UNIVERSEH – European Space University for Earth and Humanity

The European alliance UNIVERSEH is the only European university offering an innovative teaching and research program entirely dedicated to space. Founded in 2020 as part of the European Commission’s “European Universities” initiative, UNIVERSEH brings together seven universities from seven different European countries forming a unique transnational space campus.

Through its education programme, collaborative research, and strong partnership with the space sector, UNIVERSEH prepares the next generation of space-sector professionals to tackle challenges in space exploration.

Our objectives

  • Create new programmes, courses and lifelong learning opportunities, grounded on innovative pedagogies.
  • Foster exchange, multiculturalism, interculturality and European Identity at all levels, by creating a diverse and inter-generational Space Crew.
  • Promote inclusion, diversity and sustainability, both to our student, teacher and staff communities, and to ensure that as a project we meet high standards on these topics.
  • Support entrepreneurship and innovation, to prepare our students to work on breakthrough issues with cutting-edge methods, in cross-disciplinary, intercultural and disrupting teams.
  • Develop our own path towards ‘One Entity’, as a fully-fledged European higher education Alliance, for the sustainability of our vision.
  • Ensure our University is open to the world, by collaborating and communicating with companies, and the public.
  • Cooperate with other HEIs and European Universities Alliances to be fully active in the roll-out of the European Universities initiative and boost the excellence dimension of higher education, research and innovation, and service to society.

Our values

We respect these principles of conduct, apply them in our day-to-day relations and work, and contribute to their dissemination within the UNIVERSEH European University Alliance and beyond.

  1. Sustainability: We collectively promote economic, environmental, educational and research sustainability.
  2. Interculturality: We collectively promote interculturality and multidisciplinarity in the activities of our Alliance, characterised by its cultural and linguistic diversity.
  3. Equity for all: We collectively promote the principles of equal treatment and fairness, which we apply through a common policy of respect for others. UNIVERSEH does not tolerate any form of discrimination, exclusion or harassment.
  4. Inclusion & Accessibility for all: We collectively promote the principles of inclusion, accessibility and equality for all, which we adopt in our positions, in our communication and in the planning of all our actions.

10 Must-know facts

  1. UNIVERSEH stands for European Space University for Earth and Humanity.
  2. UNIVERSEH is UNIQUE: it’s the only thematic European University offering an innovative high-level education and research programme dedicated to Space.
  3. UNIVERSEH brings together 7 universities from 7 countries:
    1. Communauté d’universités et établissements de Toulouse (France)
    2. AGH Univerisity of krakow (Poland)
    3. University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
    4. Luleå University of Technology (Sweden)
    5. Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
    6. Tor Vergata University of Rome (Italy)
    7. University of Namur (Belgium)
  4. UNIVERSEH was created in 2020 as part of the European Universities initiative promoted by the European Union.
  5. UNIVERSEH represents more than 203,000 students and 25,000 staff members.
  6. Space studies are usually associated to sciences and technology but at UNIVERSEH we includes social science and humanities as disciplines in the curricula.
  7. At UNIVERSEH, students are at the heart of our governance.
  8. At UNIVERSEH all educational content is subject to approval by the Academic Council. The Council’s decisions are based on a defined framework with a set of criteria known as the Seven Star Constellations System. To receive approval, each course must achieve a minimum of three criterias.
  9. UNIVERSEH highlights the importance of contributing to an inclusive, equitable and sustainable development in space exploration.
  10. UNIVERSEH helps students you connect with industry experts and find jobs, internships, master thesis and other opportunities with our stakeholders.