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From pilot to policy: European university alliances and their contribution to the European research area
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The European Universities Initiative (EUI) groups universities into transnational alliances, yet evidence of their contribution to the European Research Area (ERA) remains limited. This paper analyses 301 outputs from 32 SwafS-funded alliances, coding each by transformational module, activity, audience and ERA action to visualise frequencies and co-occurrences. A managerial core dominates: almost half of all tags concern Action 13 (Empowering HEIs) and Action 17 (Research Management) via joint strategies, offices and shared infrastructures. Capacity building and Open Science (Actions 4 and 1) are prominent; international cooperation (Action 9) is enabled by common agendas and networking tools. Gender equality, academic freedom and research-assessment reform surface only sporadically, and several actions are absent; audiences skew toward managers and established academics. Policywise, the EUI acts a lever to operationalise ERA priorities, but it requires clearer mandates for outward engagement, cross-instrument coordination and structured links to national authorities to translate coordination into system-level change.
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