a strong partnership between nine universities developing science and innovation into a hub of excellence on Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability (SmUCS).
European values and identity by bringing together a new generation of European citizens.
a unique way of studying and carrying out research through institutional alignment and seamless mobility for all, shaping regional policies and promoting national cultures of the partner countries.
The European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability – EU-CONEXUS is committed to creating a new institutional framework for higher education in Europe that allows for a truly European way of studying and carrying out research through institutional alignment and seamless mobility for all.
The European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability is an integrated transnational higher education and research institution covering the smart urban sustainable coastal development form a holistic perspective. The thematic focus creates a unique competitive advantage for EU-CONEXUS which is well positioned to assemble and build on complementary thematic expertise from all its partners and regional ecosystems, through inter- and transdisciplinary based approaches.
Perfectly distributed across Europe, the campus covers all European coasts. Students, teachers, researchers, and staff are studying, teaching, conducting their research activities, innovating and working on a European scale.
To provide common European degrees and common European diplomas
50% mobility of students and academic personnel
A European higher education inter‐university ‘campus’ based on an ever‐closer academic and administrative integration
To integrate bachelor, master and PhD programmes which will combine the strengths in education, research and innovation
To integrate multidisciplinary, multilingual and innovative joint educational programmes
To approach education and research to business and public policy-making
To become the global leader in higher education and research in the area of smart urban coastal sustainability, with a perspective of expansion beyond the size of its founding consortium
SmUCS is a unique thematic focus that concentrates all university missions on finding solutions to global societal challenges faced by urbanised and semi-urbanised coastal areas.
This societal challenge is global in scope, since 60% of the global population lives within 100km of the coast, and the “land-sea” interface is the first area threatened by the climate transition and the rise of the oceans.
The thematic focus creates a unique competitive advantage for EU- CONEXUS which is well positioned to assemble and build on thematic expertise from all its partners and regional ecosystems, through inter- and transdisciplinary based approaches. With this focused expertise EU-CONEXUS contributes to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and to integrated holistic coastal zone management.
