COL­OURS Al­li­ance

Welcome!

Coordinated by UPB, nine universities joined forces to form the Alliance "COLOURS" (COLlaborative innOvative sUstainable Regional univerSities).

The application of the Alliance as a "European University" was successful and it will receive funding of around 14 million euros from the European Commission over the next four years, starting in January 2024. COLOURS is now one of a total of 50 "European Universities" throughout Europe. An overview of all alliances funded in the current round can be found on the website of the European Commission.

 

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In addition to UPB, the alliance includes the following universities:

Together the alliance members represent more than 126,000 students and almost 12,300 employees.

The partners aim to strengthen their European network, increase their international visibility, and promote mobility within Europe. They also work to develop a multidisciplinary approach to jointly address current societal challenges.

All COLOURS partners are deeply rooted in their regional, socio-political, and economic environment. Therefore, their approach also focuses on strengthening cooperation between the respective regions and regional actors.

With a "challenge-based approach" in teaching, research, and knowledge and technology transfer, the partners want to use synergy effects by intensifying their cooperation at all levels. For example, the alliance plans to develop new attractive offers for virtual and physical mobility and to create joint study and teaching activities in the long run. Students will be strongly involved in designing these measures.

The COLOURS team at Paderborn University consists of the COLOURS Coordination and Support Office and the COLOURS Implementation Office. 

The Coordination and Support Office is responsible for the coordination of the entire COLOURS Alliance, consisting of 9 universities in 9 countries. Central contact: cso.colours@upb.de 

The Implementation Office is responsible for the coordination and implementation of COLOURS measures at UPB. This includes the implementation of CoLabs, double degree programmes, BIPS, summer schools, internships, microcredentials and much more.  Central contact: implementation.colours@upb.de

 

 

As part of the CoLabs, researchers from the COLOURS partner universities and stakeholders from the participating European regions work together on current social challenges. The aim is to bring together people from research and education, economy and industry, public administration, politics and civil society in order to incorporate a wide range of perspectives.

The Alliance has identified the areas of health and well-being, food production, green transition, IT and digitalisation as overarching topics. The individual CoLab events will jointly develop viable solutions for these current topics.

Further information on current CoLabs can be found here.

If you are interested in organising a CoLab, please contact us: cospace.colours@uni-paderborn.de

The COLOURS Alliance kick-off event took place at Paderborn University on 18 and 19 March. Further information can be found here.

Con­tact

COL­OURS Pres­id­ent

Prof. Dr. Torsten Meier

Vice-President for International Relations

Co­ordin­a­tion and Sup­port Of­fice

Dr. Annette Klinkert

Managing Director COLOURS Alliance

Office: TP6.1.305
Phone: +49 5251 60-4664
E-mail: annette.klinkert@uni-paderborn.de

Basel Myhub, M.A.

COLOURS Financial Officer

Office: TP6.1.304
Phone: +49 5251 60-4663
E-mail: basel.myhub@uni-paderborn.de

Marion Grote-Kraft

COLOURS Quality Officer (on parental leave)

Office: TP6.1.304
Phone: +49 5251 60-4678
E-mail: marion.grote.kraft@uni-paderborn.de

Chris Schattka, M.A.

Maternity Leave Cover COLOURS Quality Officer

Office: TP6.1.304
Phone: +49 5251 60-4687
E-mail: chris.schattka@uni-paderborn.de

Laura H?lscher

CSO Assistant

Office: TP6.1.305
Phone: +49 5251 60-4651
E-mail: laura.hoelscher@uni-paderborn.de

Im­ple­ment­a­tion Of­fice

Mouna Amhoud

Maternity Leave Cover COLOURS Implementation Office Lead

Office: TP6.1.302
Phone: +49 5251 60-4686
E-mail: mouna.amhoud@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: implementation.colours@upb.de

Dr. Isabelle Leitloff

Implementation Office Lead (CIO-Lead) of the European Alliance COLOURS

Office: TP6.1.303
Phone: +49 5251 60-4674
E-mail: isabelle.leitloff@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: implementation.colours@upb.de

Dr. Christine Marie Hante-Koch

CoSpace Officer COLOURS Alliance

Office: TP6.1.303
Phone: +49 5251 60-4673
E-mail: cmhk@mail.uni-paderborn.de

Dr. Alena Diedrich

CoSpace Officer COLOURS Alliance

Office: TP6
Phone: +49 5251 60-6303
E-mail: alena.diedrich@uni-paderborn.de
Mission Statement

You can download the COLOURS Mission Statement here.

Contact

If you are interested in cooperating with the COLOURS partners in teaching, research, or administration, please contact us!

 

Mail:  implementation.colours@uni-paderborn.de