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## The Universitat Jaume I joins the consortium of the European Digital UniverCity This European university alliance now includes a total of eight universities from seven countries

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The Universitat Jaume I of Castellón has joined the European Digital UniverCity EDUC, a European university alliance, coordinated from the University of Potsdam (Germany), whose objective is the structural and sustainable collaboration at all university levels, as well as the development of innovative and inclusive learning and mobility scenarios. Together with the UJI, the University of South-Eastern Norway in Konsberg has also joined, thus forming a consortium made up of a total of eight universities from seven countries that, this spring, will apply, within the framework of the Erasmus+ call for "European Universities", for the continuation of their initiative.

The rector of the UJI, Eva Alcón, pointed out that "our adherence to EDUC responds to the pro-European outlook we've had in the Universitat Jaume I since it was founded back in 1991 and, above all, to our willingness to participate — from the very beginning and in an active way — in the construction of future European higher education, and to make a contribution to a new way of approaching European citizenship".

Likewise, the Rector stressed that "EDUC also represents a strategic partnership set up between universities from different countries to respond to the big social challenges of Europe in a solid and forward-looking way. By incorporating the UJI as a partner, EDUC is reinforced by our unrivalled experience in fields such as digitalisation and curricular work placements as part of study programmes, and will benefit from our ties with Latin America".

Florian Schweigert, Vice President for International Affairs at the University of Potsdam, emphasised that "with these two full-range universities, EDUC gains two strong partners that are characterized by a distinct international orientation, groundbreaking digitalization efforts, and programs with regional relevance. They will perfectly complement our alliance in the years to come".

EDUC was launched in 2016 with six universities: the University of Potsdam as coordinator and the universities of Cagliari (Italy), Masaryk in Brno (Czech Republic), Pécs (Hungary) as well as Paris Nanterre and Rennes 1 (France). EDUC's flagship is its virtual campus, which already offers a wide range of interdisciplinary online courses and blended learning formats for around 15,000 students. Now, the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón and the University of South-Eastern Norway in Konsberg will expand the European Digital UniverCity campus to the north and south and add their expertise.

"For students and researchers, but also for the staff of the participating universities, this opens up many new opportunities for exchange and cooperation", said Oliver Günther, President of the University of Potsdam, who emphasised the great potential in the alliance for the acceleration of digitalization in teaching and research so that university members will be able to study and collaborate academically across national borders in an uncomplicated manner. "When it comes to the current call for proposals from the ‘European Universities’ initiative, EDUC has positioned itself well in terms of strategy and our two new consortium partners will make a significant contribution to the ambitious continuation proposal", added Günther.

With its new call for proposals within the framework of Erasmus+, the European Commission had incentivized the expansion of existing alliances to purposefully advance the transformation processes in the European Higher Education Area. Working with the EU member states, it intends to establish 60 European Universities comprising more than 500 higher education institutions by mid-2024. So far, 41 alliances have been formed as a result of the first two pilot calls for proposals in 2019 and 2020, with the involvement of 279 higher education institutions.

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