URL, new official member of the European University Alliance ENGAGE.EU

ENGAGE.EU, which started in 2020 as "European University", aims to bring together the students, scholars, and support staff of nine prominent European universities (University of Mannheim, Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki and Vaasa), Luiss University (Rome), NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen), Tilburg University, Ramon Llull University (Barcelona), University of National and World Economics (Sofia), University Toulouse Capitole, Vienna University of Economics and Business).

The objective is to develop new models to stimulate student and staff mobility that contribute to the quality, inclusiveness, and competitiveness of European higher education. Within the alliance, we work at an interdisciplinary level on sustainable solutions for social issues by offering a programme focusing on education, innovation, and research. As part of this programme, students, scholars, and staff can make both online and off-line use of the programmes and courses offered at the affiliated European universities.

Besides building the ENGAGE.EU organisation, making agreements, and streamlining working processes, many projects have been realised in the past three years in which students and scholars were able to experience the benefits of ENGAGE.EU. Some examples include offering more than 500 courses for ENGAGE.EU students in a joint course catalogue, the more than 50 students who are participating in the Master's-level honoursprogram of Digital Transformation, and the seven expedition weeks in which almost 200 students have worked on social challenges together with external stakeholders. In addition, a research community platform has been developed and launched in which approximately 250 scholars have found each other as sources of inspiration and collaboration.