GEMINAE partners
What is GEMINAE?
The GEMINAE programme, led by the UNITA alliance, aims to establish a network of ‘sister’ universities outside Europe, primarily in Romance-language countries. It encourages the sharing of best practices (teaching, research, innovation, societal impact) and facilitates the mobility of students, teachers and researchers.
Objectives and areas of action
- Dissemination of best practices: laboratories, teaching, governance, administration
- Exchanges and mobility: investment in virtual programmes, staff weeks, co-location (COIL), BIP, rural mobility
- PhD and research: opportunity for GEMINAE academics to undertake PhDs or research missions within UNITA
Recent events and initiatives
- Pau Conference (20–23 September 2023): UNITA welcomed 15 non-European universities and presented its advances in digital education
- Scientific projects originating from GEMINAE: for example, a Franco-Colombian project on collaborative artistic practices, funded by the ECOS Nord programme, initiated during the Pau meetings (April 2025)
GEMINAE Best Practices Awards
Held every two years, these awards recognise up to six best practices in higher education (teaching, research, regional impact, sustainability, governance, inclusion).
Recent timeline:
2024–2025 call for entries: open from 15 December 2024 to 15 April 2025, with the jury, results and ceremony scheduled for late May/September 2025.
Network of partners
A network of around 30 universities from Latin America, Africa, Asia and North America, including:
Algeria
- University of Boumerdes
Argentina
- Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)
- National University of Cuyo
- National University of La Plata
Benin
- University of Abomey-Calavi
Burkina Faso
- 2IE – International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering
Brazil
- Fucape Business School
- University of Brasília
- State University of Campinas
- State University of Western Paraná
- Federal University of Bahia
- Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Federal University of Viçosa
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Regional University of Blumenau
Cape Verde
- University of Cape Verde
Canada
- University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières
- University of Sherbrooke
Cuba
- University of Havana
Colombia
- Catholic University of Colombia
- University of the Andes
- Rosario University
- National University of Colombia
Madagascar
- University of Antananarivo
Morocco
- Hassan II University of Casablanca
Mozambique
- Pedagogical University of Maputo
Mexico
- Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí
- University of Monterrey
Dominican Republic
- Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
Senegal
- Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar
Timor-Leste
- National University of Timor Lorosa'e
