’Six Universities - One Vision’

"Six research-intensive European comprehensive universities - one vision": this was the motto of the annual meeting of the 4EU+ European University Alliance held at Heidelberg University on 4 and 5 November 2021. With the goal of mapping out further development for the transnational university alliance, approx.180 representatives came from the member universities of Prague, Heidelberg, Sorbonne (Paris), Warsaw, Copenhagen and Milan. The joint vision of the six universities is to bring about a research-led comprehensive university at six locations in Europe, which will connect students, teachers and researchers as a European comprehensive research university. "The member universities have been preparing and shaping the history and future of Europe for almost a thousand years," said Bernhard Eitel, Rector of Heidelberg University and host of the conference. 4EU+ was now continuing this mission as a transnational undertaking, he added, as the "European answer to global challenges" and as a model for an "integrated European research and education area". The 4EU+ University Alliance brought together some of the oldest and most research-intensive universities of Europe, the Rector continued. There have already been over 200 Erasmus+ projects at the six universities with their approx. 286,000 students.