The Alliance program is an innovative endeavor that is strongly based on core principles that are shared by the four founding members.

International competition in higher education redefines largely Universities strategies in order to remain strong and competitive. Cooperation and partnership happen to be essential instruments available for universities who want to take advantage of it.

A network reaching out two essential continents for Higher education, North America and Europe, is crucial in the international expansion strategy. Both New York and Paris, as global cities which are opening doors on their respective continent, provide an outstanding mutual benefits to the universities belonging to the Alliance.

In this international competition, recruiting the best students and professors is a key issue and a challenge. Alliance offers to four universities incredible opportunities for their students and professors to pursue their academic objectives abroad while remaining in their home institution. Alliance’s major objective is to use this partnership research network to identify priority research needs for the medium and long term, to identify potential new areas of collaboration, to foster research activities and coordinate partnerships.

By raising some issues that matter for our societies and open a space for discussion between private sector executives, public policy-makers and academics, the New York Paris Alliance Program has started being a leading transatlantic platform of dialogue on important issues. Workshops, conferences and co-sponsored events are organized both in Paris and in New York to share recent research results and outline future joint research perspectives on current issues. Here are some priorities of Alliance’s workshop agenda: Discrimination and group inequality, Public space, Urban policy, Transatlantic relations.