UNICA Days 2025 | “The role of university networks in the context of the European Universities alliances”, Brussels, 26-28 Feb 2025

Following the successful inaugural event in early 2024, we are excited to reconvene once again for the second edition of the UNICA Days, which will take place in Brussels, 26 to 28 February 2025, under the overarching theme “The role of University Networks in the context of the European Universities alliances“.

Venue: University Foundation, rue d’Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels

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The evolving landscape of European higher education calls for a renewed reflection on the role of long-standing university networks—many of which have been active since the late 1980s and early 1990s—in relation to the EU’s flagship initiative, the European Universities alliances. These alliances aim to create a unified and competitive European Education Area by promoting seamless mobility, transnational education, and joint research programs.

While networks and alliances share common objectives and, at times, appear to operate in overlapping spaces, their fundamental nature and roles differ significantly. University networks have traditionally focused on advocacy, policy engagement, and capacity-building, whereas alliances operate within more structured and goal-driven frameworks. In this context, university networks serve as critical enablers and amplifiers of the European Universities alliances’ ambitions, fostering collaboration, facilitating dialogue, and ensuring that the broader higher education community remains engaged in shaping the future of European academia.

Throughout all sessions at UNICA Days, inclusion remains a core value at the heart of our mission. We are committed to fostering conversations that engage all our members—even those institutions not formally part of the alliances.

Overall schedule

Target groups

The UNICA days are open to the whole UNICA community as well as to partner organizations, representatives of University networks and of the European Universities alliances, other European stakeholders, and policy makers.

Practical information for the participants


UNICA Days 2025 | “The role of university networks in the context of the European Universities alliances”, Brussels, 26-28 Feb 2025

University Foundation, rue d'Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels

UNICA

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