Networks and alliances

We have a long history of global collaboration and partnership across our teaching and research activity. We collaborate daily with university colleagues around the world - researching, teaching, reviewing academic papers, organising conferences and giving seminars. Find out more about our network membership.

A leading global network of research-intensive universities.

The U7+ Alliance is an international coalition of university presidents who meet to engage in discussions and agree concrete action to address pressing global challenges.

Una Europa

Our alliance with Una Europa is one of the University's most important European partnerships.

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a cross-regional network of universities, colleges, research institutes and other organisations involved in education and research in and about the North.

The Cervantes Chair is a platform for promoting Spanish and Iberian languages, arts, culture, and science across Scotland.

Founded in 1985 and formally constituted by Charter in 1987, it is a large association of European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard.

The League of European Research Universities (LERU), founded in 2002, is a consortium of research-led European Universities that has had a significant impact on research policy in Europe.

UNICA is the 'Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe'.

A network of nine European universities in life sciences.

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The University of Edinburgh has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).