS is to facilitate cooperation across national borders and to increase the mobility of students, teachers and other staff. The alliance focuses on five global challenges:

• Health
• Cities and mobility
• Climate, environment, energy
• Digital and technological transformations
• Society, cultures and heritage

The collaboration creates opportunities for research, teaching, cultural exchanges and citizen engagement from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, with connections to the whole world.

European universities

The alliance is supported by the European Commission via the Erasmus + call "European Universities" which aims to increase collaboration between European universities and thereby increase the quality and attractiveness of higher education in Europe.

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