EUTOPIA brings together 6 distinctive universities to create a 2050 vision of a federated inter-university campus that is: • geared to future challenges • student-centred and empowering • attentive to the plurality, potentiality and pre-eminence of Europe’s regions• committed to the principles of openness and inclusion.The 2025 objectives of the EUTOPIA alliance operationalise the vision by creating• a learning community• knowledge communities• powerful place-making partnerships• decisive inclusivity actions• ambitious international networking. The objectives observe 10 principles and 6 commitments, and embed a policy of openness that supports Open Science, and Open Higher Education and Open Campus agendas. The processes and actions driving these objectives will establish EUTOPIA as a model European University alliance fit for 21st-century education, research and place-shaping relevance, contributing to strengthening European values and identity and increasing global competitiveness in the European Higher Education Area. EUTOPIA will actualise this model through distinctive, daring and driven actions.A 3-year realisation plan involving strategy development, development and implementation of instruments, and pilot cases will test these objectives. The plan establishes governance and sustainability structures, and develops tested mechanisms in Work Packages. In this way EUTOPIA will develop practices for realising a European University’s • governance structures and strategies • common learning Community • common Knowledge Creation Communities• place-making potentiality• inclusivity and equality dynamic• grounded and global forms of internationalisation • sustainability and dissemination mechanisms.At the end of the project, EUTOPIA will deliver• strategies for further progress towards the vision of a European University• instruments and tools to realise an inter-university campus• evaluation of piloted instruments driving interoperability.
EUTOPIA had set 7 key objectives, which allowed for the development and testing of strategies for the sustainability of EUTOPIA beyond its pilot phase. These objectives spread across different areas of work, including governance, research, place-making, internationalisation and sustainability. Under each of these objectives, we have developed long-term strategies and learning communities that will continue their work beyond the pilot phase and enable a development of a truly European University.
EUTOPIA's vision as a challenge-led, student-centred, place-based, inclusive alliance of entrepreneurial, change-focused universities enabled the continual work and growth across European and global regions. Through inter-institutional learning strategies including a EUTOPIA knowledge community, the alliance and its project EUTOPIA2050 set foundations for further implementation of values of inclusion and openness across its educational and research activities.
<< Background >> EUTOPIA's vision as a challenge-led, student-centred, place-based, inclusive alliance of entrepreneurial, change-focused universities enabled the continual work and growth across European and global regions. Through inter-institutional learning strategies including a EUTOPIA knowledge community, the alliance and its project EUTOPIA2050 set foundations for further implementation of values of inclusion and openness across its educational and research activities. << Objectives >> EUTOPIA had set 7 key objectives, which allowed for the development and testing of strategies for the sustainability of EUTOPIA beyond its pilot phase. These objectives spread across different areas of work, including governance, research, place-making, internationalisation and sustainability. Under each of these objectives, we have developed long-term strategies and learning communities that will continue their work beyond the pilot phase and enable a development of a truly European University. << Implementation >> Overall, our educational, research and inclusion activities have engaged over 350 academic and administrative staff and over 4,500 students and researchers, who participated in the co-creation of EUTOPIA's vision. As a student-centred alliance, we have provided mobility opportunities to over 2,000 students and staff, enabling academic and cultural exchange of information and experiences. Finally, strong cooperation of EUTOPIA institutions encouraged enlargement of the alliance to 10 partners. << Results >> Results include a long-term governance structure, 30 learning units (CLCs), Connected Research Communities (CRCs), the Open Innovation Challenge, Inclusion Manifesto, Western Balkans' workshops, student research initiatives (EURSS, ICUR) and strong cooperation with the Global Partners, who signed the International Partnerships Charter. Beyond this, we have established a number of cross-institutional working groups and encouraged constant exchange of best practices and ideas at different levels.