The  UNIgreen DAY – The Green European University

On 17 February 2022, eight UNIgreen partner universities took an important step towards establishing the European University UNIgreen, an alliance of European universities in the areas of Agro, Bio and Life Sciences (#WeAreUNIgreen).

In order to create a transnational alliance of European universities that share the same long-term vision for cooperation, eight institutions, namely: University of Almería (Spain) – coordinator, Agricultural University of Iceland (Iceland), Agricultural University Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège (Belgium), Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Portugal), Paris Sup’Biotech (France), Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) prepared a project application within the initiative of European Universities entitled The Green European University (UNIgreen).

17 February – the UNIgreen Day

Representatives of the universities involved in the UNIgreen alliance met in Brussels on 17 February 2022 to sign a declaration of accession to the initiative. The Rectors’ meeting was organized by the International Relations Office of the Belgian partner university – Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège (HEPL), which manages the project at HEPL. More about the event on www.

17 February became a symbolic beginning of the UNIgreen – The Green European University – to commemorate the date, the universities associated with the alliance set this day as the UNIgreen Day.