The European University of Islands, Ports and Coastal Territories (EUNICoast)

The European University of Islands, ports and coastal territories (EUNICoast) is an alliance 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. The alliance was selected from 56 applications and aims to strengthen strategic university partnerships in Europe. The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, call ‘European Universities - Development of deep institutional transnational cooperation’ (ERASMUS-EDU-2024-EUR-UNIV-1) with more than 14 million euro and the alliance is one of the 64 alliances between universities in Europe.

Alliance’s goals and objectives

The EUNICoast Alliance has the ambition to achieve the following goals:

to help build a solid foundation for the next generation of European students and citizens;
to promote a multicultural, multilingual and inclusive European environment for education, research and innovation;
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.

With the EUNICoast alliance funding, BFU will coordinate activities related to WP7 dissemination and impact and lead Research HUB2 “Blue Circular Economy, Port Logistics & Sustainable Blue Tourism”.

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