ENLIGHT wants to empower learners as globally engaged citizens with state-of-the-art knowledge, skills, and innovation potential to adddress major societal transitions and to promote equitable quality of life and sustainability.

Our Mission

Our mission is to conduct a fundamental educational transformation. To this end, ENLIGHT aims to

• lay the foundations of an open and integrated European University System, in which the barriers for international learning, for performing research and for sharing resources are removed;
• establish a competence framework embracing new research-driven, challenge-based, and interdisciplinary learning approaches to empower our learners with the necessary knowledge, skills and innovation potential to become globally engaged European citizens.
• develop an interconnected campus providing access to flexible and high-quality international learning opportunities enabling learners to tailor their curriculum along a stepping-stone path
• to work closely with our surrounding cities and communities to transform the way in which we address global challenges and develop new methodologies for learning and research, which are adapted to the complex sustainability issues that cities and communities are facing today.

To embark on our mission and create replicable solutions we focus on five flagship areas which are key determinants of societal well-being and sustainability

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