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.
Call for applicants: Join the EELISA Student Council and represent Université PSL on an international level
EELISA & PSL news
EELISA Opportunities for
Connect to the EELISA Digital Campus with your PSL login information. The Digital Campus is an online platform that lets you discover the activities and opportunities organized by our European university and other Alliance Members. Login with your Université PSL username and password.
Current calls for proposals
Concours scientifique étudiant - Scientific Student Competition - register before February 28! The EELISA Scientific Student Competition is back, a unique opportunity to present your research to the European community and network with other researchers and experts. The competition will close with an awards ceremony to recognize the most outstanding papers and the most innovative research contributions.
This year, five students from Université PSL will be selected to participate in the event, held at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on May 21-22, 2026.
For more information : https://psl.eu/actualites/universite-europeenne-eelisa-jeunes-chercheurs-participez-au-concours-scientifique
7th Joint Call - Ready for a chance to put your ideas into motion? With the 7th EELISA European University Joint Call, Université PSL Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral students can apply for funding to develop joint inter-institutional activities within the framework of EELISA Communities. Your idea or project could be funded with up to €12,000. Learn more about the Joint Call and how to apply here: https://eelisa.eu/7-joint-call/
Current calls for proposals
7th Joint Call - With the 7th EELISA European University Joint Call, Université PSL teaching staff, faculty and researchers can apply for funding to develop joint inter-institutional activities within the framework of EELISA Communities. Your idea or project could be funded with up to €12,000. Learn more about the Joint Call and how to apply here: https://eelisa.eu/7-joint-call/
Discover Ethos + Tekhné, a 5-day training session financed during the 3rd Joint Call: https://psl.eu/agenda/ethos-tekhne-new-generation-ai-researchers
EELISA Podcast - Rethinking the Classroom : Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusive Learning
With Mattias Mano, head of Université PSL's Teaching Innovation Center, and Dorothée Butigieg, English teacher at the Ecole normale supérieure, Deputy Vice President of Undergraduate Programs, and in charge of equal opportunities.
Listen to the episode here.
EELISA – visions of the future
The ambition of the EELISA - European Engineering Learning Innovation & Science Alliance is: to define and implement a common model of European engineer rooted in society, with an increased inclusiveness, cross-disciplinarity and commitment.
Priorities
- Re-inventing the “European engineer” and define a european degree.
- Democratizing engineering education.
- Evolving interdisciplinary engineering learning.
- Encouraging knowledge, skills and technology transfer.
- Fostering inclusiveness and diversity.
- Making a real impact on society following the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs.
Implementation
EELISA aims at creating a common European degree in engineering. For this purpose, EELISA will train a new generation of engineers, who can combine top technological skills with the needs of society in a sustainable development perspective. The engineers will become highly qualified and also committed to contributing to make the EU a fair and prosperous society with a sustainable economic model. The engineers will be able to work in interdisciplinary, multilingual and diverse pan-European environments. The cross-disciplinary input aims to improve the reflection on engineering practice, and also to develop any other education course stemming from engineering training.
Thanks to EELISA, students will have many more opportunities for mobility or dual degrees to hone their curriculum. EELISA will also provide opportunities for teachers and researchers to adapt, change and create courses.
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.
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.
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.
Toolbox: EELISA, a lever for education and research at PSL
The EELISA research themes cover all areas of knowledge, the seed funding available and the complementarities with the Horizon Europe programme.
Minutes of the workshop held on 18 January 2024
EELISA offers short mobility opportunities, tools for recognising mobility and schemes to promote inclusion.
Minutes of the workshop held on 18 January 2023
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.
