On 3 July 2023 the European Commission published the results of the fourth call for application for European University Alliances (EUI).
A total of 30 alliances were selected in the 2023 call. 23 of these selected EUIs had already been funded under the second call 2020. The conditions for resubmission included an expansion of the current consortium and further innovative steps towards closer cooperation between the higher education institutions within an alliance. Moreover, seven new alliances were approved.
Austria is represented in ten of the 30 approved EUIs, i.e. in one third of them. All six higher education institutions that were already in an approved EUI in 2020 were selected again: the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (E3UDRES2) and the Montanuniversität Leoben (EURECA-PRO) are coordinators of their EUI once again. The University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg (RUN-EU), the Management Center Innsbruck (ULYSSEUS), the University of Innsbruck (AURORA) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (ENGAGE.EU) are partners. The University of Linz (EC2U) and the University of Vienna (Circle U.) have each joined an EUI already approved in 2020 as part of the enlargement process. The Vienna University of Technology (EULIST) and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (IN.TUNE) each belong to a new EUI.
Thus there are now 50 EUIs and in a third of them there is one of the 16 participating Austrian higher education institutions. Besides the ten higher education institutions mentioned above three higher education institutions were already positively evaluated in 2022 when they resubmitted their application for participation after their success in the 2019 pilot call: the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (EPICUR-SHAPE-IT), the University of Graz (ARQUS II) and the Central European University (CIVICA). The new EUIs with the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum (EU4DUAL), the Graz University of Technology (UNITE) and the University of Salzburg (CIVIS 2) have also been running since 2022.
The European Commission, which is aiming for a total number of 60 EUIs, is planning the last call for EUIs for the time being in the autumn with a submission deadline of early 2024.