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Project "SPREAD EUI- European Universities Alliances as role models - Spreading innovative results to other higher education institutions”
Long-Term Activities (LTA) in the Erasmus+ Programme
The main aim of the SPREAD EUI project is to facilitate the dissemination of experiences of the European Universities Alliances to higher education institutions not involved in the initiative. Acting as role models is a core task of the Alliances and at the same time a challenging mission. Since the Alliances have “to serve as inspiration for the wider higher education sector”, as called for in the Erasmus+ calls “European Universities”, they need facilators and spaces to fulfil this mission.
This is where SPREAD EUI, launched by four National Agencies from Austria (OeAD), Germany (DAAD), Hungary (Tempus Public Foundation) and Norway (HK dir), comes in: It will help in building synergies and sharing best practices on the European Universities Initiative for the benefit of the whole higher education community. A core activity is to establish a regular exchange between National Agencies on how they can foster a supportive environment for the alliances to share their work to HEIs which do not take part, thus fulfilling their role as multipliers.
The project is a direct result of the TCA conference on European University Alliances: “Spreading innovative results from European University Alliances to other higher education institutions” (see Executive summary and Session reports) which took place in Bergen in May 2023 and exhibited the need for support for Alliances to act effectively as role models.
Project Duration: 2024-2027
Lead: Germany (NA DAAD)
Partners: Austria (OeAD),
Hungary (Tempus Public Foundation),
Norway (HK-dir)
Planned activities
The SPREAD EUI project consists of events, surveys and analysis as well as of the establishment of a structured dialogue
NA meetings
Informal NA meetings with interested NAs (twice a year, in presence and online)
Surveys and papers
Survey on non-alliances HEIs necessities (2024)
Overview on possible benefits/transformational deliverables of Alliances (2024 or 2025)
Analysis: Re-inforcing links between NAs, Alliances and non-Alliances HEIs and exploring the potential of transformative impact (2026)
Recommendations for the successful transfer of results
Conferences
Putting it into practice: Spreading innovative results from European Universities alliances to other higher education institutions”, 20-22 October 2025, Bonn, Germany
Final conference (2027)
Networking and Dissemination
Setting up a coordinated dialogue among NAs, Commission and EACEA
Dissemination activities
Results/Outputs
Survey
The Europe-wide survey highlights the needs and expectations of universities outside the alliances with regard to the European Universities initiative.
NA staff meetings on European Universities (as role models)
The 3rd informal online National Agencies (NA) meeting on May 22, 2025, convened approximately 50 participants, including representatives from 23 NAs, the European Commission and other stakeholders. The primary focus was to exchange insights on the European Universities Initiative and its relevance for HEIs not (yet) involved.
The meeting provided a comprehensive overview of the current progress of the LTA “SPREAD EUI” and presented initial findings from a survey addressing the needs of higher education institutions not involved in the EUI. Additionally, the meeting fostered continued dialogue on NA activities linked to the European Universities Initiative. Participants were also informed by the European Commission on the latest advancements regarding European Universities.
Potential synergies between EUI-related support projects were explored and discussed. The meeting concluded with updates and discussions regarding the forthcoming LTA conference, scheduled to take place in Germany in October 2025.
Presentations und Documents
Programme
State of Play of the LTA – Current activities
Beate Körner, NA Germany (DAAD)
Update on Recent Developments on European Universities
Ioana Dewandeler, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
Results of the survey on necessities of HEIs not engaged in the EUI
Bettina Ugrósdy-Beregi, NA Hungary and Edith Böder, NA Germany (DAAD)
Update on the planned overview of transformational outcomes of alliances
Anja Olsen Moberg, NA Norway
Recent Updates from NAs: How do NAs support European Universities alliances?
Morgane Praud, NA France; Tereza Svobodová, NA Czechia; José Ravenstein, NA Netherlands
Overview of NAs’ activities related to the EUI
Presentations of related EUI-support projects
FOREU4ALL – Community of practice for European universities alliances and beyond
Olga Wessels, Head of ECIU Brussels Office
Future4Alliances – National and regional support for European Universities Alliances
Louise Watts, Campus France
The fourth edition of the informal NA Staff meeting took place on 21 October in Bonn, ahead of the conference “Putting it into practice: Spreading innovative results from European Universities alliances to other higher education institutions” that was held in Bonn on the following two days, on 20.-22. October 2025. Gathering around 180 participants, this European event marked an important milestone of the SPREAD EUI-project.
The informal NA meeting on 20 October, preceding the event, brought together 25 National Agency representatives to discuss their active participation in the conference and other upcoming activities as well as current national developments in the EUI
Agenda of the meeting
Meeting summary
Meeting presentation
© DAAD
Partner National Agencies
NA Norwegen / HK-dir
Anja Olsen Moberg
NA Österreich / OeAD
Martina Friedrich
NA Ungarn / Tempus Public Foundation
Bettina Ugrósdy-Beregi
What are LTA?
LTA (Long Term Activities) are supporting cooperation activities to improve the qualitative implementation of the Erasmus+ programme and make it more strategic. The aim is to stimulate the exchange of good practices between European countries according to the priorities set by the European Commission for the current programme generation, and to disseminate the results of Erasmus+ measures. They differ from the usual Training and Cooperation Activities (TCA) in that they extend over several years.