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On Friday 7th February 2020, the Sapienza University of Rome organised an international conference on "Innovative Medical Education in the Digital Era" in collaboration with its Research Centre STITCH: Sapienza information-based Technology InnovaTion Center for Health. The event aimed to create an interdisciplinary group focused on improving the academic curricula and methodologies with the rise of new technologies in health and medicine.

On 30th and 31st January 2020, CIVIS member universities met in Stockholm University to launch the first workshop on the development of the CIVIS hubs.

CIVIS representatives have begun to lay the foundations to harmonize the Doctoral programmes of its eight universities during a two-day meeting held at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) on December 12th and 13th 2019.

The first edition of the International Workshop on Academic Integrity and Responsibility hosted by the University of Bucharest took place between 9th-10th December 2019 in Bucharest, Romania.

On Friday 6 December 2019, the CIVIS European University organised “Mayors Day”, an event which brought together the eight partner universities and their local and regional entities to inaugurate the CIVIS representative Office in Brussels and discuss the opportunities CIVIS will bring to its local community.

Tuesday 18th November 2019 saw the celebration of the official kick-off of CIVIS, the European Civic University, hosted by Sapienza University of Rome, in Palazzo Baleani, Rome.

“Today’s event marks the beginning of a new chapter. Through European Universities, we have together created a before and an after in European Higher Education.” Themis Christophidou

To mark the kick-off of the first 17 European Universities alliances, the European Commission is organising an event on the European Universities Initiative on Thursday 7th November 2019.

On Tuesday 1st October 2019, we celebrate the launch of the CIVIS Alliance, the European Civic University with the partnership of eight leading universities across the Mediterranean and Baltic seas: Aix-Marseille Université (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France), National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece), Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium), Universitatea din București (Bucharest, Romania), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome, Italy), Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)

On June 26, 2019, the European Commission has announced that CIVIS would be one of the first pilot projects for its "European Universities" programme. CIVIS is proud to receive the opportunity to contribute fully to the first phase of construction of this major initiative for the future of the European higher education landscape.

The Department of Lettere et culture moderne of « La Sapienza » Università di Roma is co-organizing a summer school with the Departments of Italian Studies and of History on 8-9 July at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence (Schuman campus).

The Changing Landscapes of Classical World. Archeology and History of the Roman city and its rural hinterland.

CIVIS Board of Rectors will meet in Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, in Germany. This will be an opportunity  to further develop the project together and to decide on its next steps.

We are proud to announce that our eight universities take part in the European Universities initiative of the Erasmus + call for projects and have submitted a project named “CIVIS – A European Civic University”.