Project “European Universities Alliances as role models - Spreading innovative results to other higher education institutions” as Long-Term Activities (LTA) in the Erasmus+ Programme
The main aim of this 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 this project, 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 LTA 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
- Follow-up conference of Bergen (2025)
- Final conference (2027)
Networking and Dissemination
- Setting up a coordinated dialogue among NAs, Commission and EACEA
- Dissemination activities
Results/Outputs
NA staff meetings on European Universities (as role models)
Partner National Agencies
NA Norwegen / HK-dir
Ieva Serapinaite
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 actual programme generation (i. e. Inclusion and Diversity), and to disseminate the results of Erasmus+ measures. They differ from the usual TCA activities (Training and Cooperation Activities) in that they extend over several years.
