ECIU University is proud to help realise the transformative potential of the European Universities Initiative
On 24 January 2025, the Report on the Outcomes and Transformational Potential of the European Universities Initiative has been published by the European Commission. Being mentioned 97 times throughout the report, shows the impressive share and number of best practices and achievements of ECIU University.
The four main success stories that are highlighted with a dedicated box explaining the practice, are about ECIU’s digital platform and XR Campus (an example of a shared resource and facility, box 12, p. 133), our micro-credentials journey (an example of joint education provision and mobility, box 45, p. 187), our Gender Equality and Diversity Strategy (an example of impact on society and economy, box 57, p. 206), and our Challenges and Local Partnership Areas (another example of impact on society and economy, box 63, p. 217). These are all examples we are very proud of.
The report itself is a token of proof of the work of alliances in the past years, presenting the strengths, achievements and the progress of the European Universities initiative so far. It also identifies remaining aspects to be addressed and provides policy orientations to sustain success of the initiative in the long-term.
The report shows a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data, best practices and serves as a benchmark how ECIU University performs compared to other alliances. In the field of new joint educational activities offered by the alliances Table 5 (page 166) shows that ECIU University developed 82% (namely 355) of all (431) short courses leading to micro-credentials, and 27% (namely 141) of all (528) challenges that were offered by the 39 alliances that were studied for this report (data is from October 2023).