Aurora in 2025: New Year Message from Ramon Puras, Aurora Secretary General

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20 January 2025

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Ramon Puras, Aurora Secretary General, welcomes 2025 with a message centered on the future of Aurora, its vision and the commitment of the Aurora community.

As 2025 unfolds, two words come to mind: enrichment and transformation.

Aurora is built on European and global collaboration between higher education institutions working collectively toward a shared vision: combining academic excellence with societal relevance.

Through high trust and close cooperation, we enrich our experiences, broaden our perspectives, and influence impactful policies in education, research, innovation, sustainability, and inclusivity. Together, we achieve more than any single university could accomplish alone.

Aurora universities create opportunities for students, staff and faculty:

To enrich teaching, learning, and research across borders and disciplines.
To travel abroad, embrace change, and discover new cultures.
To foster societal innovation through the power of trust and collaboration.

Aurora is a laboratory for transformation, a space where we cultivate research, leverage technology, and ensure equal access to higher education for all.

2025 marks a pivotal year of transformation for Aurora. Highlights include:

Our first International Peace Conference.
The launch of our second annual Call for Incentive Research Collaboration.
The seizmic Awards, celebrating student-led social business projects.
The Workshop on Blended Intensive Programmes at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
The ongoing legacy of our Aurora Research and Innovation (R&I) programme, and, last but not least,
The Aurora Annual Conference hosted by the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) in Paris.

Aurora is also stepping up its European engagement, advocating for more Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and highlighting the importance of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon Europe’s successor, FP10. We are proud to support initiatives like FOR-EU4All.

At the heart of these transformations are the people who make them happen. The shared passion and commitment of our Aurora community to societal impact and transformation is truly inspiring.

2025 promises to be an exciting year – stay tuned!

Ramon Puras
Aurora Secretary General