UNITA – Universitas Montium: climb your future!

1. Create a shared governance structure
2. Take an approach focused on innovation and student needs.
3. Promoting multilingualism, particularly through intercomprehension in Romance languages
4. Structure research, particularly on the topics of renewable energy, the circular economy, and cultural heritage.
5. Create an interconnected campus
6. Promoting mobility for all
7. Contributing to the debate on European citizenship
8. Sustaining the UNITA alliance

The UNITA Universitas Montium alliance is based on shared values such as social responsibility, democratic participation, sustainable development, inclusiveness, and the promotion of personal development.

The six partners therefore wish to create an open, inclusive European university that is a source of innovative ideas, in order to develop the concept of European identity and represent the views of people living in mountain areas.

On this basis, UNITA aims to design a fully-fledged European inter-university campus that promotes excellence and enhances the appeal of the alliance. Students and staff will be able to enjoy a multilingual environment centered around their needs, enabling increased mobility and the development of innovative teaching approaches such as intercomprehension between Romance languages.

This approach is mainly based on joint reflection involving students and staff from partner universities, with a view to responding to social challenges and empowering them to fully embrace their European citizenship.

UNITA is strongly rooted in its territories. With 32 associated partners, the alliance is part of a substantial territorial network and works to develop European regions that are often considered peripheral. These are mainly rural areas, which often face depopulation—with the exception of the Savoie Mont Blanc territory.

UNITA promotes these regions with common characteristics through joint actions carried out with associated partners who are heavily involved in this European university project.

Six associate partners have joined UNITA through their links with the University of Savoie Mont Blanc:

• The International Association for the Promotion of Remote Intercomprehension (Apicad)
• The University Association of the Francophonie (AUF)
• The USMB Business Club
• The Savoie Mont Blanc Council (CSMB)
• The Euromontana Association
• The Tenerrdis competitiveness cluster

To learn more about the objectives of the new phase of UNITA, with 12 partners, you can read the alliance's mission statement: UNITA Mission Statement final