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As a HEROES student, you join an international community where learning goes beyond the classroom. Take joint courses, join exchanges, and work on challenge-based projects with peers from nine countries, gaining new skills and experiencing different cultures and regions along the way.
What’s in it for you as a student?
Level up your studies with new friendships and real opportunities across Europe. Grow your confidence, build a network that lasts, and get ready for the future while making an impact in a community where your ideas count. Step up and become a truly European student!
Examples of offerings for students via HEROES:
BIPs
Each HEROES University offers Blended Intensive Programmes, where you combine online learning with a short period of physical mobility, giving you the opportunity to go on a short exchange and learn and collaborate with students from other universities and countries within the Alliance.
Ask your programme director or international office contact for current offerings.
CBL
In many of the courses offered within HEROES you will use Challenge-Based Learning as a teaching method that gives you the opportunity to work together across disciplines and institutions to address real-world challenges and develop innovative, practical solutions.
MOOCs
Via HEROES you get access to Massive Open Online Courses that are flexible online courses open to a large number of participants, allowing you to learn from experts and connect with people from around the world.
Summer Schools
HEROES summer schools allow you to spend a few weeks during your summer holidays at one of the universities within the alliance. The Summer schools are short, intensive learning programmes that bring together students from the alliance universities to study, network and share cultural experiences.
Ask your programme director or international office contact for current offerings.
Student council engagement
By getting involved in the HEROES Student council you get the opportunity to build an international network of other engaged students, travel across Europe, participate in decision-making, represent student perspectives and contribute to the development of both your university and the alliance universities.
Ask your Student Union contact for details on how to get involved.
Joint programmes
HEROES Joint study programmes are developed and delivered by two or more universities within in Alliance, allowing you to benefit from the expertise, courses and learning environments of multiple institutions.
More information to come.
Double degrees / dual degrees
HEROES Double or dual degree programmes allow you as a student to study at two partner universities and earn two separate degrees, based on an agreed programme of study and mobility period.
More information to come.
Students will soon be able to join international learning activities, short programmes, research initiatives, and community projects developed across the alliance. As the programme grows, new opportunities will be added regularly.
Information about student calls, applications, and events will be published on this page. You can also follow your institution’s announcements to stay updated on new activities as they become available.
Over the past year, Claudia Duedal Højbert has been part of the HEROES University Alliance through the HEROES Student Council alongside her studies as a radiography student at UCN in Aalborg, Denmark. During this time, her engagement has developed into a hands‑on learning experience in international collaboration and project‑based work.
VIKO Graphic Design second-year student Anastasija Kotelnikova has won the HEROES University Alliance mascot design contest. Her creation, Kubicus — a curious, transformable character inspired by the Rubik’s cube — will soon appear across HEROES social media, events, and the website. But this story almost didn’t happen.
David Cismas doesn’t do things by halves. He runs marathons unprepared just to prove a point. He cycles from Brussels to Koblenz to celebrate European freedom. And when he sees a problem in international education, he doesn’t complain — he builds a solution from scratch.
Stepping into an international environment for the first time can be both exciting and challenging, especially when real responsibility is involved. For one master’s student, participating in a one-week Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) in Vilnius became a defining moment for both personal and professional growth.
Yashar Asadzadeh didn’t expect international studies to be part of his journey. As a student in the bachelor’s programme in Innovation Engineering, his life in Gothenburg was already firmly established.
I had always been curious about going on an exchange. But somehow, it always felt like too much trouble. When opportunities came up, there was always something that made it feel complicated.
The HEROES Virtual Campus is currently under development. Access will be enabled here as soon as the platform goes live.
