Circle U. AISBL (Circle U. European University Alliance)

EU Legislative Interests

• European Competitiveness Fund • Digital Education Action Plan • Erasmus without paper • Erasmus+ programme • European degree • European Education Area • European Excellence initiative • European Green Deal • European Higher Education Area • European Institute of Innovation & Technology • European Research Area • European Skills Agenda • European Strategy for Universities • European Student Card Initiative • Horizon Europe / R&I Framework programme • Legal statute for alliances of higher education institutions • Micro-credentials • Open Science • Qualification and credits recognition • Quality Assurance • Union of Skills

Communication Activities

• Circle U. Gender Equality Plan (December 2025) • Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. A strategy for Circle U. (Octobre 2024) • Science with & for Society at the Alliances of European Universities. Lessons learnt from SwafS projects and ways forward (October 2024) • European University Alliances, Shaping Tomorrow's Research and Innovation (October 2024) • Guidelines for the Circle U. Gender Equality Plan (July 2024) • Creating now the University of tomorrow. Circle U. national conference - key messages and recommendations (October 2023) • Open Education Recommendations for Stakeholders (September 2023) • Climate change and student entrepreneurship: from academia to policy (May 2023) • White paper on the future of higher education, science and universities (May 2023) • Open Science - Recommendations to stakeholders (February 2023) • Diversity in the Making – Key messages and recommendations (March 2023) • The European Union and the Green Deal in the Academic World – Key messages and recommendations (November 2022) • Reimagining universities as drivers of sustainability (August 2022) • Legal and Ethical Aspects of Using Learning Analytics – From a University Perspective (August 2022) • Shaping the Future of Higher Education in a Changing World (December 2021)

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Circle U. AISBL is not formally member of any association, networks or other organisation. However, our member universities are themseves members of associations, networks or other associations, for example The Guild of European research-intensive universities, the Coimbra Group, UNICA, CESAER, EUA, IAU, CENTRAL, etc. Circle U. AISBL is leading a Work Package on policy dialogue in the framework of the Erasmus+ project, FOREU4ALL.

Organisation Members

- Aarhus Universitet (Denmark) - Univerzitet u Beogradu (Serbia) - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) - King’s College London (United Kingdom) - UCLouvain (Belgium) - Universitet i Oslo (Norway) - Université Paris Cité (France) - Università di Pisa (Italy) - Universität Wien (Austria)