The URJC hosts the I General Assembly of EULIST

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

The EULIST university alliance, of which the URJC is a member, was on the verge of being recognized as a European Alliance of Universities by the European Commission a few months ago. Now, at the URJC, those responsible are holding their XNUMXst General Assembly to start drawing up the new proposal that will be presented in Brussels.

To this end, "two days of meetings will be held in which vice-chancellors and support teams organized in the 'Management Board' and 'Coordination Office' groups will participate, respectively, who will work on different aspects of the proposal," says Juan Manuel García Camús, representative of the URJC in the 'Coordination Office' of EULIST.

The visit of seven rectors of the universities that are part of EULIST and a total of 40 people among all the delegations is expected. In addition, the Assembly will serve to welcome the new member of EULIST, the Institut Mines Télecom, a group of eight French engineering schools. This French entity will join the group formed by Rey Juan Carlos, National Technical University Of Athens, Brno University Of Technology and Slovak University Of Technology Bratislava. The group is completed by: Leibniz University Hannover, Lappeenranta-Lahti University Of Technology LUT, Jönköping University, Universitá degli Estudi Roma Trè and Technische Universität Wien.

EULIST was born one year with the aim of building "a university of universities at a European level", explains García Camús, "an initiative that goes far beyond Erasmus". The ultimate goal is to achieve total mobility of students, PDI and PAS, which makes it possible, among other things, for a student to start the degree in Madrid, continue it in Hannover and finish it in Bratislava.

Something that, without a doubt, contributes to greater European integration from the point of view of Higher Education, with which the URJC is one hundred percent committed.