Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EUniverCities

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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 20:01, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

EUniverCities[edit]

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litle evidence for notability DGG ( talk ) 14:28, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: I found a few reliable sources which talks about the network: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5]. With these, the article is good enough to pass WP:GNG. ASTIG😎 _{(ICE T • ICE CUBE)} 16:00, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Sources 1-2 don't display to me, source 4 mentions the topic clearly only in passing. Sources 3 and 5 are more in-depth, but are they reliable? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:23, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:05, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 11:51, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Piotrus, excerpt from Source 1:

At the national level, there are associations of cities that regard themselves as uiversity cities. This is the case, for example, of the Association des Villes Universitaires de France (AVUF), founded by the City of Rouen in 1993. At the European level, there are at present only two well-established networks of university cities and university institutions: EUniverCities Network (Netherlands) and Unitown-University Town Network (Italy). A Third network, named UniversCities, was announced in a conference promoted by the University of Geneva (Switzerland) at the end of 2015. This initiative seems, even in its title, very similar to that proposed by Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) for 2017. Let us examine the main features of the two existing European networks which compromise both university and city insitutions, EUniverCities and Unitown.
EUniverCities is a European network launched in 2012. The network aims to exchange and spread the knowledge, expertise, and experience about city-university cooperation across Europe. It is comprised of ten medium-sized cities and universities which have agreed to work together (in tandem) in order to give university cities more visibility within Europe. It seems to be focused on innovation and technology transfers between universities and cities, but it is open to a broad range of cdomains of city-university cooperation. The network seems to prefer a decentralized working method, rather than general conferences addressed to all members.

Excerpt from Source 2:

Implicarea Universității de Vest din Timișoara în comunitate primește o recunoaștere importantă. Instituția a fost acceptată cu statut de membru observator în cadrul rețelei europene EUniverCities. La începutul lunii decembrie, la Trondheim, Norvegia, se va semna documentul prin care UVT va fi acceptată ca membru cu drepturi depline, devenind astfel prima universitate din sud-estul Europei parte a prestigioasei rețele.
EUniverCities este o rețea europeană, lansată oficial în 2012, în care orașele mijlocii și universitățile lor colaborează (în așa-numitele tandemuri) pentru a îmbunătăți cooperarea. Obiectivul rețelei este schimbul și răspândirea cunoștințelor, expertizei și experienței cu privire la cooperarea dintre oraș și universitate.

Sources 3 and 5 are indeed reliable since they are news sites from Portugal and Spain respectively. ASTIG😎 _{(ICE T • ICE CUBE)} 05:55, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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