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 & 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 entrepreneurship living labs. Read the roadmap of future joint activities and learn how to join the hubs:
- incubators
- diversity and inclusion
- sustainability
- responsible production and consumption
- digital