Atlantis Programme

Atlantis is an EU-US cooperation programme established in 1995. The programme is funded and managed jointly by the European Commission and by the US Department of Education. It aims primarily at promoting understanding between the peoples of the European Union and the United States of America and improving the quality of their human resource development through:

• Transatlantic Degree action providing support to multilateral partnerships of EU and US institutions for the purpose of setting up joint study programmes - including joint/double degrees - and transatlantic mobility of students and faculty
• Excellence Mobility Projects, providing follow-up financial support for student mobility to joint consortia that have a proven track record of excellence in transatlantic cooperation
• Policy-oriented measures, addressing comparative higher education and vocational training issues, and promoting dialogue on recognition of qualifications and accreditations
• Schuman-Fulbright action providing scholarships to highly qualified professionals for undertaking studies or training on the opposite side of the Atlantic, in areas of specific relevance to the EU/US relations.  The details of the Schuman-Fulbright action will be developed as a cooperation between the European Commission and the US Department of State

Up to date, the University of Trento is coordinating one project in Action 1, that is a Double Degree (ATLAS), its partners being the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, the Politecnico of Turin and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Always in the framework of Action 1, Trento is partner in a project for a special study course in Law (Altantis Supported Exchanges for Transnational Legal Education). Coordinating institution is the University of Utrecht and US partner is the School of Law of the Washington University in St. Louis.