The European Campus The strategic flagship project and the European future of the Universities on the Upper Rhine
UNIVERSITÄT BASEL | UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG | UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE-ALSACE | KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE | UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG
Karlsruhe
FRANCE 2,300,000,000 euro total budget Strasbourg
115,000 students
GERMANY 11,000 doctoral candidates Colmar
Freiburg im Breisgau 15,000 researchers
Mulhouse 35,700 Basel employees
SWITZERLAND
Eucor – The European Campus Universities
research institutes higher education institutions
Moreover, the “Upper Rhine Trinational Metropolitan Region” includes an additional 50 research institutes and 63 higher education institutions.
Illustration: Kathrin Jachmann, Source: Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie, Professur für Humangeographie, Universität Freiburg Eucor – the Confederation of Universities on the Upper Rhine:
The Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, and Strasbourg and the Karlsruher Institute of Technology have been cooperating in research and teaching since 1989 as the Eucor Confederation. The European Campus is the strategic flagship project of Eucor that aims to expand the alliance into a science and research area with an international reach.
The European Campus – vision and long-term goals:
a cross-border university alliance with its own legal status: The universities can submit funding proposals as an autonomous entity in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Europe.
joint professorships, joint administrative personnel, joint service departments, joint doctoral candidates, joint students, joint research projects, and dual degrees
common research infrastructures: a magnet for attracting the best young academics and international students
a model that is unique in the European research area and can be emulated by other cross-border regions
All information at www.eucor-uni.org
Eucor – The European Campus Coordination Office:
Maison Universitaire Internationale 11 presqu’île Malraux, F-67100 Strasbourg Tel.: +33 (0)3 68 85 82 95 [email protected]
Contacts at Eucor – The European Campus Universities:
Universität Basel: [email protected] Universität Freiburg: [email protected] Université de Haute-Alsace: [email protected] Karlsruher Institut für Technologie: [email protected] Université de Strasbourg: [email protected]