Panel session
What is the European Universities Initiative? Where does it come from? What does it mean for international partners and how is it transforming higher education across Europe? These questions will be addressed in a panel session bringing together senior researchers from Poland, Norway and France, featuring short presentations and discussions. Our session is aimed at everyone who is interested in alliances, whether you are based in Europe or are an international colleague wanting to learn more.
Topics:
Research on internationalisation European Universities Initiative
Alex Frame is full professor in Communication Studies at the Languages and Communication Faculty of Université Bourgogne Europe (UBE, Dijon, France), where he runs the MA course in Intercultural Management.
Born in Britain, he graduated from the University of Oxford in 1998, before settling in France and completing his PhD in Communication at UBE, in 2008. He is a member of the TIL ("Texte, Image, Langage") research group (EA 4182), where he specialises in intercultural and interpersonal communication, organisational communication, and digital forms of political communication, notably on X (ex-Twitter).
He has published over 60 academic articles and books on these questions, notably adopting an interpretative stance on interculturality applied to contemporary society and its organisations, striving to move beyond essentialising perspectives (https://u-bourgogne.academia.edu/AlexFrame). His main publications can be found here: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6802-7806, including a 2025 open access edited volume on the European Universities Initiative (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003490654/european-universities-initiative-euro-internationalisation-european-higher-education-barbara-cury%C5%82o-alexander-frame).
From its creation in 2019, he has been the institutional coordinator of the European University Alliance "FORTHEM" at UBE.
