European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability
The EU-CONEXUS teaching, research and innovation programmes include the totality of social, economic and environmental problems and opportunities that coastline areas are facing today. EU-CONEXUS is focused on urban and semi‐urban coastlines because they are increasingly densely populated areas and very important, for inter alia, aquaculture and fisheries, energy, tourism. At the same time these coastlines are most vulnerable areas with regard to the consequences of climate change.
In 2025 the European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability (EU‐CONEXUS) will become the only European transnational higher education and research institution that is able to cover, in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary manner, societal challenges faced by urbanised coastal areas and sustainable development.
EU-CONEXUS will provide cross-disciplinary approaches, vocational training, innovative, professionalizing educational and research methods, and extensive service provision in the field of blue growth.
The European University is highly integrated at all levels – educational, scientific, administrative – and transnationally organised. It also relies on intensified personal contacts to create a solid base of cooperation and understanding.
