CIVIS - a European University alliance
What is CIVIS?
The University of Glasgow is an associate member of CIVIS - a European Civic University.
CIVIS is a multicultural and multilingual European Civic University formed by the alliance of leading higher education institutions across Europe.
The CIVIS alliance is one of the 60 Flagship European Universities and is funded by the EU through the European Universities initiative under the ERASMUS+ programme.
It brings together eleven research-lead and civically engaged Universities across Europe and connects over 430,000 students and 63,000 members of staff (including +33,400 academics and researchers).
CIVIS aims to create a unique European inter-university space for innovative and responsible teaching, research, cultural exchanges and citizen action across Europe and Africa. The Alliance aims to tackle major societal challenges of the 21st century focused on five thematic challenges:
- Health
- Cities, territories and mobilities
- Digital and Technological transformation
- Climate, environment and energy
- Society, culture, heritage.
The CIVIS community
Take an active role in designing a unique European inter-university campus
Join us on Teams!
CIVIS Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs)
Collaborate with our CIVIS partners to deliver a student course, combining online delivery plus a 5-day international experience.
Student: check out the CIVIS BIP portfolio.
Enquiries: Celine Reynaud - Institutional Coordinator for CIVIS.
CIVIS Open Labs
Conceived as open and collaborative spaces, Open Labs act as catalyst for challenge-based education by bringing together diverse groups to discuss local needs.
Enquiries: Ken Skelton - University Research Engagement Manager (Research Services).
What's On
- Join our Teams Channel for CIVIS events, webinars, workshops and opportunities
- Propose your networking ideas
- CASCADE - CIVIS Participatory research & Education Network
- Webinar series in transdisciplinarity in research & teaching
- CIVIS courses
- CIVIS MOOC
- Students: online intercultural training classes at Tübingen Universität
CIVIS members
- Aix-Marseille Université, France
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
- Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
- The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
- Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Stockholm University, Sweden
- Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
- University of Bucharest, Romania
- University of Glasgow (associate partner)
- Université de Lausanne (associate partner), Switzerland
CIVIS African partners
CIVIS has entered a partnership agreement with six leading African universities.
- Makerere University – Uganda
- Eduardo Mondlane University – Mozambique
- Université Hassan II de Casablanca – Morocco
- University of Sfax – Tunisia
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar – Senegal
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – South Africa