The ECIU at present consists of eleven members and three overseas associate partner:

• Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
• Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
• Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Universität Dortmund, Germany
• University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
• Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
• University of Warwick, United Kingdom
• Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
• Linköping University, Sweden
• Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
• Southern Federal University, Russia (formerly Rostov State University)
• Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

The name of the consortium is European Consortium of Innovative Universities to underline the European dimension of a limited group of innovative universities dedicated to the development of an innovative culture in its institutions, and to play a catalytic role for innovation in industry and for society at large.

The consortium has over the years worked on a number of activities within the fields of Education, Research, Regional Development and Institutional Development.

ECIU has established an 'Extended Secretariat' to support networking activities. Each partner has appointed a 'local co-ordinator' who promotes ECIU and facilitates students and staff who want to develop co-operative activities in the Consortium. The local coordinators can rely on the support from the Central Secretariat, based at the University of Strathclyde (Saskia L. Hansen

Those who want to conduct a partner search or who are looking for support to develop co-operative activities are invited to contact the ECIU Local Coordinator at their home institution of the central ECIU Secretariat.

• Student mobility and industry internships
• Mobility of teaching staff or administrative staff
• Researchers who want to organise a seminar for partner search in research, spin-offs or other forms of interaction with society

A more extensive description of ongoing activities can be found in the other chapters of this website.

The Executive Board is the decision-making body of the association and meets twice a year. Each ECIU member institution appoints one delegate for the Executive Board. Once a year a General Meeting is held focussing on topics of general interest to the ECIU members and the meeting is open to all interested staff at the ECIU institutions.