EUA is pleased to open registrations for the final event of the EUREQA project (‘Empowering universities to fulfil their responsibility for quality assurance’). The event will take place on Thursday 3 September, 9.00-17.00, hosted by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. More...

More than 230 participants met on 18-19 June at the Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, to take stock of the developments in European doctoral education over the last decade and discuss the challenges ahead.
The outcomes of the conference will form an essential part of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education's work on mapping future challenges in the field as part of its project “The Shape of Things to Come”.
Presentations from the conference are available here. More...

In June 2015, the European Commission published the Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures. The Charter provides non-regulatory principles and guidelines that can be used on a voluntary basis to define rules and conditions for access to research infrastructures. The Charter is addressed to research infrastructures, the institutions to which they belong and their respective research funding organisations. More...

The regulation creating the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) was formally adopted by the European Parliament on 24 June 2015, paving the way for implementation in the second half of the year.
Following the agreement reached in “trilogue” discussions between the European Commission, the Council and the Parliament, the vote confirmed that the guarantee for the fund will be financed via the reallocation of resources originally dedicated to the Connecting Europe Facility and the Horizon 2020 programme. The increased use of available margins in the budget nevertheless decreases the contribution of Horizon 2020 from 2.7 billion Euros to 2.2 billion Euros. More...