The European Reform University Alliance and the European University Viadrina (ERUA)

The European Reform University Alliance and the Viadrina

ERUA at the Viadrina

Since November 2023, the European University Viadrina has been a member of the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA), a network of eight universities stretching from the Canary Islands via France, Italy and Poland to Lithuania, Bulgaria and Greece. The Viadrina is thus being funded as a "European University" and will receive 2.25 million euros out of a total of 12.8 million euros for a period of four years, with which the European Commission is funding the entire ERUA network. The aim of the European Reform University Alliance is to innovatively shape the future of universities in Europe and to rethink teaching and learning as well as research and social commitment from a critical, European and inclusive perspective.

European universities

With the European Universities Programme, the European Commission is promoting the networking of universities across Europe. As cross-border university networks, they are intended to strengthen the higher education area by pooling the strengths and diversity of research and teaching at universities in Europe.

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For us as the European University Viadrina, which sees itself as a reform university, full membership is both an honour and an incentive to contribute our European expertise as an innovative and inclusive university and to further strengthen our international research cooperation and mobility opportunities for all members of our university.

Prof Dr Eduard Mühle, President of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

News and dates

20. June 2025

Annual Summit to be set in Greece

The 5th Annual Summit of the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) will take place from November 4 to 7, 2025, at the University of the Aegean in Mytilene, Lesvos Island, Greece. This summit will bring together the vibrant ERUA community - thought leaders, academics, policymakers, student representatives, innovators, and stakeholders - to reflect on our achievements and engage in dialogue around critical topics inspired by this year’s guiding theme: “Crossing the edges!”

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20. June 2025

Call for Guest Professorship on European Value Transfer at the Viadrina

The various crises and far-reaching transformation processes in the world pose major challenges for the European community and the values that bind it together. For the European University Viadrina, this social role of universities is of particular importance. As part of the ERUA network, the Viadrina is therefore inviting applications for a guest professorship to be filled from October 2025 to March 2026.

16. June 2025

ERUA experts meet to discuss joint Master’s degree programme in migration

A group of 18 experts from seven European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) member universities met in Sofia, Bulgaria at the end of May to discuss a common, ERUA-wide, Master’s degree programme — “Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context”.