EUt+ Accelerates with second EU Commission Funding Announcement

3rd July 2023: The European University of Technology (EUt+) is moving to the deployment phase of the ‘European Universities’ initiative (1), an evolution marked by today’s announcement by the European Commission that EUt+ has received €14.4 million in funding for the second phase of the initiative from 2023-2027. Now is time to accelerate EUt+ ambitious plan to create a unified European University composed of eight campuses, soon to be nine, across Europe. Our strategy has been validated by the European Commission experts; we now have to make it blossom.

During a three-year pilot phase, EUt+ has experimented and validated the founding components of its trajectory. During this new phase, eleven interlinked work packages will focus on integrating the various governance structures and processes of all EUt+ members.

With a very high score of 96/100, the European Commission's evaluation highlighted the collaborative work already carried out in the fields of education, research, innovation, and the high level of ambition for this second four-year phase of deployment. A seamless mobility with a multi-lingual element leading to joint EUt+ European degrees is to be designed, alongside the development of an EUt+ Research Strategy and Implementation roadmap, both key insofar as we work together to create one of Europe's most impactful universities.

Welcoming the announcement, Timothée Toury, Secretary General of EUt+, declared, "EUt+ has a strong and ambitious mission statement which makes its positioning specific among the European Education and Research Area. It indeed states our eventual goal of merging and thus becoming a truly European University with campuses from western to eastern Europe, on a geographically balanced basis. Our members are technological Universities, regionally focused and globally connected, with a strong desire to serve society, addressing many of the world's most pressing challenges."

A major commitment in this new phase, making EUt+ noticeable among other alliances, is an agreement by all EUt+ members on an equal distribution of the budget, regardless of differences in salaries and living costs. This decision ensures that member universities converge towards a common European standard. 

EUt+ looks forward to this acceleration phase, launched with the objective to facilitate the full roll-out of the European Universities initiative and which will be for us the opportunity to make our ambition, our reality.