Last week, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) together with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) published the list of German higher education institutions and universities whose projects will be funded in the "European Universities (EUN) - National Initiative" program in the period from January 2021 to December 2023. With its project "European Innovation Alliance of Sustainability, Health and Digitalization EuroInna", Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU) was the only university in Rhineland-Palatinate and one of the few universities in the field of renowned universities to win the competition.
"European University Networks (EUN) - National Initiative" is the national support program for German universities in the context of the EU pilot call for proposals "European Universities" and supports German universities in EU-funded consortia on their way to becoming "European Universities": The DAAD supports them in further expanding their existing sustainable alliances, especially in education, the development of joint focus-specific research approaches and the "Third Mission", and helps them to achieve the overarching goal: a united and strong Europe with a new generation of Europeans.
The HWG LU is part of a network with the University of Algarve in Portugal, the University of Huelva in Spain, the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Finland and the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. "The national accompanying program enables us to implement the planned measures with our partners on a broader scale and to network more closely with each other, e.g. the development of joint teaching formats and joint degree programs in the partner network, subject-specific mobilities of students, teachers and staff and the intensification of cooperation," says Prof. Dr. Edith Rüger-Muck, Vice President for International Affairs & Diversity, who initiated the application together with Kerstin Gallenstein, Head of International Affairs at the university. "The funding gives us the opportunity to further deepen the European idea together with the Erasmus partners involved and to help shape education in Europe," says Gallenstein.
The upcoming project goals for 2021 are the implementation and continuation of joint scientific event formats on the project focus areas of sustainability, health and digitalization, taking into account the respective country-specific perspectives and a regularly scheduled digital lectures, seminars and workshops in English for students from the entire partner network.
Further information can be found at: www.daad.de/eun
The BMBF and DAAD press release is available at the following link:
https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/presse/pressemitteilungen/eu-hochschulen_nationale-initiative/
Contact
Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
Prof. Dr. Edith Rüger-Muck
Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity
Tel.: 0621 5203-322
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