Opportunities for Stakeholders

Attract the talents your community or region needs

Alliances are closely linked to their local communities and regions. In this way they can help people get the right skills for quality jobs and support companies in addressing skill shortages in your community or region. They can help in training and upskilling, enabling people stay in their jobs or find new ones. And they can help in ensuring skills match the needs of employers by innovating their curricula and equipping young students and life-long learners with the skills they need for their personal and professional future.
 

Perspectives on solving local challenges

Challenge-based activities are a concrete way that public authorities and cities can benefit from working with alliances. Alliances will take up your challenge through activities like hackathons or living labs. These are made of diverse multidisciplinary teams of students, researchers, professionals, innovation actors, and members of the public who work on real-life issues, so that their efforts are put into finding meaningful solutions. The end results will provide innovative solutions, tailored to your needs.

Examples of such challenges include
- introducing new ways of mobility in a region
 - smart city solutions sustainable energy solutions for farmers and food
- security for rural areas


Promoting local and regional development

Local and regional authorities, including cities, can become associated partners in European Universities alliances and benefit from their unique transdisciplinary and transnational cooperation. Associated partners can access the alliances’ rich and vibrant ecosystems which contribute to developing innovation and entrepreneurship in their local communities, cities or regions.

Beyond cooperation between higher education institutions, European Universities alliances foster collaboration with partnering private sector innovators and members of the Coalition of the Willing. This cooperation is already happening in hubs created between the European Universities alliances.

These hubs aim to bring education and innovation closer together through joint activities, and have cross-cutting themes such as

Read the roadmap of future joint activities (link opens Google Drive document) and learn how to join the hubs.

• incubators
• diversity and inclusion
• sustainability
• responsible production and consumption  
• digital

Join the innovation hubs

Beyond cooperation between higher education institutions, European Universities alliances foster collaboration with other partners, including civil society, local and regional authorities and members of the Coalition of the Willing.

This cooperation is already happening in hubs created between the European Universities alliances.

These hubs aim to bring education and innovation closer together through joint activities, and have cross-cutting themes such as

Read the roadmap of future joint activities (link opens Google Drive document) and learn how to join the hubs.

• incubators
• diversity and inclusion
• sustainability
• responsible production and consumption  
• digital





 

Solve your challenges

Your business can also collaborate with the alliances by asking them to help you solve your challenges, and feed into their challenge-based activities. Alliances will take up your challenge through activities like hackathons or living labs. These are made of diverse multidisciplinary teams of students, researchers, professionals, innovation actors, and members of the public who work on real-life issues, so that their efforts are put into finding meaningful solutions. The end results will provide innovative solutions, tailored to your needs. For example, you could benefit from new perspectives on how to make your company more sustainable.

Your business will benefit from being an associated partner by being part of dynamic and transnational innovation ecosystems and contribute to equip learners with future-proof skills.

Find the talents you need

Businesses and start-ups can become associated partners in European Universities alliances and benefit from their unique transdisciplinary and transnational collaboration. Associated partners can access the alliances’ rich and vibrant ecosystems which contribute to driving innovation and entrepreneurship. You can take part in many ways, including

The alliances are a perfect opportunity for your business to have direct contact with future graduates and find skilled talents from across Europe that will help achieve your business goals.

Promoting civic engagement

Civil society actors can also be involved with European Universities to promote civic engagement, allowing students, the academic community, civil society and other stakeholders to work together to address public concerns and promote the quality of the community.

Such civic activation can be done for example through challenge-based activities like hackathons and living labs, or through traineeships, volunteering or fieldwork. This cooperation also helps shape innovative learning pedagogies based on real-life matters.

Civil society actors also gain new perspectives, adapted to their context, from transnational and transdisciplinary teams, and attract the support of students at the same time.

Strong interconnected networks addressing challenges

Civil society organisations can become associated partners in European Universities alliances and benefit from their unique and transnational and transdisciplinary cooperation. Associated partners can access the alliances’ rich and vibrant ecosystems which foster solutions to existing challenges through innovation, regional development and sharing expertise and experiences. These ecosystems can also be unique places for organisations to expand their international connections.