The UNITA Alliance unites 12 universities from 7 different countries. Together, they are helping to build the European higher education area. The member universities, most of which are in Romance-speaking countries, have in common that they are located in border and mountain areas.
UNITA brings together:
- Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI - Portugal)
- Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA - France)
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB - France)
- Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara (UVT - Romania)
- Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO - Italy)
- Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR - Spain)
- Instituto Politécnico da Guarda (IPG - Portugal)
- Università degli Studi di Brescia (UniBS - Italy)
- Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA - Spain)
- Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov (UniTBv - Romania)
- University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO - Switzerland)
- Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Ukraine)
Each of these universities is firmly rooted in its territory. The alliance plays a key role in the development of European regions that are often considered peripheral, in rural areas that, in some cases, are facing depopulation.
UNITA is a European university supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Commission's Erasmus+ program.