U.Porto is part of the Alliance for Global Health that wants to pioneer the European universities of the future

The University of Porto is working with the counterparts of Lund (Sweden), Ludwig-Maximilian of Munich (Germany), Paris-Saclay (France) and Szeged (Hungary) to building the European Universities of tomorrow, in the framework of the great challenges regarding global health for the future.

Hence, the Alliance for Global Health aims to gather and harness the potentialities of the partner institutions, following a cross-national collaboration between universities, "based on an innovative pedagogical strategy, backed by the excellence of partners regarding health and well-being", as stated by the consortium.

The first stage of this collaboration is linked with student, teacher and researchers mobility in the partner universities that will, at a later stage, design joint multidisciplinary university education programmes in such areas as public health, environment, food security and many other in the scope of global health.

This joint work will benefit from the sharing of human resources, digital tools and infrastructures, where the "shared governance" will enable "students, scholars and external partners to cooperate in multidisciplinary teams".

The "Alliance for Global Health" Consortium is led by the newly created University Paris-Saclay, in France, a state-of-the art research centre in the fields of Sciences and Technology, which aims to assert itself among the ten best universities worldwide.