Official launch of the BAUHAUS4EU European Alliance

Internal governance of the project is currently being put in place. The project coordinator has already been recruited, and the communications officer and the person in charge of the “work packages” for which our university is responsible will be joining us in March. Since one of the main challenges of this project is to irrigate activities across the whole establishment, it is important to gradually build up a ‘B4EU community’ of colleagues who contribute and get involved, who take an interest and ask questions. A number of bodies have already been set up and are at work: steering committee, student council, PhD council, academic council. Others are in the process of being set up: administrative council, council of territorial partners, supervisory board.

“To underline the university's determination to make internationalization a key element of its overall strategy for the years ahead, the university's governance has decided to create an Internationalization and European Alliance vice-presidency,” explains Jim Walker, current Vice President Internationalization.

 

The first meetings of the various teams are currently being organized, to begin work on the creation of a common digital platform, a mapping of our training courses in partnership, the prefiguration of territorial innovation hubs and exchanges on a green and inclusive campus, for example. Two institutional events for the alliance are already scheduled, in Weimar in March and the BAUHAUS4EU Forum in Castelo Branco in June 2025, to make more concrete and collective progress on all these issues, and to build momentum across all our establishments.