UNITA Universitas Montium

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UNITA brings together 12 comprehensive universities with different sizes and trajectories gathering 250.000 students and 21.000 staff. We are situated in rural, mountain, and cross-border regions across three European regions, in ecosystems sharing similar challenges and impacted by core-periphery dynamics. Together with our more than fifty associated partners and the newly established legal entity as full partner we will constitute a unique and powerful ecosystem. Building on the achievements of the first phase we will bring our cooperation to the next level, contributing to the educational, scientific and cultural progress of our regions, fostering their sustainable development, strengthening the local innovation ecosystems and supporting their transition to a knowledge-based economy, whilst promoting European integration within and beyond them. We intend to transform the way we cooperate, educate, do research, innovate, and reach out to society. Well within 10 years from now, our learners will be able to choose their personalised, multilingual and international study paths from a rich learning offer. Students, academic and administrative staff will benefit from seamless mobility opportunities across the alliance, including rural experiences. Our institutions will function as innovation incubators matching the ambitions of the European Innovation Agenda and the Skills Agenda. KEY OBJECTIVES • Develop a model for an institutionalised European university through long-term strategies for effective and inclusive governance • Build communities of students, teachers, researchers and staff through enabling policies for human resources, intercomprehension among Romance languages, mobility and the promotion of the European way of life • Develop a wide variety of shared personalised, multilingual and international study paths • Incubate innovation through territorial engagement • Ensure dissemination, financial sustainability, green resilience, impact and global outreach