Willem van Winden is co-founder and advisor for EUniverCities, a network of cities that want to learn from each other how to create effective city-university partnerships.

In EUniverCities, medium-sized cities and their universities work together (in so called tandems) to improve cooperation. The network brings together cities and universities with an economic, social and technological profile.

How can cities and universities work together in effective partnerships? Willem van Winden is co-founder and advisor of EUniverCities, a network of city & university tandems that want to learn from each other how to create effective city-university partnerships. In EUniverCities, medium-sized cities and their universities work together (in so called tandems) to improve cooperation.

The current members of EUniverCities are:

City of Aveiro | University of Aveiro
City of Exeter | University of Exeter
City of Ghent | Ghent University
City of Innsbruck | University of Innsbruck
City of Lausanne | University of Lausanne
City of Linköping | Linköping University
City of Lublin | Maria Curie Sklodowska University Lublin
City of Magdeburg | Otto-von-Guericke University and University of Applied Sciences
City of Malaga | University of Malaga
City of Norrköping | Linköping University – Campus Norrköping
City of Parma | University of Parma
City of Timisoara | West University of Timişoara
City of Trondheim | University of Science and Technology
City of Turku | University of Turku

The network meets twice per year in one of the member cities. Also the network is a platform for all sorts of collaborations.

For more information, see the network’s website