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Higher Education - European University EUGLOH

EUGLOH aims to promote cooperation between universities in the field of global health from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on scientific cooperation and academic mobility.

Group of representatives from European Universities with the Rector of the University of Porto waving in a garden.

The European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) began to take shape in June 2019, when the European Commission approved one of the continent's first 17 university alliances. The project was officially launched in Paris in September 2019, and its main objectives are to collaborate between the five universities involved in teaching, research and innovation in global health from a multidisciplinary perspective, with a focus on scientific collaboration and academic mobility.

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One of the main challenges facing EUGLOH is the rapidly changing landscape of higher education and research: the increasing globalisation of higher education, the rise of new technologies and the growing competition for funding and talent are all having a major impact on the future of universities and the way they operate. EUGLOH works to develop innovative approaches to higher education and research that are more flexible, interdisciplinary and responsive to the needs of society. This includes initiatives that promote cross-border cooperation and knowledge exchange between institutions and researchers, as well as efforts to involve stakeholders from outside the academic community in the design and implementation of research and education programmes.

In addition to U.Porto, the founding members of EUGLOH are the University of Paris-Saclay (France), the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), the University of Lund (Sweden) and the University of Szeged (Hungary). In 2021, four more universities will join the founding group, a clear sign of the Alliance's expansion: Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), University of Hamburg (Germany), University of Novi Sad (Serbia) and Arctic University (Norway).