The Voice of Europe’s Universities
News
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- 23 September
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EUA reinforces its team with new senior management
EUA is pleased to announce that it is strengthening its Secretariat with the appointment of two...
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- 23 August
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EUA supports urgent Scholars at Risk appeal to protect Afghan scholars, researchers and civil...
EUA along with more than 50 higher education networks, associations and organisations has joined...
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- 27 July
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Horizon Europe guidance available to applicants
On 23 July, the European Commission released the long-awaited annotated grant agreement, which...
Get involved
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Call for participation: Spotlight on recognition focus groups
Deadline: 30 September 2021EUA, in partnership with Crue, HRK and Nuffic, seeks participants for two focus group organised in the context of the “Spotlight on recognition” project and dedicated to key issues in the field of academic recognition. Both focus groups are free of charge and open to staff of EUA member institutions, who are involved with designing, managing or implementing the recognition of qualifications.
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Call to EUA members: celebrating 20 years of European university collaboration
Deadline: 30 September 2021As EUA celebrates its 20th anniversary, we call EUA members to send their testimonials of positive accomplishments they have been able to achieve thanks to EUA, as well as their views on how they see the future of the Association.
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Call for contributions: 2022 European Learning & Teaching Forum
Deadline: 4 October 2021The call for contributions for the 2022 European Learning & Teaching Forum is now open. The call seeks proposals for papers, workshops and practice presentations.
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Call for contributions: 2022 EUA Annual Conference
Deadline: 13 December 2021The call for contributions for the 2022 EUA Annual Conference, entitled “University values: what, why and how?”, is now open. The call seeks proposals for presentations.
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Publications
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This publication focuses on geopolitical changes, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, as well as the course of democracy, and how they may impact Europe’s universities. It outlines possible scenarios for future developments, as well as pathways for universities to pursue common goals.
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Higher education institutions are key actors in the transition towards carbon neutrality and sustainable societies, as well as in reaching the objectives of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and the European Union’s Green Deal. They address environmental sustainability in their research and education missions and are actively involved in a broad range of forward-thinking activities.
Expert voices
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16 September 2021
Making Europe’s digital transition into a knowledge-based transformation
EU policy makers often fail to consider the specific nature of higher education, research and innovation in legislation aimed to shape Europe’s digital transformation. EUA expert Bregt Saenen explains this missed opportunity and the urgency to give the academic sector a proper place in the digital space.
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14 September 2021
From digital makers to digital takers: universities and the digital transition
Universities support Europe’s agenda for digital leadership in their role as digital technology makers. At the same time, they must adapt to the growing digitalisation of research practice, but their role as technology takers is less visible in that agenda. As Sergiu-Matei Lucaci argues, the EU pursuit of competitiveness in the digital economy risks overlooking the impact of new technologies on knowledge production, and universities should seek to rectify this.
Member and partner news
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24 September 2021
Online event: "The challenges of sustainability in the academic and research environment: a...
The CRUI (Conference of Italian University Rectors) and the CPU (Conférence des Présidents d'Universités) are jointly organising a forum on sustainability, with the support of the French Embassy in Italy.
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21 September 2021
U-Multirank creates new "Higher Education Cooperation Index"
In its eighth annual publication, U-Multirank showcases how universities that collaborate with their local ecosystem and across borders perform better than those that do not. This multidimensional international ranking of higher education institutions compares the performances of higher education institutions independently with seed funding from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme.
