This book examines the European Universities Initiative from multiple angles and comparative studies.

It outlines the scope and potential of this initiative, and the different epistemological and methodological approaches which can be adopted to investigate it in the light of previous research on Europeanisation, on the internationalisation of higher education, and on the construction of European identities through everyday practices. With this, it presents the concept of “Euro-internationalisation” to understand the factors which brought the initiative into being. Bringing together contributions from all over Europe, involved in several of the first European University Alliances, the book helps to foster a better understanding of the evolution of Higher Education in Europe.

The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of higher education policy and governance, European Policy, European integration and more broadly to international relations, globalisation and the sociology of education.