Between January 30th – February 2nd 2024, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hosting the PolyCIVIS Conference, reuniting a consortium comprising 21 universities: the 11 universities of the CIVIS Alliance, the 6 strategic CIVIS African partners and another 4 African universities.
Associate professor Sorin Costreie, PhD, teaching staff at the UB Faculty of Philosophy, President of Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe – UNICA and CIVIS institutional coordinator for UB will represent the University of Bucharest at this year’s PolyCIVIS event. Associate professorSimona Corlan-Ioan, PhD, who teaches at the UB Faculty of History and is Director of the Centre for African Studies and head of the UB Senghor Department, will also attend the conference on behalf of the University of Bucharest.
PolyCIVIS, a new project co-financed by Erasmus+ and initiated on October 1st 2023, opens the way towards new partnerships with universities in Africa, bringing forth scientific research oriented towards current global challenges.
More details on the Erasmus+ PolyCIVIS project can be consulted here.
The main objective of the 2024 PolyCIVIS Brussels conference is the analysis of the manner in which the poly-crisis in Europe and Africa is managed. At the same time, participants have the opportunity to debate on this subject during workshops, presentations and round tables. They have the chance to share knowledge and innovative ideas whilst exploring new ways in which to improve institutional cooperation between the universities in the consortium.
The full program of the PolyCIVIS conference is available here.
CIVIS is a European University Alliance reuniting 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), The University of Bucharest (Romania), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), Glasgow University (Great Britain), Paris Lodron University in Salzburg (Austria) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 pilot-universities alliances, CIVIS reunites approximately 500,000 students and over 70,000 staff members, including 37,400 teaching staff and researchers.




