Global Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities
Global Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities
- The world is changing so rapidly – how can we create new global collaborations and grow our networks?
- How can I support my university and students to adapt to an ever-changing world?
- As a university leader I need to be able to respond wisely, but where can I turn to gather knowledge of the global environment, locality and wider innovation landscape?
- What resources are available to gain confidence and expertise in spearheading change transformation in my university?
- Where can I find support to take my entrepreneurial leadership skills to the next level?
The Global Alliance helps our universities be at the vanguard of new thinking and initiatives, raises their visibility and profile, develops their staff and supports their engagement in managed and funded international opportunities.
As well as being part of an invaluable wider network, our members have access to a wide range of resources including online materials, publications and reports, managed and funded international programmes, generous member discounts on all events and professional development opportunities and dedicated member only activities.
Your influence in shaping the agenda is via the Alliance Advisory Group, as well as engagement in our programmes, roundtables and discussions. Premium members have access to our exclusive Member’s Area.
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Our members span multiple continents, and work together to drive societal impact. Learn more about our Premium and Free member institutions.
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Royal Northern College of Music
The Royal Northern College of Music was crowned Outstanding Entrepreneurial University at the 2023 Times Higher Education Awards, an award sponsored by NCEE. The awards – dubbed the ‘Oscars of higher education’ and now in their 19th year – span 20 categories covering the full range of university activities.
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Coventry University
We are a forward-looking, modern university with a proud tradition as a provider of high quality education and a focus on applied research.
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University of Strathclyde
Strathclyde is a multi-award-winning university. We’re delighted to be the only University to have won the Times Higher Education University of the Year award twice (2012 and 2019). Over the years we’ve been recognised across a variety of categories at the Times Higher Education awards. These include the coveted Business School of the Year and Workplace of the Year.
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The University of Edinburgh
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. We celebrate and strengthen our deep-rooted and distinctive internationalism, attracting the world’s best minds and building innovative global partnerships for research, teaching and impact.
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University of Suffolk
The University of Suffolk is all about transformation — transforming individuals, our community, our region and beyond. Education, training and research are powerful tools to support transformation and change; we believe that by facilitating the development of skills, knowledge and behaviours, we will enable our students, our community and our region to be enriched, enhanced and impacted socially, culturally and economically.
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Harper Adams University
At Harper Adams we’re changing the world.
Advancing knowledge, inspiring learners and equipping people to find creative, sustainable solutions to the economic and environmental challenges facing our planet – now and in the future. Real change is possible through a united vision and shared agenda.
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University of Tunis El Manar
University of Tunis El Manar (UTM), established in 2000, stands as one of Tunisia’s premier educational institutions. Offering a diverse array of academic programs spanning law, literature, sciences, medicine, economics, engineering, and more, UTM has positioned itself as a comprehensive university catering to a wide range of intellectual pursuits. Its location in Tunis, the capital city, places it at the heart of Tunisia’s vibrant student community.
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University of Sfax
The University of Sfax is a university based in Sfax. It was founded in 1986. The university is very open to its socio-economic environment. It contributes largely to diversifying the economic fabric of Sfax Governorate and strengthening the economic weight that the region represents at the national level.
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University of Carthage
The University of Carthage (UCAR), founded in 1988, is a Tunisian public training and research institution that is under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
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University of Sousse
The University of Sousse provides a range of academic and professionalised training in the Basic Sciences, Legal, Economic and Management, Technical, Agronomic, Medical, Paramedical, Arts and Crafts, Letters and Humanities.
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Anglia Ruskin University
ARU is an innovative global university with students from 185 countries coming to study with us. We’ve once again been named as one of the top 350 institutions in the world in The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 – and one of the top 40 universities in the UK.
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University of Manouba
Founded in 2000, the University of Manouba (UMA) is rich in the potential of its 15 institutions created between 1956 and 2023.
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University of Jendouba
The University of Jendouba, established in 2003, is a significant institution of higher education serving northwestern Tunisia. Situated in the town of Jendouba, the university plays a crucial role in providing educational opportunities across four provinces: Jendouba, Beja, El Kef, and Siliana. This strategic location allows the university to cater to the diverse educational needs of the region, making it an important centre for academic and professional development in northwestern Tunisia.
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Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool John Moores University is a distinctive, unique institution, rooted in the Liverpool City Region but with a global presence.
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Shandong Institute of Commerce and Technology
Founded in 1936, Shandong Institute of Commerce and Technology (SICT), a public institute, started higher vocational education in 1999. SICT was awarded many honors, including National Model High Vocational College, National Advanced College in Graduate Employment, Best College in Entrepreneurship Education of Shandong. There are 58 programs and about 16,000 full-time students in SICT.
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De Montfort University
As the Empowering University we really enjoy engaging with all our communities in and around Leicester and across the globe.
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Abu Dhabi School of Management
The Abu Dhabi School of Management (ADSM), owned by the Abu Dhabi Chamber is a unique business school in the region, focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship. Our vision is to be a center of excellence for entrepreneurship, leadership and management through the discovery and dissemination of knowledge.
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University of Venda
The University of Venda, situated in Thohoyandou in the scenic Vhembe district of the Limpopo Province of South Africa was established in 1982. The university aligns its vision and mission with the needs of the community at local, regional, national, continental, and international levels.
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Walter Sisulu University
Walter Sisulu University is a Higher Education Institution based in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Formed in 2005, the university has positioned itself as a centre of academic excellence committed to its vision of being a technology infused African university.
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University of Salford
From its inception as a royal institute in 1896, through the period as College of Advanced Technology during the post-war period, to its university charter status in 1967, the University of Salford has pioneered original research that is ready for industry application.
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Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University is where creative minds meet. We teach and research across art, sciences, education, social science, and business. The University employs outstanding creative professionals who support its aim to be a leading educational institution in creativity, culture and enterprise.
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Global Banking School
GBS is a higher education provider offering a range of sector-relevant courses across nine campuses in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Working in partnership with several of the UK’s leading higher education providers, we deliver vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in finance, accounting, business, construction, tourism, healthcare – and more.
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University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow and our inspiring people have been changing the world for more than 570 years.
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St Mary’s University
St Mary’s University is a London campus with green space, great graduate outcomes, and one-to-one support. Established in 1850, we have a strong reputation for teaching excellence, and combine our long and distinguished history with a very modern outlook.
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University of Derby
The University of Derby is a modern university with a modern outlook. Everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, our staff and our region.
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Özyeğin University
Özyeğin University strives to be one of the premier entrepreneurial research universities in Turkey.
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Keele University
We’re Keele and we’re different. Founded almost 75 years ago to meet the demands of a new kind of society, economy and world, our principles resonate now more than ever.
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University of Tunis
Since its creation, the University of Tunis offers training diversified. Its objective is to ensure quality training, in accordance with the rules and traditions of the transmission of knowledge and the demands of modern science, as part of a strategy of development of society.
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United Arab Emirates University
The United Arab Emirates University is a public research university located in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1976 by the country’s first President, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, it is the oldest university in the United Arab Emirates.
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UCLan Cyprus
UCLan Cyprus is a fully authorised Branch Campus affiliated with the prestigious University of Central Lancashire. A unique and innovative model of a Cypriot and British University Educational Experience, accredited by the UK Quality Assurance Agency and the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (CYQAA) respectively.
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Universities Fund Kenya
The main mandate of the Universities Fund is to develop the detailed institutional funding criteria, apportioning and disbursing all government funding, and then monitoring the utilization and impact of the funds by the universities.
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University of Bradford
At the University of Bradford, our focus is on creating the conditions for social, cultural, and economic impact. We are committed to social inclusion and our work to expand opportunity and enable students to reach their potential has led to us topping the Social Mobility Index of English universities for the last two years.
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University of Birmingham
For more than a century, the University of Birmingham has been pursuing and sharing knowledge through outstanding teaching and world-leading research.
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University of South Wales
The University of South Wales is one of Britain’s most exciting and ambitious vocationally-focused universities. Across our three campuses in Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd and beyond, we have more than 23,000 students from more than 100 countries. Working with our extensive network of industry and community partners, we are changing lives and our world for the better.