CIVIS – an alliance of partners throughout Europe

Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) is a leading university at the heart of the Mediterranean and enjoys an exceptional geographical location. It welcomes 80,000 students and nearly 8,000 staff on five campuses.

AMU is one of the largest French-speaking universities and is structured around six major sectors: Arts; Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences; Law and Political Science; Economics and Management; Health; Science and Technology and a multidisciplinary sector: Institut Universitaire de Technologie and Institut National Superieur du Professorat et du l’Education. Offering custom courses is a major focus for AMU. This is why it chose to continue to expand its offer of work-study programs, provide three connected campuses, and increase its continuing education off to attract new audiences. It is also committed to promoting its students’ international mobility. It has nearly 590 partners for this purpose. Known as a research-intensive university, it is home to 122 research facilities, which enables it to conduct cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research.

The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, as well as University Technology Bachelors (BUT), engineering degrees and health degrees. The student is truly at the heart of its priorities, particularly through the customization of courses. In addition to its initial training programs, it offers continuing education programs leading to a degree, validation of acquired experience (VAE) and short, qualifying courses as well as work-study programs.

Designed in accordance with international standards, its campuses offer a high-quality university life that promotes "living together". Aix-Marseille Université offers a wide range of physical, sporting, cultural and artistic activities, as well as high-level sporting and artistic status. Its 17 university libraries are the heart of student life and its 23 graduate schools offer a bridge between training and research excellence.

Aix-Marseille Université helps the 150 student associations through hundreds of funded projects each year. Thanks to the action of the Disability Mission, students in this situation are supported in their studies and benefit from accommodations to simplify their daily lives.

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) is a public university located in Athens, Greece. Inaugurated in 1837, it has been the first university in the newly established Modern Greek state, as well as in the Balkan and the Eastern Mediterranean area. Its role has been historically and socially decisive for education and promotion of cultural life in the country and beyond. NKUA is a research university and, as a leading higher education institution since its foundation, it aims to advance knowledge and educate students in sciences and arts that will best serve the nation and the community of the twenty first century.

Committed to innovation and academic excellence, NKUA seeks to infuse each member of its academic community with the passion of research and knowledge gain. The university encourages cultivation of creativity, maturation of social and cultural sensibilities as well as critical thinking, by supporting free and open dialogue and a culture of integrity and diversity.

When inaugurated, it comprised four Schools; Theology, Law, Medicine and the School of “Philosophy and Other Fundamental Studies” (which included applied sciences and mathematics). For the academic year 2022-23, the NKUA offers 41 undergraduate programs as well as 224 postgraduate programs leading to a Master’s or Doctoral degree and 450 e-learning programmes. 33 of these postgraduate programs are taught in a foreign language. There is also the English “BA Program in the Archaeology, History and Literature of Ancient Greece”, exclusively for international students; a Medical Degree in English also operates the academic year 2022-23. 

There are more than 45,400 Undergraduate, 17,800 Graduate students at Master’s level, 9,300 Ph.D. candidates currently enrolled in the programmes offered by the University. 6.000 international students are registered in all three study cycles. NKUA has 5 University Research Institutes, 3 University Hospitals, 76 Clinics, 283 University Laboratories, 11 libraries, a University Club. It also offers the History Museum of the University, the Historical Archive and 17 thematic museums, the Modern Greek Language Teaching Center for foreigners, and the Foreign Languages Teaching Center where 25 languages can be studied and special programs are available in language, translation, and science of law or medicine. 1,666 people work at NKUA as academic staff, and there is an additional teaching and laboratory staff of 430 and an administrative staff of 1,097 employees. 

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Choose the University of Bucharest and you will gain the knowledge and experience that will prepare you for a lifetime of success. With a history of over 150 years of confirmed prestige, the University of Bucharest is a central player in Romanian and European higher education, permanently engaged in a process of adaptation and internationalization, open to multiculturalism and diversity, and fun.

The University of Bucharest gathers 19 faculties, with 97 undergraduate programs, 215 master’s programs, 9 didactic master’s programs, 21 doctoral schools in specific fields and a school for interdisciplinary doctoral studies, and more than 50 affiliated institutes, departments and research centers. Here you will get to discover a dynamic and inclusive academic milieu, student-centered and defined by creativity, innovation, and collaboration. You will have the possibility to access numerous mobility opportunities and exchanges of experience.

Currently, there are about 31,600 students enrolled at the University of Bucharest. 1,285 teachers are working here as well as about 640 members of adminstrative staff.
The University of Bucharest is the heart of a cosmopolitan city, where you can find numerous museums,  memorial houses, theatres, cinemas, libraries, and art galleries. Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is a welcoming city, extremely effervescent from a cultural and artistic point of view. It will constantly entertain you with festivals, conventional and unconventional events, experimental shows, book launches, and exhibitions. While walking through the Old Center, you will discover that the city that never sleeps. You will find plenty of possibilities to spend quality free time. You can take part in the most popular festivals and concerts of the year, watch movies in cinemas or open air, attend unique theatre shows, or you can simply grab a coffee and daydream in the park. And not far from the city, if you are passionate about nature and sports, interesting experiences await you, such as climbing, mountaineering or parachuting.

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The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), founded in 1834, has 12 faculties that cover all the disciplines. It offers almost 40 undergraduate programmes and 250 graduate programmes and has 20 doctoral schools with almost 1,600 PhDs in progress. As a French-speaking university, most of the courses at the ULB are delivered in French. However, a growing number of Master degrees are partly or entirely delivered in English. Actually, there are 23 Masters fully taught in English.
38,000 students are enrolled at the ULB, the university has about 3,600 researchers and teachers and the total number of staff amounts to 8,686.
As a multicultural university with one third of students and researchers from abroad, international relations are a daily reality for the Université libre de Bruxelles, just like in the city of Brussels itself, one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. The ULB has numerous agreements, collaborations and special partnerships with some of the world's top universities.

One of the ULB's main aims is to give its students a solid foundation in critical thinking as well as a taste for research, while at the same time catering to the needs of new publics. Over the past few years, ULB scientists and scholars have obtained 49 ERC Grants from the European Research Council (24 Starting, 12 Consolidator and 11 Advanced Grants; 1 Synergy and 1 Proof of Concept Grant) to finance research in Medicine, Mathematics, Political Science, Economics, Physics, etc. In addition, the University's Institute for European Studies is recognized as a “Jean Monnet European research centre” for its work on European integration.

Based on the principle of free enquiry that postulates independent reasoning and the rejection of all dogma, the ULB has retained its original ideals as a free institution that is firmly engaged in the defence of democratic and human values.

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The University of Glasgow’s students and researchers have been changing the world since 1451. From Adam Smith, James Watt, Lord Kelvin to today’s ‘world-changers’ working on some of the most exciting discoveries of our time, the University of Glasgow is a place where ambitious people can succeed regardless of background or circumstance.

From study abroad opportunities to international research projects, the University of Glasgow is global in outlook. The University of Glasgow is one of the top 100 universities in the world and one of the largest research bases in the UK with an annual income for research recently surpassing the £179M mark. The University of Glasgow’s #TeamUofG community brings together staff and students from over 140 countries and works collaboratively with some 200 institutions around the world. There are about 28,000 students enrolled at the University of Glasgow, the number of staff is a total of 8,000, including more than 3,400 in research and teaching.

The University’s established Glasgow Research Beacons bring together cross-disciplinary areas of world-class research to make the world a better place by finding life-changing solutions in areas such as addressing inequalities, cultural and creative economies, precision medicine and chronic diseases, one health, future life and the nano and quantum world. These areas of distinctiveness are drivers for innovation whilst the University’s £1 billion Campus Development programme will create spaces and opportunities for world-changing research, teaching and education, as well as a vibrant community hub and centre for public engagement.

Students, on a comprehensive range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree programmes, enjoy living and working in a world-class institution and city.

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The University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland was founded in 1537. Focusing on the human and social sciences, life sciences (including medicine) and environmental sciences, it now has over 17,000 students of almost 130 nationalities. 

During their studies, students benefit directly from the results of the UNIL scientific community’s research activities. With 15 Bachelor’s and 42 Master's and doctoral programmes delivered in 26 disciplines, students are able to study the subject of their choice in depth while benefiting from high-quality infrastructure in a particularly pleasant working environment. In fact, UNIL’s main campus stands in a vast green space planted with ancient trees just a stone’s throw from Lake Geneva, with a magnificent view over the Alps.

UNIL has seven faculties and conducts leading-edge research, particularly in oncology, forensic science, digital humanities and sports science. The sophisticated infrastructure made available to its researchers contributes to its attractiveness. UNIL has a total of 2,400 academic staff and an additional 1,150 of technical and administrative staff. The Lake Geneva region is also home to several research institutions, including the university hospital, within a relatively small area. This favourable environment attracts numerous multinationals, start-ups, small and medium-sized firms and international sporting organisations.

The dynamism of its research activities is reflected in its international rankings, where UNIL is placed between the top 100 and 200 universities in the world. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded in 2017 to Jacques Dubochet and two co-recipients for a major advance in the field of cryomicroscopy is emblematic of the quality of the research conducted at UNIL.

UNIL has long been aware of the importance of sustainability issues and is committed to supporting and inspiring the major social changes we need by giving its community the means to think about and shape the world of the future. It can rely on the collective excellence of its research and teaching, and the civic commitment of its members, to achieve this aim.

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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) is a public comprehensive university. Its identity is rooted in a strong social commitment through specific actions and structures that have evolved since UAM creation in 1968. About 30,500 students are enrolled at UAM, the number of academic staff and faculty is 2,600 and there is another 1,125 of technical and administration staff.

UAM’s vision easily fits with CIVIS concept: a European University alliance devoted to widen its impact beyond the academy, transparent, accountable and well-managed, making use of innovative methodologies encompassing society demands. CIVIS is very important for UAM, as UAM believes in generating a European University together with sibling partners sharing such fundamental values and aims.

All of the university’s activities are based on values cultivated along decades: the pride to be public, to be research-oriented, to have clear social commitment; to be sustainable, healthy, and concerned with the continuous improvement of education quality. UAM is devoted to the dissemination of research results not only to student education but also to the society as a whole: The university truly believes that knowledge transfer is the best tool to boost social and economic development.

UAM is internationally oriented and focused on collaborative partnership with institutions aimed not merely at assuring students and staff exchange and mobility, but mainly at building common specific projects, for education and research improvement as well as Sustainable Development Goal cooperation. UAM’s allies span from culturally and geographically closer Latin America or North Africa countries to distant East Asia or sub-Saharan Africa.

An early and increasingly vigorous vocation of UAM has been to establish a strong partnership with the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC). In 2010, both institutions were awarded the label of Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC. Located in the north of Madrid, the main campus is a green space of research and innovation, with five UAM-CSIC research Institutes, five CSIC Institutes, two Madrid Institutes for Advanced Studies – in Food Science and in Nanoscience - as well as the Madrid Science Park, aimed at nurturing scientific and technological entrepreneurship and technology transfer. UAM hosts altogether more than thirty research centers, and six Health Research Institutes (Hospitals) in Madrid.

UAM is a key partner in EIT FOOD, a European consortium focused in transforming our food ecosystem. Finally, UAM has shaped the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS) in Humanities and Social Sciences, aimed at reinforcing UAM research on societal challenges including Mediterranea- and Africa-related topics.

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Founded in 1303 in Rome, Sapienza is one of the oldest universities in Europe and – with about 122,000 students – the largest, too. Sapienza’s mission is to contribute to the development of a knowledge society through excellent research, quality education and international cooperation. Sapienza University is the workplace of 3,500 professors, 2,100 employees, technicians and librarians as well as 1,350 administrative staff in university hospitals.

Sapienza currently offers 300 degree programmes (Bachelor's and Master's) - among which over 60 are taught in English - 200 Advanced Professional Courses, over 90 PhDs and 80 specialisation schools. The School of Advanced Studies provides a programme of excellence and free tuition for the best students. Over 30.000 students come from other Italian cities, nearly 10,000 are international students and over 2,200 students a year take part in international mobility programmes. 

University services include 48 libraries (four with 24-hour reading rooms), 18 museums, the Ciao and Hello Orientation Offices, an Orientation and Tutoring Office (SOrT) in each faculty, a Disabled Students Office, the Job Soul Placement Office, and a Public Relations Office. Through the SapienzaSport Centre, the university promotes numerous cultural, social and sports activities to experience the campus, with over 100,000 square metres of facilities to practice all kinds of sports, the orchestras and choirs of Musica Sapienza, the Theatron project, the web radio RadioSapienza. 

Scientific research activity at Sapienza covers an extremely broad spectrum of disciplines, reaching levels of excellence in many areas, including archaeology, physics and astrophysics, humanities and cultural heritage, the environment, nanotechnologies, cell and gene therapy, design, aerospace, social and economic sciences. 

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The Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) in Austria has six faculties with a total of 34 study departments. Prospective students can choose from over 90 study programmes in digital, analytical, natural and life sciences, social and cultural studies, law and economics, and theological subjects. The PLUS also offers 26 subjects in its secondary teacher training programme.

PLUS is the largest educational institution in Salzburg with almost 18,000 students and nearly 3,000 employees in research, teaching and administration. The name of the university reflects its founding by Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron in 1622. Since the re-establishment of the University of Salzburg in 1962, the PLUS has developed into a modern and lively university.

PLUS students benefit from an exceptional student-teacher ratio as well as excellent further education and development opportunities in academia and research. Students can also participate in social initiatives as well as international projects and funding programmes. The PLUS works with many renowned local, regional and national companies. These partners help improve career prospects for students from all disciplines.

Apart from that, Salzburg is an exciting hub of student life. The city of Mozart boasts beautiful natural surroundings both in summer and winter as well as many events, concerts, student parties and much more.

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Stockholm University, in the capital of Sweden, is characterised by openness, innovation and collaboration. Ranked among the world’s top 100 universities, Stockholm University is one of Europe's leading centres for higher education and research in human science and science.

Stockholm University was founded in 1878 with the ambition to revitalise higher education in Sweden. Since its inception, close contact with the wider world and active exchange of knowledge and experience have been integral to this vision.

Currently, the university has 33,000 students, 1,600 doctoral students, and 5,500 members of staff active in many the scientific areas. Stockholm University offers 190 programmes and 1,700 courses in science, humanities, social sciences and law, including 75 master’s programmes taught in English. The university has a total revenue of SEK 4.93 billion (about 440 million euros).

With a global perspective and through collaboration with others, Stockholm University contributes to the development of knowledge. Education and research in human science and science in the international frontline, as well as in interdisciplinary work, make this possible. The university makes knowledge accessible to all through dialogue, participation in public debate and the development of society.

Stockholm offers everything you expect to find in a cosmopolitan city: beautiful architecture, trendy shopping, museums, theatres, night clubs, international food and a music scene that attracts stars nationwide and globally. On top of that you are met by stunning waterfront views almost wherever you go, as the city is built on fourteen islands. Off the coast there is an archipelago consisting of another 30,000 islands, several of which can be reached with the public transport travel card.

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