European Network of Innovative Higher Education Institutions

EU Legislative Interests

ENIHEI's work focuses primarily on two EU policies: - New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA) - European strategy for universities

Communication Activities

Publication: ENIHEI Report: Ten recommendations and one note on innovation in European Higher Education (December 2022) https://education.ec.europa.eu/document/enihei-report-recommendations-on-innovation-in-european-higher-education Conferences: • I ENIHEI Conference at the University of Salamanca (Spain). September 2022. https://eventum.usal.es/go/enihei • II ENIHEI Conference at the University of Primorska (Slovenia). March 2023. https://eventum.usal.es/go/enihei2 • III ENIHEI Conference at the Technical University of Gabrovo (Bulgaria). October 2023. https://eventum.usal.es/go/enihei3 • IV ENIHEI Conference at the Technical University of Aveiro (Portugal). December 2023. https://eventum.usal.es/go/enihei4 • V ENIHEI Conference at the Technical Ca'Foscari University of Venice (Italy). June 2024. https://eventum.usal.es/go/enihei5 • VI ENIHEI Conference at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST), Malta. October 2025.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

ENIHEI does not belong to other associations, (con)federations, networks or other organizations. Individually, ts members form part of university alliances, associations such as the European Universities Association (EUA) and their respective National Rectors' Conferences.

Organisation Members

The network is made up of higher education institutions designated by the European Commission for their outstanding performance in some area of the European innovation ecosystem. Twenty-eight of them were nominated by the governments of the Member States and the rest were appointed directly by the European Commission from among the members of the university alliances. The European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, at that moment Mariya Gabriel, announced the network at the first European Education and Innovation Summit, in June 2022. The members are: The University of Applied Arts Vienna University of Mons UCLL University of Applied Sciences (BE-Fl) Trakia University of Stara Zagora Technical University of Sofia Technical University of Gabrovo University of Cyprus University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice RWTH Aachen University Technical University of Munich University College South Denmark (US SYD) Technical University of Denmark Tallin University Democritus University of Thrace University of Granada Universidad de Salamanca Kajaani University of Applied Sciences Aalto University University of Caen Normandy Zagreb University of Applied Sciences Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Dublin City University Trinity College Dublin University of Brescia Ca´Foscari University of Venice Vilnius TECH University University of Luxembourg Riga Technical University Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) Erasmus University Rotterdam Delft University of Technology Warsaw University Universidade de Aveiro Transilvania University of Brasov Technical university Cluj Napoca Malmö University University of Primorska Technical University of Kosice

Additional Information

The member institution that becomes the Secretariat of the network assumes the expenses generated by the Secretariat and serves as the official address of ENIHEI during their tenure. The University of Salamanca was appointed in July 2022 as the first Secretariat of ENIHEI by the Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth, at that moment, Mariya Gabriel.