The Strategic Alliance for Regional Transition (STARS EU) It is one of the 73 European university alliances in which the ULL is integrated, along with nine other higher education centers, which collaborate on different initiatives to promote the exchange of ideas, people and innovation, both in research and teaching, in order to face a future marked by unprecedented social changes.

STARS EU is a future-oriented European University whose aim is to train a new generation of students to act as agents of change in the regional transition; to offer innovative, flexible and diverse challenge-based education and research systems; to foster interregional collaboration and synergies; and to contribute significantly to the sustainable development of regions and Europe.