JGU and Futury expand their cooperation to include the European university alliance FORTHEM

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Futury — The Future Factory have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation within the FORTHEM Alliance.

As an innovation platform, Futury brings companies and startups together to optimally support founders from idea to market launch and to sustainably promote entrepreneurial spirit in the Rhine-Main region. The aim of the new cooperation is to expand the innovation ecosystem of both partners and to expand joint activities in areas such as entrepreneurial education, sustainability, digital and green change, and innovation made in Europe.

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The partnership complements existing initiatives within the European university alliance FORTHEM, which connect universities with social actors, business and politics. It is also in line with the future Future Factory — a joint project of the three Rhine-Main Universities (JGU, TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt), the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Futury — which has set itself the goal of developing 1,000 startups in the Rhine-Main region by 2030. Through JGU, Futury will also work with the partner universities of the FORTHEM Alliance to develop programs, formats and exchange measures that promote entrepreneurial thinking among students and employees across Europe.

Through the FORTHEM Alliance, Futury has access to a network of a total of nine universities with 232,000 students and 36,000 employees in all parts of Europe. In return, FORTHEM benefits from the expertise and experience of the Futury innovation network in the start-up and start-up sector.

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About FORTHEM

FORTHEM is one of 65 European university alliances with which the EU Commission wants to create a European educational area. The FORTHEM Alliance wants to bring together its members and people across Europe — across languages, borders and disciplines — to bring the European idea to life, to promote exchange on equal terms and to manifest a commitment to common democratic values. The partner universities promote student and employee mobility at their respective universities and train their students to become cosmopolitan and responsible European and global citizens who respect and value internationality and interculturalism and work together on solutions to current social challenges on this basis.

The FORTHEM network is strongly regionally connected in each of the home countries of the nine partner universities, some of which have been cooperating with each other for many years and at the same time are open to new forms of collaboration and exchange — with the consistent goal of strengthening the multilateral European network in its innovative capacity and close integration of learning and teaching, research and practical application.

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https://www.forthem-alliance.eu/

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