A University Partnership for Acceleration of European Universities 

Following the Greek concept of the Agora, the project seeks to build a shared space, a platform where all stakeholders can give and consume acceleration services and, at the same time, contribute their knowledge and expertise.

The University Partnership for Acceleration of European Universities (aUPaEu) project has received 3.4 million funding from the European Commission in the framework of the European Research Area call (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01) for the integration and implementation of acceleration services. The project started in January 2023 and will end in December 2027.

aUPaEU’s goal is to provide a methodology to speed the convergence of frameworks, methods, and goals of scientific research and innovation on a European continental scale.

aUPaEU's ultimate purpose is to develop methodologies, sustainability plans, coaching services, and tangible digital technologies to give an acceleration agora. HEIs, university networks, and alliances will achieve integrated, shared, and long-term R&I transformations through this accelerated agora. These transformations are intended to focus on six major areas of the HEI transformation agenda: capacity, infrastructure, and resource sharing; researcher career attractiveness; collaboration with R&I ecosystem actors; open science; societal outreach; and gender equality.

The aUPaEU project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No  101095314.