Erasmus+ Leg Uni-GR
Leg-UniGR was a project designed and successfully coordinated by the University of Luxembourg in close cooperation with the partner universities of the University of the Greater Region. It was selected by the European Commission as part of a call for proposals for pilot projects of the ‘European Universities’ initiative and funded by the Erasmus+ programme. The aim of the one-year initiative was to test the feasibility of a new legal status for european and cross-border university alliances using the example of the UniGR university consortium.
Leg-UniGR received broad support from political actors and institutions responsible for the higher education and research sector as well as cross-border structures in the Greater Region.
With the successful completion of the project in April 2024, an important milestone was reached in terms of strengthening European university cooperation. The various stages and results of the project have been widely communicated by the University of Luxembourg at European level, confirming UniGR's pioneering role. They are described in the following work packages:
WP1: Project Management
The first workpackage was dedicated to the general organisation of the consortium and consisted in defining deliverables and target marks ensuring full execution of the project.
For more details, you can consult the Kick-off-Meeting report.
WP2: Legacy
The second workpackage aimed at developing materials that document and share the know-how and the experience of UniGR regarding the practical testing of a legal status for a cross-border university network. As a Luxembourgish non-profit association UniGR has had its own legal form since 2015 (asbl).
The results of this work can be retraced in the following documents:
- UniGR foundations – preliminary outputs
- UniGR foundations
- Event "UniGR foundation event and progress towards a new legal entity”
- More information and photos of the event can be found here.
WP3: Mission Statutes
In the third workpackage proposals of statutes have been developed for a new legal entity of UniGR opening the potential to catalyse European and national UniGR funding according to its core missions.
WP4: Dissemination and Communication
Finally, the fourth work package involved the planning and implementation of communication policy measures making the project results and strategic implications accessible to other university networks as well as to a broad audience from the university sector, the regional, national and European political and administrative landscape and civil society.
The related reports are listed here:
- Initial dissemination and communication plan
- Dissemination and communication report
- Event “European alliances and their legal status – a proposal”
- More information and photos of the event can be found here.
Coordination: University of Luxembourg
Partners: University of Luxembourg, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Université de Lorraine, Saarland University, Trier University, University of Liège, htw saar, University of the Greater Region
Starting date: April 2023
Ending date: April 2024
Budget: 175.729,08 €
More information: Isabel Schmidt, University of the Greater Region, Website