Thematic Work Groups are more generic groups who over time address issues of importance to the member institutions. Consequently a working group on student mobility is set up to ensure the best possible use of available means such as Socrates and Erasmus, and furthermore to look into how the ECIU institutions can support increased student mobility in general. Likewise a working group is looking into aspects related to Staff mobility.

Previously the ECIU had a working group for EU research programmes, but this group has developed into a more focussed group dealing with activities within the area of innovation and entrepreneurship.

• The Student Mobility Group
• The ECIU Staff mobility Group
• The ECIU Innovation Research Group

The ECIU has an electronic newsletter which is published four times a year. The newsletter is aimed at academic and administrative staff members and hopes to give an insight in the activities of the Consortium and into news from the various ECIU member institutions.

Currently the following people are part of the editorial team of the newsletter:

Alice Bonde, Aalborg, Ana Bela Martin Dias, Aveiro, Ingrid Holst, TUHH, Nadine Luft, Compiegne, Rose-Marie Barbeau, Strathclyde, Wiebe van der Veen, Twente, and Saskia Loer Hansen, ECIU Secretariat.