Project description
Enhancing the vision for the future of European universities
The EU-funded BI4E project aims at enhancing the existing cooperation framework amongst the eight partners from the INGENIUM Alliance of European Universities to empower them as agents of change in their regional ecosystems. It will focus on research and innovation missions, fostering increased knowledge transfer and collaboration between academia and non-academic sectors. The project will improve the capacity of the partner higher education institutions, particularly those in the widening countries, to address major challenges, including the twin green and digital transition, climate change and global problems addressed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This will be achieved through the implementation of strategic planning adapted to their needs, institutional transformation, research cooperation, fostering entrepreneurship and the promotion of international scientific careers.
Objective
The BI4E project is born out from the IngEniUm Alliance of European Universities with the ambition of enhancing the existing inter-university cooperation between the partner Universities, as well as with other entities (both international and local), and to strengthen the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) capacity to meet the diverse challenges faced by the Higher Education System and Institutions: the twin green and digital transition, the fight against climate change, the achievement of the Agenda 2030 SDGs, all of them profound societal challenges the Universities must be ready to address. The BI4E project intends to give a boost to the Alliance, making it an effective instrument to promote excellence in the partner HEIs, particularly targeted to the alliance members in the widening countries, the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi and the Medical University – Sofia, and involving leading HEIs from six different Member States.
This BI4E project is particularly focusing on the research and innovation missions, completing the strategic and operational capacities of the partners, especially those from the widening countries.
BI4E activities will directly touch six out of the seven “transformation modules” proposed by the Policy Report ‘Towards a 2030 Vision on the Future of Universities in Europe’.
The project will improve HEI capacity to address major challenges, through the implementation of strategic planning adapted to their needs, institutional transformation, cooperation in terms of research, fostering entrepreneurship and the promotion of international scientific careers. The project will help to build closer cooperation links between the partners that will facilitate the exchange of information, knowledge and experience. At the end of the project the Alliance will be much more prepared to become a fully operational European University Alliance, in which cooperation in education and research will be carried out seamlessly.
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700050 Iasi
Romania
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Participants (7)
33003 OVIEDO
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76133 Karlsruhe
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66013 Chieti
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1431 Sofia
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76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex
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T12 P928 Cork
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54 128 Skovde
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Partners (12)
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610125 PIATRA NEAMT
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700671 Iasi
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700029 IASI
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33420 Llanera Asturias
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33007 Oviedo
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5800 Pleven
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4002 Plovdiv
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9002 Varna
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76038 Rouen
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76 801 SAINT ETIENNE DU ROUVRAY
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T12 Cork
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T12 Y275 Cork
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