Announcing the results of the 1st EELISA Joint Academic Call

Launched for the first time this April with a budget of over 250 000 euros, the Joint Academic Call puts into practice the EELISA Joint Academic Roadmap by supporting the development of innovative academic offerings.

The first EELISA Joint Academic Call brought together researchers and academics from across the Alliance, who submitted a wide range of high-quality proposals for this pilot initiative. As a direct application of the  EELISA Joint Education Roadmap, the Alliance’s shared academic strategy to strengthen mobility, recognition, and joint educational development across partner institutions.

Initiated by the EELISA Governing Board, the roadmap provides a structured framework to guide academic cooperation across the Alliance, embedding EELISA into existing academic programmes. It aligns closely with the broader ambitions of the European Universities initiative, fostering more integrated curricula, facilitating student mobility — both physical and virtual — and advancing common approaches to recognition and programme development.

Designed to support the roll-out of concrete academic pilots that can be implemented, recognized, and potentially replicated across the Alliance, the Joint Academic Call covered pairings of existing courses, joint courses, micro-credentials, alignment of existing degrees with the EELISA European Engineer Profile, and the creation of joint degrees. Three proposals for new joint degrees were approved, 14  detailed new course pairing frameworks, 10 included Joint Courese, 5 Micro-credential programmes and another 3 Alingning Degrees. All supported actions will not only enhance the Alliance’s academic offer but also increase mobility opportunities for students from all EELISA member institutions.

The wide participation of EELISA members and diversity of applications, along with the strong quality of proposals, highlight the success of this first call, and hint at the growth in cross-institutional offerings to come.