The ECIU Foundation
The European Consortium of Innovative Universities, ECIU, was founded in 1997 and is the leading international consortium of research-intensive universities, with collective emphasis on innovation, creativity, and societal impact, driving the development of a knowledge-based economy. University of Twente is one of the partner universities. The mission is to ‘challenging conventional thinking’ with a focus on ‘innovation in teaching and learning' and ‘entrepreneurship and societal impact of research’.
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Member universities
ECIU University
Part of the ECIU collaboration is the ECIU University which will transform higher education to become an open ecosystem for solving societal challenges, doing research and learning for life. The ECIU University is an EU-funded European University that will create a completely new educational model on a European scale, it gathers together learners, teachers, and researchers to cooperate with cities and businesses and solve real-life challenges.
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Erasmus
The world is changing and universities should be changing with it. That is the basic idea behind the ECIU's ambitious project, the 'ECIU University'. It’s a joint university involving all ECIU members and offering a completely new type of education.
