Mission Statement

A future-oriented, open, integrated and research-driven European University that creates transformative excellence with all and for all.

Transforming European higher education, research and innovation through intensive cooperation and progressive integration for a just and sustainable future by

• Educating critically thinking and socially engaged European citizens who are equipped for lifelong learning and leave no one behind.
• Generating excellent, open, challenge-oriented, innovative and reflective knowledge.
• The emergence of the Alliance as a social and global actor engaged on many levels.
• Breaking down barriers to efficient cooperation.

Arqus acts to uphold and promote

• the fundamental European values of democracy, the rule of law, respect for diversity and human rights, solidarity and the pursuit of peace and justice in Europe and the world
• the fundamental values of universities according to the Magna Charta Universitatum
• the unique role of universities as open places of freedom, pluralism and democratic participation, committed to the generation and dissemination of knowledge through research, education, innovation and culture for sustainable social development
• the common understanding of higher education as a public good and a responsibility of society as a whole for individual, social, economic and cultural development
• the conviction that people and institutions are strengthened in their pursuit of the common good through alliances.

• Fruitful collaboration without barriers at all levels of institutional activity to better respond to existing and emerging societal challenges.
• Collaborative evidence-based institutional learning resulting from acting as a shared laboratory beyond the mainstream, introducing innovation in pursuit of systemic, structural and sustainable impact.
• Engaged communities of students, academics, non-academic staff and alumni in a multi-layered habitat, working together for sustainable progress.
• A co-created, attractive, flexible, challenge- and research-oriented academic offer.
• Joint transformative disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and innovation.
• Enhancing intercultural competence, global understanding and respect for diversity in all communities.