5 universities - 3 countries - 1 campus

Eucor – The European Campus is a trinational alliance of five universities in the Upper Rhine, a border region between Germany, France and Switzerland. Its members are the universities of Basel, Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, Strasbourg, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Together, these institutions crystallise the skills of some 17,000 researchers, 9,900 doctoral candidates and 120,000 students in a region that is economically strong and research intensive in the heart of Europe. Their aim is to build a scientific space with a clearly defined profile, without walls or borders and with international outreach.

Eucor – The European Campus is the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) established by higher education institutions. This enables the universities to develop a joint strategy in research and teaching and to create overarching structures for science in the Upper Rhine region. The aim is to promote cross-border studying, teaching and research.

The University of Freiburg was founded in 1457 and has an excellent reputation regarding studies, teaching, research and continuing education. Twenty-three Nobel Prize winners have researched, taught and studied at the university. That it receives 220 million euros in external, third-party funding every year demonstrates its strength in research. As a comprehensive university, the University of Freiburg offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees as well as postdoctoral lecture qualification in all important areas of study: the humanities, economics, natural sciences, life sciences, engineering, medicine, law and theology. More than 24,000 students are enrolled at the university.

Thanks to its broad spectrum of disciplines, the University of Freiburg offers optimum conditions for excellent research in its eleven faculties and central research institutes. Its current partnerships with research institutions that are not affiliated with the university, like the Max Planck Institutes and Fraunhofer Institutes in Freiburg, and with regional companies are another foundation for many successful collaborative projects.

Researchers from various disciplines work together on a single topic in the university’s seventeen research centres, more than 100 academic units in its faculties and its numerous collaborative research centres. From medieval studies, the research of renewable energies, materials science, all the way to the life sciences: researchers profit from this shared infrastructure. In their projects, they also go beyond the university’s borders and cooperate with national and international partners. Thanks to its international reputation, the university is also able to recruit excellent researchers from all over the world. Eighteen percent of its students are from abroad. With more than 500 partner universities and programmes as well as the Alumni Freiburg association, the University of Freiburg has a first-rate international network at its disposal.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is positioned as “the Research University in the Helmholtz Association”. It creates and transmits knowledge about society and the environment and prides itself on delivering outstanding results from basic research to applied research in natural sciences, engineering, economics, the humanities and social sciences. It makes a significant contribution to the global challenges facing society in the areas of energy, mobility and information. Its central missions are research, teaching and innovation. With some 9,200 employees and 22,000 students, the KIT is one of the largest scientific institutions in Europe.

Through its research-oriented curricula, it prepares its students for assignments with responsibility in society, economics and science. Through its innovation activity, it makes the link between knowledge and application for the benefit of society, economic prosperity and the preservation of our natural resources. KIT is one of the German universities of excellence.