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European Universities Initiative - FORTHEM Alliance
The University of Burgundy is a member of the European University FORTHEM Alliance (Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility) with eight other universities:
- Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany,
- University of Jyväskylä in Finland,
- University of Latvia in Latvia,
- University of Opole in Poland,
- University of Palermo in Italy,
- University of Valencia in Spain,
- University of Agder, in Norway,
- Lucian Blaga university of Sibiu, in Roumania.
The European Universities initiative is one of the key flagship actions of the EU, working to construct the future of the European Education Area. It brings together groups of universities around Europe to create alliances, such as FORTHEM, in order to sustainably build up ambitious cross-border cooperation in the form of a European Campus for education, research and innovation. This goes far beyond student and staff mobility, by favouring international interactions on a daily basis, in all domains of university life.
FORTHEM was one of the first 17 alliances selected and set up in 2019. As a pioneering experience, its mission is to imagine new forms of cooperation, working to "bring Europe home" into every classroom, share and build on innovative best practices, and construct a model for the European Universities of the future.
- Democratize international opportunities for the students of the alliance during their academic career.
- Develop an institutional framework for permanent and integrated collaboration between the member institutions of the alliance and encourage staff mobility.
- Build together a "European Campus", allowing physical, virtual and hybrid forms of mobility and to increase the number of joint study programs.
- Encourage multilingualism through various linguistic resources.
- Address different societal challenges and to promote the approach of an open society for tomorrow’s European citizens, who will develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking, creativity, self-learning, intercultural communication abilities …and so on.
- Bring innovation to the education system and strengthen the links between education, research and innovation.
- Involve socio-economic partners as well as our citizens into the alliance’s actions, because, as its name suggests, FORTHEM is made for them: for our students, for our staff, for our partners and our local communities.
- Contribute to the social, economic and educational development of our regions and beyond.
In order to achieve its objectives, the FORTHEM Alliance is structured around 3 main aspects.
The aim is to promote mobility but also to develop new forms of mobility. This innovative form will be made possible thanks to the digital academy. These new forms of mobility will involve all members of the university: students, teachers and administrative staff.
The FORTHEM alliance has set up 9 Labs (expert teams) on seven different themes in order to answer the societal challenges that we currently face:
- Food Science;
- Experience Europe;
- Diversity and Migration;
- Plurilingualism at school and in higher education;
- Digital transformations;
- Climate and resources;
- Resilience, quality of life and demographic change ;
- Cultural heritage ;
- Art and aethetics in contemporary society.
They are all made up of researchers, students and external partners. Each partner university is responsible for one of these themes. These Labs will allow to set up international actions through many different disciplines, in order to establish research projects and networks (arranging conferences, extensive research works, coordination of PhDs, etc.).
This axis promotes and supports the students’ civic engagement with the help of student associations as well as of the staff from the professional integration services, within the universities. It also aims to put socio-economic actors in touch, on an interregional level.
FIT FORTHEM, a new research-oriented project
As part of the FORTHEM Alliance, a new project was launched in early 2021, addition to the actions that were already in place. FIT FORTHEM (Fostering Institutional Transformation of research and innovation policies in European Universities) aims to focus the partners’ thoughts and actions on collaboration in the research and innovation field, while seeking to achieve a common strategy in these areas. This new project falls within the harmonization policy that we aim for, in order to standardize the Higher Education and the European Universities Initiative, within the European Union. This will offer students, researchers and staff a true collaborative research environment.
How to get involved in the European Universities initiative through the FORTHEM Alliance or take advantage of its actions?
Anyone can get involved in our alliance’s projects.Private companies: you can offer internships for the international students from our alliance which will bring you new ideas and a European dimension to your daily activities; you can cooperate with our research laboratories and be part of an international network of companies.
Public service (town halls, schools, etc.): you can disseminate information about the FORTHEM Alliance to your various audiences, but also organize events with us to promote the Alliance, put us in contact with other potential partners, welcome international interns and join in on a project carried out by our Labs.
Associations: with our students, you can develop a civic engagement project linked to one of the 17 objectives of the United Nations to transform and improve our world.
Media: you can help us to make the FORTHEM Alliance known to different audiences and offer internships for international students of the alliance.
Research centers: join us on the various research projects.
Individuals: join our civic engagement projects through local associations, respond to surveys conducted as part of our research activities, take advantage of our online courses that will be developed as part of the Digital Academy.You have the ability to do a short stay (all expenses paid) within the FORTHEM partner universities, but also access online courses, language courses, have an exchange semester, get involved in societal involvement projects, access the internship database in our partner universities’ regions…and so on. You can find all the details about the opportunities offered to you on the Alliance's website.
There are new cooperation and research perspectives for teacher-researchers, you can participate in thematic projects depending on your profession for administrative staff, you can also access online trainings and do short stays abroad for all staff...
Find all the details on how to get involved in alliance projects on the Uiversity of Burgundy intranet and on the alliance's website.
More information
- Visit the FORTHEM Alliance website.
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Rankings
The University of Burgundy is among the top universities in several prominent international rankings (based on different indicators that assess the quality of our research).
Rankings
Classement de Shanghai (2017)The University of Burgundy is in the top 701-800th place in the ARWU (Shanghai) Ranking 2017.
The ARWU Ranking is concerned only with research results. More than 1,000 universities worldwide are compared. The main criteria for inclusion are the number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals awarded to staff and alumni, the number of researchers at the university who have high citation scores, the number of papers published in Nature and Science, and the number of publications referenced in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index.
Leiden Ranking (May 2017)Ranked 649 out of 902 higher education institutions from 54 countries in 2017.
Ranked 18 out of 24 selected French institutions. The Leiden Ranking charts academic performance, using a group of refined bibliometric indicators. Our university was already ranked in 2014 and 2015.
Times Higher Education (2017)The University of Burgundy congratulates our Federal Research University, the Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), which is 501-600th in The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking in 2017. UBFC is ranked 23 out of 27 selected French higher education institutions.
Research at the University of Burgundy is divided into six major areas :
1. Food and Environment
2. Health and Molecular Engineering
3. Photonics and Advanced Materials
4. Learning and Care
5. Heritage and Territories
6. Vine and Wine.
* 27 Research Units, 13 of which are joint research units (UMR) certified by CNRS, INRA or INSERM.
* 1 federative structure: the School of Humanities (MSH Dijon)
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History
The University of Burgundy's roots run deep within the history of France. uB's origins date back to the French monarchy, with the founding of the Dijon faculty of law in 1722, at the instigation of King Louis XV of France.
After the French Revolution, between 1805 and 1809, Emperor Napoleon I of France founded the faculties of Science, Arts and Medicine, at the heart of Dijon.
In the 1950's - over 150 years later - the entire University and its new faculties settled on the beautiful current campus, situated at the doors of the city centre.
Over the past 20 years, five other campuses have been created all across Burgundy. Each one of them contributes to making uB the leading higher education and research institution in the region.
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Maison de l'université
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International Policy
Strengthening our international policy is a core component of the University's long-term strategy.
Our international strategy is based around:
- the development of interuniversity cooperation;
- the internationalisation of university programmes;
- the promotion of incoming and outgoing student mobility;
- welcoming international students who come to uB to study as degree-seeking students;
- welcoming international professors and researchers;
- mobility of teaching and administrative staff.
Erasmus+ charter for higher education and the declaration detailing the Erasmus strategy.
Co-funded by the European Union
International Partners
With over 300 European and worldwide partners, the University of Burgundy has made the internationalisation of its teaching and research missions a main focus for many years.
The University has prioritised developing relationships with Asia (China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam) and Eastern Europe (most notably new members of the European Union).
In addition, bilateral cooperation ties developed during the 20th century have made many joint bachelor, master and PhD degrees possible, such as with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. In some cases, these partnerships involve a third academic partner.
uB also maintains partnerships in many other parts of the world where there is a particular scientific interest. Some notable examples include Mexico for its automobile industry, Brazil for viti- and viniculture, and Niger for earth sciences.
- Take a look at the list of our international partners.
Arranging a project
Are you a lecturer-researcher from the University of Burgundy with an international project in mind?
From a simple student exchange to the creation of an entire international cooperation programme with a foreign university, the Interuniversity cooperation service at the International Office is available to help you with the realisation, arrangements and presentation of your project to the authorities at the University of Burgundy.
You are an organization external to the University
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