ECIU collaboration | ECIU university

The University of Twente is one of the partner universities of ECIU, the European Consortium of Innovative Universities. ECIU was founded in 1997 and is the leading international consortium of research-intensive universities, with a collective emphasis on innovation, creativity, and societal impact, driving the development of a knowledge-based economy. The mission is to ‘challenge conventional thinking’ with a focus on ‘innovation in teaching and learning' and ‘entrepreneurship and societal impact of research’. 

A Network of 14 universities

ECIU members: 

U-Today Special: ECIU magazine

This magazine shows examples of the way ECIU universities work, innovating teaching and research and enhancing academic leadership. 

ECIU Brussels' Office 

The activities in Brussels are coordinated by the ECIU Brussels’ Office and the Steering Committee EU Policy and Research. Head of the ECIU Brussels’ Office is Olga Wessels. 

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. Together, the universities will create, test and evaluate a whole new educational pedagogy. This will help to focus all the university activities from education, research, administration and support through to innovation and valorisation.

The ECIU University is an EU-funded European University that will create a completely new educational model on a European scale. The ECIU University gathers together learners, teachers, and researchers to cooperate with cities and businesses and solve real-life challenges.

A European-wide ecosystem

ECIU believes in a European-wide ecosystem based upon open and inclusive collaboration connecting societal stakeholders, researchers and learners to provide European answers to future societal challenges. We create a playground for solving multi-disciplinary challenges in entrepreneurial, innovative ways and provide personalised learning and career opportunities for life at the European level, enabled by a novel university model based upon co-creation.