On 26th June, the European Commission announced the first 17 European Universities Alliances (please see press release). Each of the four partner universities of the Joint International Master in Cultural Sociology: University of Graz, Masaryk University, University of Trento and University of Zadar is a partner university in a European Universities Alliance. The objective of the European Universities is that they will become inter-university campuses around which students, doctoral candidates, staff and researchers can move seamlessly.