ENLIGHT network submits application „European University“
On 26. February 2020 the ENLIGHT network has submitted its application within the second Erasmus+ call for proposals of the „European Universities Initiative“. ENLIGHT consists of nine comprehensive, research-intensive and well renowned universities from nine European countries. The consortium showcases geographical, cultural and linguistic diversity and builds upon many years of successful bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
The ENLIGHT Consortium’s aim is to promote equitable quality of life, sustainability and global engagement through the transformation of European higher education. It seeks to empower up to 300,000 learners with the background knowledge, skillsets and innovative potential that is necessary to become forces of positive change and to tackle various major societal challenges. To meet its goals, ENLIGHT will develop a new university system with free movement of students and staff, as well as the sharing of resources that gradually links the structures of quality assurance, international outreach, global engagement, talent recruitment and research infrastructure.
ENLIGHT has identified five flagship areas that focus on different sustainability issues future cities and communities will have to deal with such as, ‘Health and Wellbeing’, ‘Digitalisation’, ‘Climate Change’, ‘Energy use and circular economy’ and ‘Equity’. The cities that are linked through the ENLGHT Consortium will play a vital role in the development of learning formats and research activities as they will function as living laboratories in which measures that are implemented to tackle those challenges will be tested and further developed according to inconsistencies emerging in the real-life context. More information on https://enlight-eu.org/
“By promoting student mobility and expanding a joint international curriculum dedicated to the future challenges Europe’s cities and communities are facing, in particular, in terms of urbanisation, our network will contribute to improving the quality of life and sustainability in the regions around the universities,” says Professor Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Göttingen.
Contact
Dr. Esther von Richthofen
Regional Coordinator Europe,
Georgia, Israel, Russia and Turkey
The International Office
esther.vonRichthofen@zvw.uni-goettingen.de