Between September 24th – 26th 2024, a delegation of the University of Bucharest attends the Global CIVIS Days 2024 event. Hosted by the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, this edition proposes a broad array of workshops, panels and public sessions aiming at encouraging cooperation and the exchange of knowledge both within the CIVIS Alliance as well as at societal level.
The event brings together students, teaching staff, administrative staff of the 11 member universities, decision and innovation agents and local authorities throughout Europe. Meetings within the Global CIVIS Days aim to create an adequate space for discussion and cooperation in order to consolidate CIVIS by identifying innovative solutions for the societal challenges that CIVIS is facing.
Thus, the three days of Global CIVIS Days 2024 include numerous workshops, conferences, work meetings and other activities, organized in three main formats, which will highlight the academic and social relevance of CIVIS activity, the reality of the CIVIS Alliance seen as a interuniversity space, but also the CIVIS member universities’ engagement towards society.
The organizers have also prepared a series of public sessions for the event. These are organized both Tuesday, September 24th, as well as Wednesday, September 25th 2024, and can be followed live, on the social media accounts of the Alliance:
Public Dissemination European Degree (September 24th)
Public Dissemination: BIPs and European University Alliances: A match for the future (September 24th)
Public Session: African-EU Science Collaboration (September 24th)
Public Panel Discussion on European University Alliances (September 24th)
Public Dissemination PolyCIVIS (September 25th)
About CIVIS
CIVIS is a university alliance comprising 11 of the most well-known European universities, counting approximately half a million students and over 70.000 staff members, including over 37.400 teaching staff and researchers. Their expertise, knowledge and common values not only consolidate the role of CIVIS in contouring the future of higher education, but also approach essential and practical societal challenges of our days.
The first universities members of the CIVIS Alliance were: University Aix-Marseille (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), the University of Bucharest (Romania), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), Stockholm University (Sweden) and Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Germany). In December 2020, the European Commission approved the petition to integrate Glasgow University in the alliance of CIVIS universities, as associated partner, and in October 2021, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) becomes the 10th member of the Alliance and the first Austrian university in our European family. Starting October 2022, through the official adhesion of the Lausanne University (UNIL), the CIVIS community extends, thus reaching 11 member universities.
About Global CIVIS Days
The Global CIVIS Days represent an occasion for the CIVIS academic community to meet, discuss, innovate and also to celebrate.
Global CIVIS Days is the main annual event within CIVIS, bringing together students, teaching staff, researchers and other staff of the universities, representatives of civil society, thinkers, public policies agents and representatives of local authorities throughout Europe. The goal is to connect communities, to discuss and develop common project which can contribute to the development of the CIVIS Alliance and to identify innovative solutions for challenges at society level.
Each year, the event is hosted by another university member of the Alliance. More details about previous editions, hosted in 2022 by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and in 2023 Tübingen University are available here and here.
