ECIU University
With ECIU University, UiS offers unique possibilities to our students: Enhance your CV, solve real societal challenges with external partners and travel across Europe!
You'll find the ECIU team on the 3rd floor of the Kitty Kielland building on Campus Ullandhaug. You can also email us at eciu@uis.no
How it works
As a student at UiS, you are eligible to sign up for an account at the ECIU University Engage platform using your Feide-ID. This gives you access to a wide range of learning opportunities, namely short courses (micro-modules) and student team challenges, offered by the 12 collaborating universities in ECIU. New ECIU learning opportunities become available in the Engage platform throughout the year.
Challenges and micro-modules
An ECIU challenge is about finding a solution to a real problem related to sustainable development. The participants work in interdisciplinary teams with students from other ECIU Universities, and many challenges provide the opportunity to travel to the host university.
Micro-modules are shorter courses that can give you extra competence in a specific area, for example foreign languages, artificial intelligence or sustainable urban development.
It is often possible to apply for a travel grant for both challenges and micro-modules.
Check out available challenges and micro-modules on the ECIU University Engage platform.
Academic credentials
Challenges and micro-modules vary in length, from 1-2 days, to a whole semester. Both challenges and micro-modules generally provide ECTS, with ECIU-courses usually varying between 1-6 ECTS.
All ECIU activities that provide credits are approved as higher education. Whether these can be included in your study programme must be assessed in each case, in the same way as other outside courses. Find out by contacting the study administration at your programme.
Individual accommodation
If you have any form of disability or special needs and are planning to participate in an ECIU-course, please make sure to contact both the host university and UiS early in the process to explore individual accommodation options for exchange students.
Please also see information regarding accommodation in everyday study and special examination arrangements if you're participating in ECIU-courses here at UiS.
ECIU partner universities:
- Dublin City University, Ireland
- Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
- INSA Group, France
- Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
- University of Trento, Italy
- Linköping University, Sweden
- University of Aveiro, Portugal
- University of Twente, Netherlands
- Tampere University, Finland
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Lodz University of Technology, Poland
- University of Stavanger, Norway
Opportunities for external partners
Are you a business, organization or public enterprise that needs assistance in solving challenges for yourself and society?
External partners are an essential part of the ECIU University ecosystem. By collaborating with University of Stavanger your organisation can access young talents from all over Europe, who come together to solve real-life challenges under the guidance of top educators.
Our student challenges are developed from suggestions by external partners. Representatives from the challenge providers take part as expert sources for international, cross-disciplinary student teams who try to find feasible solutions to the problem. ECIU challenges should always have a sustainability focus and their solutions should be of value to society at large.
Do you have a specific challenge? Get in touch through our collaboration portal (choose "InGenious or ECIU University").
Contact the ECIU team at UiS
General questions: eciu@uis.no
Project manager ECIU University: Trym Holbek
Project adviser: Julie Høivik Aase
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More information about ECIU
European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) is a network of universities in Europe focusing on entrepeneurship, innovation and impact on society.
The consortium consists of 13 members. There can only be one member university in the ECIU per country.
ECIU was founded in 1997, and UiS joined in 2012. ECIU University has received European University status and funding by the EU since 2019.
