EUniWell – the European University for Well-Being

EUniWell (The European University for Well-Being) consists of twelve European universities that have entered into a strategic university-wide collaboration. Through collaboration within high-quality education and research, we want to contribute to an environment for the people of Europe and their global neighbours that creates opportunities for good education, social responsibility, health, inclusion, and diversity – all important factors to create well-being.

The twelve universities that are part of EUniWell are:

In addition, there is a network consisting of associated partners, including the municipalities of the cities in question, and a number of academic institutions and organisations within education, culture and health, as well as companies, that support EUniWell’s vision.

Common vision

A glimpse at some figures

12 universities
500+educational offers
1000+ research groups
72 seed funding projects
310 000+ students
5 000+ mobilites per year
50 000+ staff members
300+ project partners

Figures refer to the period 2020–2025.

Bringing together higher education institutions with a shared vision, EUniWell works to understand, improve, measure and rebalance wellbeing for individuals, our communities, our environment and society at large. This work takes place at regional, European and global levels. It is grounded in our shared values of being democratic, inclusive, research‑ and challenge‑based, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial and co‑creative.

EUniWell Arenas

EUniWell works through five Arenas – key areas that connect research and education with well-being. These Arenas are at the heart of EUniWell’s activities and bring together expertise from across its universities.

An Arena is a collaborative network where researchers, students, and professionals from different disciplines work together on a shared topic. The format is open and flexible, encouraging co-creation in international and interdisciplinary teams. Each Arena is linked to specific UN Sustainable Development Goals and to fields where EUniWell universities have strong knowledge and experience.

EUniWell focuses on five Arenas where EUniWell can have the most significant impact:

Health and Well-Being

This arena promotes health and well-being for all. Uniting researchers, students, and civil society, we tackle challenges from migration, demographic shifts, and technological change through a proactive, integrated approach that promotes health, prevents chronic disease, and supports sustainable healthcare systems.

Social Equality and Well-Being

Here, we explore well-being from a global perspective, focusing on human rights, citizenship, security, and peace. Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we advance inter-disciplinary research and policy solutions addressing challenges to well-being at regional, national, and international levels.

Environmental Change and Well-being

Being In this arena, we address climate change and protection to build sustainable, safe, and inclusive environments. Bringing together experts in economics, social sciences, agriculture, and biology, we offer a comprehensive approach to understanding and solving environmental issues.

Culture, Multilingualism and Well-being

We advance culture and multilingualism as pillars of social well-being. By encouraging the use and teaching of regional, minority, and migrant languages and highlighting the value of plurilingual and intercultural education, we foster personal growth and social bonds as well as social dialogue and cohesion.

Teacher Education and Well-being

Here, we prepare and support teachers to tackle the challenges of modern classrooms and societies. By placing well-being at the heart of educational transformation for both learners and teachers, we aim to address global teacher shortages while promoting an international curriculum focused on inclusion, guidance, sustainability, digitalisation, democracy, and health.

Seedfunding within EUniWell

EUniWell’s Seed Funding Programme supports small-scale collaborative projects initiated by students, researchers, teachers and professional staff across the partner universities. The aim is to develop new ideas and strengthen cooperation that contributes to well-being within universities and in society.

The programme welcomes projects linked to EUniWell’s work on health, education, social and cultural inclusion, environmental sustainability and institutional development, with particular attention to the five Thematic Arenas.

Calls are launched twice a year and are jointly funded by all partner universities. To be eligible, a project must involve at least four EUniWell universities. Selected projects can receive up to €25,000 for a duration of up to twelve months.

More information about our partner universities

Inalco University, Paris, France, is a research university specialising in language-based area studies. Inalco has developed a unique expertise in contemporary languages and societies and a capacity for in-depth analysis based on field research, while continuing to adapt to a changing world in all its diversity and complexity.
Nantes University, France, is a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary university with 20 faculties in technology, humanities and sciences. It has a strong focus on excellence in teaching and research and two fields of priority in health and industry of the future. The University of Nantes is ranked amongst the top 200 universities that contribute the most actively to sustainable development objectives addressed by the United Nations (THE university impact rankings) and amongst the top 100 Reuters ranking for Europe most innovative universities.
Semmelweis University in Budapaest, Hungary, is a leading biomedical institution of higher education in Hungary and Central Europe. Education, research & innovation, and healthcare comprise the University’s three-pillar mission. Semmelweis University is the largest healthcare provider in Hungary and a regional centre of excellence in research and innovation in the field of life sciences.
Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev, Ukraine, is Ukraine's largest national institution of higher education and recognised as one of the country's most prestigious. For almost two centuries, the university has combined quality education and modern science, tradition and innovation.
University of Birmingham, Great Britain, is ranked amongst the world’s top 100 institutions and is a member of the UK’s Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Its work brings people from across the world to Birmingham: leading researchers and teachers and more than 8,500 international students from over 150 countries.
University of Cologne, Germany, is one of the top comprehensive research universities in Germany and a member of the GermanU15 group. Cologne’s students come from 180 countries. Its 6 Faculties and 16 cross-faculty research and teaching centres ensure the high reputation of Cologne’s graduates for both research and the wider market. Among Cologne’s many internationally renowned research units are four Clusters of Excellence on Aging-associated Diseases, Public Policy and Markets, Plant Sciences and Matter and Light for Quantum Computing funded within the German Excellence Strategy.
University of Florence, Italy, is one of the most important Italian public comprehensive universities with a strong international vocation and a large number of “departments of excellence”. It is a top destination in Europe for Erasmus and has a particularly high number of enrolled international students. Unifi has over 400 cooperation agreements with universities and research centres in 89 different countries and a unique cooperation with the study abroad programme of Stanford, NYU, Syracuse and many of the other 43 US programmes in Florence.
University of Konstanz, Germany, is a university with innovation and cooperation at its centre, located in the triangle between Austria, Switzerland and Germany. It is one of eleven universities of excellence in Germany and stands for top-level research, excellence in teaching and learning, and a strong international orientation in all areas of the university.
University of Murcia, Spain, is a comprehensive university with over 32,000 students across 21 faculties and is internationally recognised for its disability services and social inclusion. The university is deeply committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the world in four individual goals (THE university impact rankings 2022), three of which are closely linked to EUniWell's key arenas.
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, has over 25,000 students spread across two campuses in the two World Heritage sites of Santiago de Compostela and Lugo. It is a comprehensive university ranked among the world's top 500 universities (ARWU; 2022), as well as the best university in Spain in 2022 (Forbes) and in environmental sciences (Research.com).
Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, is one of Central and Eastern Europe’s leading medical universities. It educates more than 10,000 students and employs around 1,800 academic staff. The university offers programmes in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and public health, and collaborates closely with Poland’s top university hospitals.

More information

Explore EUniWell for students on Linnaeus University's student webpage
To the website EUniWell.eu
Subscribe to the EUniWell Newsletter
About the European Universities on the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s website (in Swedish)
About the European Universities Initiative on the European Commission’s website