The European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) was founded in 1997 by 10 European universities. The goal was to create a European network, where participating universities could exchange experience and best practice of projects within education, research and regional development.

The ECIU at present (2006) consists of eleven members and three overseas associate partners:

European member universities

• University of Aalborg, Denmark
• Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
• Aveiro University, Portugal
• Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
• Dortmund University, Germany
• University of Strathclyde, Scotland
• Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
• University of Twente, The Netherlands
• University of Warwick, United Kingdom
• Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
• Linköping University, Sweden

Associate partner universities Aalborg University The Aalborg University (Danish: Aalborg Universitet) is a university in Aalborg, Denmark. ... Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg is a technical university in Harburg, a suburb of Hamburg, Germany. ... Aveiro University is a Portuguese public university located in Aveiro, and created in 1973. ... The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalan: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UAB) is a public university located in Bellaterra, very close to the city of Barcelona in Spain. ... Dortmund University Dortmund University (German: Universität Dortmund) is a medium-sized university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 20,000 students, and over 3,000 staff. ... The University of Strathclyde is a university in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The Polytechnic University of Turin (Italian: Politecnico di Torino, POLITO) is an engineering university based in Turin. ... Universiteit Twente is a university located in Enschede, Netherlands. ... The University of Warwick coat of arms The University of Warwick in Coventry is one of the leading universities in the United Kingdom. ... Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) is a university of engineering located in Compiègne, France. ... Linköping University (Swedish: Linköpings universitet, LiU) is a university in Linköping, Sweden. ...

• Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico
• Rostov State University, Russia
• Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey or ITESM) is a private university in Mexico founded in 1943 by Don Eugenio Garza Sada. ... Rostov State University is the university in Rostov-on-Don, Russia founded in 1915 as a successor to Warsaw Russian University (founded 1869). ... Swinburne University of Technology is a university based in a number of campuses in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. ...

External links

• ECIU website