CHARM-EU is a European University Alliance formed by the University of Barcelona (coordinator), Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, the University of Montpellier,  Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Åbo Akademi University, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences and the University of Bergen. At CHARM-EU we work together to design and create a new university model to become a world example of good practice to increase the quality, international competitiveness and attractiveness of the European Higher Education landscape.

CHARM-EU represents a Challenge-Driven, Accessible, Research-based and Mobile model for the co-creation of a European University aligned with the European Values and the SDGs.

The CHARM-EU Vision

Innovative and flexible model. CHARM-EU's vision is to have an innovative university model which embraces the change needed to meet society’s challenges, breaking down borders and linking local and global solutions.

Challenge-driven university. CHARM-EU aims for a challenge-driven university, creating flexible, student-led educational programmes focused on identifying and solving specific challenges in close collaboration with the broader community.

Reconciling Humanity with the Planet. CHARM-EU aims to promote the common European values emphasizing the richness and diversity of the European tradition and focusing strategically on trying to rethink the role of the European universities in the world as it faces one of the main global challenges in the 21st century.

THE CHARM-EU mission

The diversity of educational systems and the differing geographical, regional, cultural, lingual, economic and historical perspectives/challenges of the eight CHARM-EU members contribute to consolidating the university of the future revealing our common goals on the path towards a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Download the 2022 mission and vision statement here