Arqus European University Alliance
Arqus brings together students and staff for cooperation across languages, borders and disciplines.
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Arqus is a European University Alliance under the European Universities Initiative. The aim is to bring together a new generation of creative Europeans to cooperate across languages, borders, and disciplines.
The University of Bergen has been a member of Arqus since it was formally established in Brussels on 27 November 2018. The name stems from the Latin term arcus/arquus, for arch, representing the strong foundations the consortium is laying for building bridges toward a shared future, to respond to the grand global societal challenges and to advance towards deeper European integration. UiB has decided to not participate beyond the initial pilot phase, and will fulfill our obligations throughout the current programme, ending October 2022.
Arqus Member Universities
The Arqus European University Alliance brings together the universities of Bergen, Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon, Minho, Padua, Vilnius and Wroclaw.
The mission and vision of Arqus
The principal ambition of the Arqus Alliance is to act jointly as a laboratory for institutional learning for the design, testing and implementation of an innovative model for deep inter-university cooperation.
What is Arqus about?
The work we do in Arqus is structured into different thematic action lines, and each university coordinates an action line. UiB is in charge of the action line called Engaged European Citizens.
How Arqus is organised
Arqus aims for a participatory and innovative structure with a bottom-up approach to engage and include all levels. Granada is the coordinating institution.