U4 and Tartu prepare for European University application

( 21-06-2018 ) The U4 universities (Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen and Uppsala) have joined forces with the University of Tartu (Estonia) to prepare an application for the European University project announced by the EU to strengthen Erasmus+ activities. U4 was founded in 2008 and has become a well-established and sustainable network, covering a wide variety of cooperation initiatives in different forms and fields. The U4 Network distinguishes itself from other university associations as an operational learning network for students, researchers, and management based on excellence. U4 offers a bottom-up platform for joint initiatives in education and research and a successful pool of preferential partners in Erasmus+ education and Horizon 2020 research consortia. A distinctive aspect of U4 is the intensive and structural cooperation at the level of the university management and the student bodies. Within this dimension, the four universities pool expertise and resources to initiate innovative processes and reach out to societal challenges. In this way U4 is not only a transactional network serving as an enabling platform for new initiatives, but also intentionally transformational.