Grenoble INP unite!

UNITE! : Grenoble INP awarded the title of European University

Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes has been awarded on Wednesday June 26th, the title of “European University” by the EU Commission for the project UNITE! (University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering), together with six other European universities.
The aim of this project is to create a transeuropean campus, ranging from Finland to Portugal . UNITE! will receive a funding of up to 5 Mil. Euro between 2020 and 2022.

UNITE! strives to innovate both in the education of engineers and in the development of a European citizenship. UNITE !’s project is also supported by la Métro Grenoble Alpes.This project unites seven technical universities renowned for the outstanding quality of their training and research: * TU Darmstadt (Germany), Aalto University (Finland), the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), the Grenoble Institute of Technology (France), the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) and the University of Lisbon (Portugal). They have all been members of the CLUSTER network (Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research) of twelve leading European technical universities for thirty years and this project is the result of their enduring productive collaboration.


Some figures for UNITE!:
  • 167,000 students
  • more than 80 EU projects in collaboration
  • 36 700 graduates/ year (2017-2018)
  • 500 millions of € in research income/year (2017)
  • have exchanged over 2,000 students in the past five years.