About the Aurora Alliance

European Universities are transnational alliances that will become the universities of the future, promoting European values and identity, and revolutionising the quality and competitiveness of European higher education. To achieve this objective, the European Commission proposes an unparalleled initiative which requires a cooperation between all types of higher education institutions from all regions in Europe and at all levels of the organisation, across all areas of activity, from teaching and learning to research and innovation. It is one of the flagship initiatives of the EU’s ambitions to build a European Education Area.

European Universities are expected to commit, in cooperation with their national authorities, to work towards relevant policy objectives of the European Education Area, such as multilingualism; automatic recognition of academic qualifications and learning periods abroad provided for by the participating higher education institutions within the alliance; the use of the European Student Card; as well as the Bologna key commitments (quality assurance, recognition, and wherever applicable three-cycle degree).  In this respect, the Czech government has guaranteed the supervisory and financial support to European University Alliances and engaged in refocusing the internationalisation support grants towards prioritising this European strategic partnership.