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On 31 October 2025, the European University Association’s Council approved multiple membership applications.
EUA is pleased to welcome 11 universities as individual full members:
In addition, two organisations have become EUA affiliates:
And EUA’s Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) also welcomes three new affiliates:
Across EUA’s different membership categories, members benefit from a unique network and have access to a wealth of knowledge that contributes to universities’ development. For more information, please contact membership@eua.eu.
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At a time when universities across Europe face a range of financial and competitive pressures, we have focused in 2013 on reinforcing EUA's position as Europe's largest and most comprehensive universi ...
In 2012 EUA redoubled efforts to support its broad and diverse membership on a range of topics identified as priorities in the course of the 2011 strategic review. ...
Since EUA was formed a decade ago, membership has grown each year making it the largest and most comprehensive organisation representing universities. This trend continued in 2011 with nearly 30 new i ...
EUA has continued to develop and grow in 2010, ending the year with 850 members and affiliates from 47 countries, with 25 new individual full members from 10 different countries, including 10 Universi ...
The discussions on the role and membership of EUA and the adoption of revised statutes in 2008 have led to increased interest in EUA and its activities in support of universities. ...
This has been another exciting year in the development of the European University Association. ...
EUA has continued to grow in 2007, thus representing an ever larger number of universities and university associations across Europe with increasingly different profiles and needs. At the same time th ...
EUA members’ commitment to and interest in their association has grown significantly in 2006. ...
2005 was a very important year for EUA. It marked the completion in the first phase of the life of the Association, piloted by the founding President and Board. ...
The growth in membership that we have seen since the creation of EUA in 2001 continued apace in 2004 with a record sixty-one new members from twenty-eight countries joining the Association, bringing t ...
At the end of 2002, EUA membership included 634 individual universities and 34 national rectors’ conferences. ...
The objective was clear: EUA should bring together the strengths of both the Confederation of EU Rectors’ Conferences and the CRE (Association of European Universities), in order to ensure that Euro ...
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