EELISA has been selected under the 2023 Erasmus+ European Universities Call with funding of 14.400.000 € and a total budget of over 21.000.000 €. With an expanded scope, size, diversity, and ambition, in this new phase, EELISA aims to deepen collaboration in line with the six dimensions of the European Education Area: quality, inclusion and…
The Joint European Degree Label in engineering (JEDI) is one of the projects from the Erasmus+ Programme, under the ERASMUS-EDU-2022-POL-EXP call for policy experimentation in higher education. It relies on the joint collaboration of 16 higher education institutions (HEI), spread out in 11 countries, to explore, during one-year, common criterion for a potential European…
In the context of the public consultation launched by the European Commission on Horizon Europe some months ago, EELISA partners have taken the opportunity to evaluate the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and have produced the following joint position paper. The document represents the first effort from EELISA partners to jointly analyse as an…
In the current challenging global context, higher education is increasingly taking on an important role in activating innovative ways of learning, knowledge exchange, and experiences that can lead to the necessary social transformations. Thus, one of the main goals of the EELISA Alliance is to propose a compelling, implementable, and shared vision of the profile…
The ZHAW is one of Switzerland’s leading universities of applied sciences. It offers teaching, research, continuing education, and services, taking a practical and academically rigorous approach. In research and development, the ZHAW focuses on key societal challenges, with an emphasis on energy and social integration. With its expertise in sustainable development and digital transformation, the…
2022 comes to an end and opens the door to a new stage of EELISA. As the second year in the life of the Alliance, this year has meant the activation and achievement of many of the initiatives and milestones marked on paper at the beginning of the EELISA journey. The new year brings out…
Last week, EELISA representatives met in Budapest to celebrate the EELISA Executive Board meeting. This was also a chance to gather and acknowledge the main achievements of the alliance in its almost two years of existence. “The EELISA Achievements Celebration Event” congregated over 80 people on-site and over 70 more online. The session was opened…
Sophie Griveau has been confirmed for the position of EELISA Dean of Studies. She is a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry and has been an associate professor in the Grande Ecole Chimie ParisTech-PSL since 2005. She also has extensive research activity and publications in the field of electrochemical microsensors, analytical microsystems, and the development of scanning…
On the 22nd of April, student representatives from all EELISA members gathered in Pisa to meet one another and to formally constitute the EELISA Student Council, the voice of their peers in the Alliance. In this brief interview, student representative from ENPC Julie Kleinhans shares her experience in this first face-to-face meeting that has promt…
As an expression of our Alliance’s commitment to the shared values of democracy, diversity, inclusion and gender equality, one of the main outcomes of the last EELISA Governing Board, held on 21 and 22 April 2022 in Pisa, was the signature of the EELISA Alliance Statement on Gender Equality. This document, drawing on the findings…