OUR MISSION

From the heart of Europe’s metropolitan areas to peripheral rural regions, our diversity and complementarity drive our ambition to commit to a joint strategy for a transformation towards a European University – combining technology and comprehensive sciences to serve society.

Despite our differences, our collective motivation is grounded in shared values and principles.

• Equality, Inclusion & Diversity: Building an open European space where diverse backgrounds and perspectives drive progress.
• Democracy & Academic Freedom: Fostering peaceful international cooperation, open science, and transparent data for all.
• STEM meets SSH: Interlinking Science, Tech, Engineering & Math with Social Sciences & Humanities to solve societal challenges.
• Twin Green & Digital Transition: Driving sustainable development, climate action, and digital innovation without borders.
• Challenge-Based Learning: Empowering future generations with skills for sustainable employment and impactful research.

At EULiST, we combine our strengths in technology and impactful research to propose an approach that focuses on innovative, yet practical solutions that can be implemented quickly by integrating both universities of technology and comprehensive universities. This enables us to act as a model for and form hubs with other European Universities to create synergies that contribute to the European Strategy for Universities 2022.

To this end, we have defined a guiding principle and have chosen a clear focus based on sustainability: interlinking knowledge in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) together with Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) to develop solutions to the major societal challenges of today and tomorrow – notably climate change, digital transition and social cohesion. For this purpose, EULiST boosts challenge-based learning to train future generations of students, researchers, scholars and life-long learners to build a more sustainable and globally engaged Europe.

On this way, climate action is more than a unifying ambition for us, but demonstrates how EULiST will transform and prepare our universities for a sustainable future in terms of campus life, education, research, innovation, outreach and internationalisation. At the same time, securing social cohesion is both a prerequisite for and a consequence of climate mitigation, as well as adaptation. True sustainable development therefore needs to consider ecological, economical and societal goals (SDGs).

Our combined capacities will also help propel cooperation between the EULiST regions and contribute to European strategies such as the European Green Deal, through transdisciplinary European projects that will support the regions to act as motors for implementing the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. In line with the UN Agenda 2030, particularly SDG 17, our interregional cooperation will be complemented by global multi-stakeholder partnerships to mobilise and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources for globally sustainable development.