Experimenting with new governance models in European Universities Alliances

In 2022, as it emerged from the Covid crisis, the University of Lille, situated in the North of France, underwent two major transformations - it finalized its new, experimental governance model, including devolved autonomy to its constituent components, and it joinedNeurotechEU, the European University of Brain and Technology, coordinated by Radboud University.
Through a kind of recursive loop, joining NeurotechEU has enabled the University of Lille to create its own Institut Cerveau, Société &Technologies, an interdisciplinary graduate programme bringing various strands within the institution which would have otherwiseremained separate.
The far-reaching effects of NeurotechEU membership on the university go beyond neurotechnology, however, and have provided aninspiration for other domains, such as a large project on democracy driven by cognitive sciences in order to respond to informationaldisruption.
Accordingly, can such new governance models provide a template for the future development of alliances, in which some of the memberorganisations might wish to retain more or less institutional autonomy?
This event, organized by the Brussels office of France Universités (the French rectors’ conference) on behalf of the University of Lille, wishesto assess the extent to which possible overlaps between the two governance systems may benefit the development of different kinds ofhigher education institutions at local, national and European levels.

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