Global engagement

YERUN - Young European Research Universities Network – brings together 23 like-minded young universities from across Europe, with the aim to strengthen and develop cooperation in research, academic education and service which benefits society.

Academic staff can visit partner institutions for training, research collaboration and knowledge sharing. The YERUN Research Mobility Awards encourage early career researchers to establish new multidisciplinary international research collaborations either virtually or by visiting one of our partner universities across Europe.

Since YERUN was launched in 2016, the network has established various initiatives, with a focus on education and research collaboration, PhD partnerships, open science, research mobility, EU policies, sustainability and graduate employability. 

We're proud to be part of the pioneering Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE). YUFE is one of just 17 alliances of European universities selected by the European Commission to take part in its programme to create a 'European University' by bringing together institutions from across the continent.

The YUFE Alliance is a network of 10, young, student-centred research-intensive universities and two non-academic partners across Europe.

YUFE provides students with the opportunity to study a variety of academic modules, learn new languages, and connect and collaborate with other students across the YUFE network.

Find out more about studying with YUFE.

YUFERING (YUFE Transforming Research and Innovation through Europe-wide Knowledge Transfer) aims to improve and harmonise research and innovation in Europe.

By building on the established cooperation between the YUFE partners, the main objectives are:

• to define and implement a YUFE community-engaged research and innovation agenda for an excellent and inclusive European university
• to function as a catalyst of flipped knowledge transfer
• to transform recognition, reward and circulation of talent and teams across Europe
• to make Open Science the “new normal” by creating a YUFE Open Science Strategy
• to create and enhance shared research support structures, mechanisms and infrastructures amongst YUFERING partners
• to achieve a broader impact on the research and innovation community and the society through a horizontal focus on community-engaged research and innovation
• to explore joint structures and to share best practices with other European Universities alliances to ensure towards system-level impact

YUFERING aims to transform research and innovation work through many initiatives including the promotion of citizen science and societal engagement, the mainstreaming of Open Science practices, the fostering of brain and knowledge circulation, strengthening of academia-business collaboration and embodiment in a global research and innovation ecosystem.

The YUFERING project allows the YUFE Alliance to explore synergies with the other European universities initiatives towards addressing shared challenges in research and innovation as well as formulating solutions that could enable a deep transformation of all missions of universities. The progress achieved and models developed will benefit all higher education institutions and have a tangible impact on society and economies across Europe.