Our higher education institutions represent more than 180,000 students and 50,000 graduates each year, 16,000 faculty members and 11,000 administrative staff. Following the motto "United in diversity", EELISA brings together complementary strengths and profiles across Europe with respect to engineering education and political background. We envision a future in which society thrives and masters global challenges with smart and sustainable solutions empowered by European engineering. The fundaments for this future must be laid in higher education. Thus, we want to transform European engineering education in a way that we open learning up and combine innovative teaching methods across our institutions to convey basic knowledge more efficiently. This will be significantly rounded out with interdisciplinary learning, the development of transferable skills and real-world problem solving together with extra-university partners. EELISA's mission is ultimately to transform the whole European Higher Education Area, converting it into a central actor and a model in Europe for solving societal challenges and empowering student citizenship participation and employability by: Re-inventing the "European engineer"; Democratizing engineering education; Evolving interdisciplinary engineering learning; Fostering knowledge and technology transfer; Stimulating inclusiveness; inspiring others. The prototype of our ambition will be "European engineering", which is consistent with our main area of activity. We regard this as a good proof-of-concept for the whole education sector and plan to build this prototype based on two pilot tracks, directly related to Sustainable Development Goals: Smart, Green and Resilient Cities and 2) Sustainable and Smart Industry. In the immediate years, we will follow up other priorities of the Horizon Europe agenda. Our mission implementation will be accelerated by our three strategic mission boosters: communities, diplomas and credentials, and campuses