Our Mission

Training a new generation of Europeans

We need to move from a classical model of higher education where students are passive recipients of expert knowledge to an approach focused on:

● flexibility in the educational offer, enabling learners to access high quality lifelong knowledge;
● meeting the specific and constantly evolving needs of today’s working world;
● empowering diverse learners to realise their full potential.

This new model requires a deep shift away from the one-size fits all ethos of the industrial revolution, to instead provide tailored-made solutions that respond to the specific needs of each individual, recognizing their diverse and intersecting identities (gender, ethnicity, etc.) and unique personal interests, challenges and aspirations.

Insights into individual learning processes and behavioural economics, allied with technological advances, make it possible to begin shifting our educational models towards customised student-centred learning for all.

Tackling global challenges through interdisciplinary approaches

Customised learning pathways by definition cross traditional disciplinary boundaries because they answer the specific needs and interests of individual learners. In this they echo a growing awareness that research and innovation tend to happen at the interfaces between fields and, most important of all, that global questions can only be solved through interdisciplinary approaches: i.e.  the transition to a digital and sustainable development of society. This reality is reflected in the very structure of our universities.

Unlike most European Universities, EUNICE integrates both comprehensive and specialised universities in social sciences and technology. This combination gives us a unique profile as an alliance and a deep understanding of how to promote such approaches at an institutional level.