EUNICoast

The University of Sassari is strengthening its presence on the international stage thanks to the EUNICoast project. Funded by the European Commission with more than 14 million euros, the initiative - named The European Alliance of Islands, ports and coastal territories - was selected from 56 applications and aims to strengthen strategic university partnerships in Europe.

EUNICoast is an alliance shaped by the seas, bringing together 13 universities located in an area from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, to the Caribbean and the edge of the Arctic Ocean, totaling 100.000 students and about 10.000 academic and administrative staff.

Through a proactive approach, the EUNICoast Alliance has the ambition to achieve the following goals: 

• to help build a solid foundation for the next generation of knowledgeable European students and citizens;
• to promote a multicultural, multilingual and inclusive European environment for education, research and innovation;
• and to improve the capacity of partner universities to better respond to the social and environmental challenges faced by island and coastal communities by addressing today's big issues, such as climate change, biodiversity and ecological sustainability, depopulation and talent conservation, infrastructure and health system development, migration and social challenges, and economic diversification needs. 

The goal is to develop innovative educational pathways in connection with research and territories.

With the EUNICoast alliance funding, UNISS will coordinate activities related to public engagement and internationalization and join one of 64 alliances between universities and higher academies in Europe funded under the Erasmus+ program, involving more than 560 academic institutions, in all regions of Europe.