📋 Tender Overview
The European University on Responsible Consumption and Production, in short EURECA-PRO, unites Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), Universitatea din Petrosani (Romania), Universidad de León (Spain), Politechneio Kritis (Greece), Politechnika Slaska (Poland), Hochschule Mittweida (Germany), Université de Lorraine (France), and Universiteit Hasselt (Belgium). They are a blend of nine technical and comprehensive, research-led universities from eight different countries around Europe. They share a long-standing cooperation history amongst one another and together make-up a profile that covers a wide array of interdisciplinary subjects. EURECA-PRO derives its name from Sustainable Development Goal 12 of the United Nations, the systematic implementation of which, in education, research, innovation and society, is at the core of EURECA-PRO's goals, strategies and activities. As such, its interdisciplinary composition and expertise covering consumption as well as production competences, are an ideal breeding ground for innovation and social innovation in this area. EURECA-PRO stands for motivating awareness for responsibility in every individual as well as a long-term transformation of the European Higher Education Area. It sees itself as a testbed for trying out new approaches that will change the future of education in alignment with societal development. Its long-term vision is to be is the global educational core hub and interdisciplinary research and innovation leader in responsible consumption and production of goods and resources; to be a European role model for inter-university cooperation across borders and the open integration of society into its objectives and actions.
