University of Porto was selected to prepare the European Education Area

The University of Porto has been selected by the European Commission to create one of the first 17 alliances of European universities. This community initiative will be an important step towards the realisation of a European Education Area through consortia of Europe's top higher education institutions from different Member States.

The establishment of the European University Alliance for Global Health will increase exponentially the international mobility of students.

The University of Porto joined the Université Paris-Saclay (France), recently founded to position itself among the 10 top universities at world level, within the next decade, the LMU Munich (Germany), which ranked 32nd best at world level, according to the latest Times Higher Education Ranking, the University of Lund (Sweden), which ranked 98th in the same ranking and the university of Szeged (Hungary), included in the 601-800 best universities, to form the European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH).

The alliance that includes the University of Porto aims at managing new challenges regarding public health, environment, food security, by pooling resources and expertise of the five member universities in the fields of Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Geosciences, Engineering, Sports, nutrition and veterinary.

With a total budget of 85 million euros, each one of these 17 alliances will receive up to a maximum of €10 million funding from the European Union over the next three years to implement specific projects and "to start to show other Higher Education Institutions within the European Union the way forward".

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