The ECIU is engaged in further activities, than those who can be categorised as projects and thematic work groups.

Once every 2nd year, the ECIU awards a research prize to honour outstanding research results and as well to honour a researcher who is capable of communication his or her research results to a broader audience without previous knowledge of the subject area.

To ensure that information about the ECIU reaches its member institutions, a PR group has been set up. This groups monitors the information work done at the ECIU Secretariat level, and ensures that news of ECIU events is described in local newsletters.

Apart from securing information about ECIU activities as such, the ECIU Secretariat works hard at ensuring that information about seminars, conferences or bit events within one member institution is sent onwards to other ECIU institutions. Doing its own activities is only one of the priorities of the ECIU, another is to secure synergy across the member institutions and to facilitate an exchange of experience and knowledge through existing means such as local seminars and events.

Likewise the ECIU network can be used to e.g. send a request for partners for EU project applications or postings of positions at Marie Curie Training Sites. The ECIU local coordinators assist in this process and ensure that information is distributed within the member institutions.