Founded in 2017 as a charity,the University of the Underground is a free,pluralistic and transnational university based in the basement of nightclubs and actively working with both institutions and nightlife to modify power structures through events, engineering situations and experiences from within, whilst supporting and empowering countercultures-long term. As a charity, the hope of the University of the Underground is to bring generations together to democratise access to public institutions and trigger changes and critical reflections through the use of creative and experiential practices.With an explicit focus on political theory and philosophy,design of experiences, music, theatrical practices, film, social actions, and social dreaming;it aims to provide toolkits for members of the public and students to actively participate in revealing and challenging power structures in institutions.The University of the Underground supports unconventional research, countercultures, and practices that apprehend and challenge the formulation of culture, the manufacture, and commodities of knowledge. For the University of the Underground, it is essential to rethink education beyond national borders, but also to build a federation of cooperative schools globally to support the development, identification and empowerments of countercultures in institutions.The University of the Underground charity supports students from around the world by granting them scholarships while it co-hosts a master’s programme, the Masters Design of Experiences, with an accredited academic partner, as well as running public events, radio programmes, and workshops. The University of the Underground has a board of international thinkers, philosophers, activists, academics, politicians, musicians, filmmakers, innovative entrepreneurs but also creatives and curators such as Prof. Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot, Magid Magid, Massive Attack, Damian Bradfield and many other brilliant minds.