EELISA: European Engineering Learning Innovation & Science Alliance
Université PSL joined the European Engineering Learning Innovation & Science Alliance (EELISA), an alliance of nine European institutions, in seven countries, that share a common vision to define and implement a common vision of the European Higher Education and Research. Our mission is to bridge engineering, science and the humanities to build equitable, sustainable and digital societies.
EELISA & PSL news
EELISA Opportunities for
Calls for Projects
Log on to the EELISA Digital Campus, a digital platform that allows you to discover and register for activities and opportunities organized by EELISA and Alliance members.
Consult the EELISA PhD to find current research opportunities.
Calls for Projects
Junior and early career researchers may consult the EELISA PhD hub to find current opportunities.
EELISA Podcast - Rethinking the classroom: Challenges and opportunities for Inclusive Learning
With Mattias Mano, Head of the Innovation Teaching Center at Université PSL, and Dorothée Butigieg, Deputy Vice President in charge of undergraduate students and equal opportunity.
Listen to the episode here.
EELISA – visions of the future
The ambition of the EELISA - European Engineering Learning Innovation & Science Alliance is to bridge engineering, science and the humanities to build equitable, sustainable and digital societies.
Priorities
- Leveraging engineering, sciences, and technology, embracing social sciences and humanities to tackle the EU grand challenges, particularly the ecological and digital transitions.
- Transforming education and training towards challenge-based learning and a strong education ecosystem built around research and innovation.
- Improving European competitiveness and well-being and contribute to a more resilient and inclusive Europe.
- Fostering excellence in research and contribute to the continuum of research-education-innovation.
- Strengthening the dynamic integration with industry and business organizations’ needs following the future trends and perspectives of the global and European job market.
Implementation
EELISA aims to create a European engineering degree. Through this goal, it will shape a new generation of engineers capable of combining technological excellence with a response to society’s needs from a sustainable development perspective: committed professionals and citizens who will contribute to transforming the EU into a fair and prosperous society and a sustainable economy. These engineers will be able to work in pan-European, interdisciplinary, multilingual, and diverse environments. The interdisciplinary approach aims not only to enrich thinking about engineering but also to enhance other skill-based training or programs rooted in engineering.
Thanks to EELISA, students will have expanded opportunities for mobility or dual degrees to enrich their academic experience. EELISA will also offer opportunities for faculty and faculty-researchers to adapt, transform, and create new programs.
EELISA also offers recognized educational programs. For more information, see EELISA’s Recognition Formats.
Shared goals and feedback on best practices will further the emergence of an EELISA campus. Improving the processes for hosting and monitoring transferred students and staff will be the cornerstone to developing our successful campus. It will enable students, faculty and staff to travel easily to an EELISA partner. EELISA will, for example, upgrade Erasmus exchanges, with digital tools that will make their management more efficient for both staff and students.
Check out the EELISA Welcome Desk, a support structure for study abroad.
Discover opportunities and activities created by members of the Alliance for students and faculty through the EELISA Digital Campus.
Although EELISA is primarily focused on education, research will also benefit from the work undertaken by the Alliance: collaborations in research will also be stimulated (sharing access to member institutions' facilities; strengthening the capacity of institutions to answer to calls for proposals; working jointly on high-potential research topics).
To strengthen collaborations with research, the EELISA project is also supported by Horizon Europe, through the EELISA InnoCORE Project.
Find out more: EELISA Research Strategy.
In addition to Erasmus+ funding, PSL received ANR funding to strengthen the impact of this initiative for French universities. PSL decided to devote part of this budget to the Europeanization of its programs in line with EELISA's objectives: offering innovative mobility opportunities, better adapting programs to an international audience, and developing joint degrees. This call for proposals is funded by ANR funds and is an opportunity to create new formats that can be replicated and extended to other external partners at a later stage.
European universities, in a nutshell
Echoing the "Europe speech" given by the President of the French Republic on September 26, 2017 at the Sorbonne, the European Commission launched two calls for flagship programs in 2018 and 2019 to test several models of European Universities. In total, 41 projects, funded for 3 years, have been selected to strengthen strategic partnerships and increase the international competitiveness of European higher education. French institutions - including PSL - are well represented with 32 institutions involved in 28 winning alliances.
European universities must allow the emergence of training and research strategies devised on common missions; integrated European campuses that facilitate pan-European mobility; innovative teaching methods that promote entrepreneurship and community involvment among students.
These new European higher education and research alliances will promote the inclusion and success of underrepresented and disadvantaged groups, and contribute to regional and local development by addressing societal challenges.
EELISA has received co-funding from the European Union under GA No. 101124676 / EELISA-InnoCORE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 R & I programme under GA No. 101035811. Although EELISA is co-funded by the European Union, views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only, and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
