TruMotion stands for Trust Through Mobility. This aspect is at the heart of the alliance that the five universities sealed contractually on February 5, 2020 in Frankfurt. Together, the
alliance is planning manifold projects, programs and courses.
At the level of the faculties there have already been cooperations and
exchanges, now the management of the five universities have joined forces to
cooperate even more intensively in the future. On February 5, 2020, the
University of Lodz, the Université Lumière Lyon II, the Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore in Milan, the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki and the
Goethe University signed the final agreements for their collaboration. The
five applied for the title "European University" and thus for
funding from the European Union. But regardless of this, numerous ideas came up
in the run-up to yesterday's contract signing.
“We want to become a brand," says Prof. Rolf van Dick, Vice President of
the Goethe University responsible for international affairs, on the sidelines
of the meeting. There is already a logo: designed at the university in Lodz,
Poland, it already adorns the common documents. The universities now allied have
many things in common, many of which have to do with the location: “All of
these cities are so-called second cities. That is, they are neither capitals
nor the largest cities in each country. But they are multi-faceted metropolises
with a strong economy, strong social cohesion and a long civic and liberal
traditions, "says van Dick. And with similar social issues like high
rental prices and immigration. But also the universities themselves have a lot
in common: they are all research universities with medicine, but without
engineering - with the exception of Thessaloniki.
Cohesion and Transformation - these issues are obvious when it comes
to a common long-term educational strategy, a common (virtual) “European
campus". As a "European University", the cooperation could be
substantiated and intensified. If successful, the consortium will receive
up to five million euros available for an initial three years.
