EUA’s “University Efficiency Hub” is now online. Launched at the 4th EUA Funding Forum, the portal allows university practitioners and policy makers across Europe to share knowledge and hands-on experience in efficiency, effectiveness and value for money in the field of higher education. It provides information on national frameworks, as well as institutional good practices and a self-evaluation tool for universities to move forward in their strategies. More...

EUA is pleased to present “Trends 2018: Learning and teaching in the European Higher Education Area”. This flagship report gathers data from more than 300 higher education institutions in 48 European countries. Trends 2018 examines how learning and teaching at European higher education institutions evolves in the context of changing demands, technological and societal development and European- and national-level policies and reforms. More...

The road towards Horizon Europe reached a new milestone in September with discussions in the European Parliament on possible amendments to the Commission’s proposals (see the series of amendments put forward by EUA and 12 other university associations). More...

The final conference of the inHERE project (Higher Education Supporting Refugees in Europe) held on 19 September 2018 in Brussels was not only an opportunity to present the outcomes of the project, but also offered a platform for exchange with other EU co-funded projects on the situation of refugees in higher education and research, as well as with international organisations and different Directorates General of the European Commission. More...

The European Parliament approved the European Copyright Directive on 12 September 2018, paving the way for the final round of negotiations. EUA has followed the issue closely since the European Commission first tabled the proposal in 2016. The Association regrets that the European Parliament did not enhance the Commission’s limited proposal for text and data mining (TDM) in Article 3 of the Directive. EUA also regrets the approval of Article 13 to filter and monitor user-generated content. More...

A European Parliament report released before the vote is very critical of the Orbán government’s democratic record and points to the “existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded.” The report lists the values, including those relevant for universities: academic freedom, freedom of expression and assembly, and the right to and freedom of education. More...

Under the Erasmus+ project European Forum for Enhanced Collaboration in Teaching (EFFECT), EUA and 11 partners from 10 different countries have been exploring approaches for teaching enhancement and institutional strategies in learning and teaching. More...

East Kazakhstan State Technical University invites applications for short-term visiting lecturer/professor posts in the fields of IT Technology, Engineering, Metallurgy, Geology, Economics, and Construction. More...

The objective of the event is to provide a unique international perspective on technology, applications, standards and policy pertaining to smart grids as enablers for smart cities and other smart community solutions. More...

Would you like to know more about how things work in open access? In collaboration with the Universitat Jaume I and the rest of Catalonia's universities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is again organizing its free course on open access, which is run via Twitter. More...