News
... measures were contrary to the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union relating to academicfreedom (Article 13), the freedom to found educational establishments (Article 14 ...
12 Oct 2020
News
... institutions. The Romanian Parliament approved the amendment to the education law on 16 June. The move sparked an outcry in the academic world and among civil society organisations with many declaring ...
13 Jul 2020
Partners news
... where they are threatened due to the content of their scientific work or to the opinions they have freely expressed.
The Solidarity Fund provides postdoctoral fellowships enabling threatened academics ...
17 Apr 2020
Partners news
... draws on data from SAR’s AcademicFreedom Monitoring Project to identify trends related to violent attacks on higher education communities, including a series of deadly bombings targeting scholars and ...
29 Nov 2019
News
EUA is gravely concerned by reports of academics still being held in prison for having signed the Academics for Peace petition “We Will not be a Party to this Crime”, which addressed the situation in south ...
26 Nov 2019
Partners news
EUA partner Scholars at Risk released the report Obstacles to Excellence, mapping threats to academicfreedom that jeopardise China’s higher education ambitions.
As noted in the report, a small but ...
30 Sep 2019
Partners news
... the freedom of academic thought and self-expression. Vilnius University is among 1.5 percent top universities in the world according to the QS World University Ranking.
As one of the oldest and best-known ...
19 Aug 2019
News
... the latest infringement on academicfreedom and autonomy in Hungary, as well as a new step to expand the government’s control of research. EUA condemns this action and strongly supports the ...
05 Jul 2019
Partners news
... in society.
Signing the Magna Charta committed universities to valuing autonomy and academicfreedom and operating in accordance with them.
The document was drafted in 1988 and has served universities ...
17 Jun 2019
News
... being one of the more than 2 000 signatories of the 10 January 2016 declaration “We Will not be a Party to this Crime” of The Academics For Peace Group. The document accused the Turkish government ...
28 May 2019
Policy input
... that central values regarding academicfreedom, universities’ institutional autonomy, ethics and integrity are upheld within the European research and education system.
Therefore, the document outlines ...
15 Jan 2024
Report
... - organisational, financial, staffing, academic - the Scorecard supports an evidence-based dialogue on this crucial topic. This allows concrete benchmarking of national regulatory frameworks as well as ...
07 Mar 2023
EQAF Paper
In the era of globalization, ‘new’ policy issues appear in the process of Quality Assurance in Higher Education Institutions such as public confidence, the way of sharing academic values(institutional ...
21 Nov 2022
Report
... with an at-risk background, but also contribute to global research and knowledge development, and diversity of thought - all of which are cornerstones for academicfreedom and university autonomy.
The ...
19 Apr 2022
Policy input
This EUA policy input aims to inform the development of the European Commission’s upcoming “European Strategy for Universities”.
Expected for the end of 2021 or early 2022, the aim of the strategy, ...
30 Jun 2021
Briefing
EU policy makers are facing increased urgency to integrate and energise the professional labour market, especially in the context of the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the push towards the green and ...
16 Jun 2021
Policy input
In this EUA response to the European Commission Communication on a Global Approach to Research and Innovation, the Association welcomes the goal to promote global research and innovation cooperation built ...
15 Jun 2021
Report
The 2020 EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group on “Environmental sustainability of learning and teaching” discussed how learning and teaching can embrace and promote sustainability, and whether ...
19 Mar 2021
Policy input
... give direction to the EU’s international academic collaborations as the new generation of EU funding programmes such as Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ are launched and negotiations on the association of third ...
16 Mar 2021
Report
This report and the accompanying online repository bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. Gathered by EUA, together with the San Francisco Declaration on Research ...
14 Jan 2021