The Doing Business indicators have had unparalleled success in drawing attention to the regulatory burdens that businesses face in different countries, leading to hundreds of reforms worldwide to improve the business environment. More...
Getting Private Sector Engagement on the Right Track: Four Essential Ingredients
Developing countries face complex challenges that require solutions from a strong private sector in partnership with government and society. Many in international development are actively contemplating how to move such partnerships forward. More...
Trillions for the SDGs? Time for a rethink
In 2015, the world enthusiastically signed on to the challenge of transforming billions to trillions of dollars of private finance for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More...
Experience the eInfracentral platform and help to improve it
One of the key building blocks of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), eInfraCentral project was funded by the Horizon 2020 with the mission “to ensure that by 2020 a broader and more varied set of users discovers and accesses the existing and emerging e-Infrastructure capacity and e-Infrastructure Services”. More...
EUA outlines path towards greater autonomy for Kazakh universities
In the framework of the EU-supported project “Transition to university autonomy in Kazakhstan” (TRUNAK), EUA carried out an analysis of the state of play in the country, based on the Autonomy Scorecard. The assessment per dimension of autonomy (distinguishing organisational, financial, staffing and academic matters) allowed the identification of shortcomings as well as opportunities for improving the governance of the university sector. The findings are summarised in a publicly accessible report. More...
Towards a more efficient use of resources in Horizon Europe: where do we stand?
The year 2018 has been particularly intense for the European research and innovation community. Since the release of the Commission proposal establishing the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon Europe, several milestones have been reached in the legislative procedure heading to the forecasted programme launch in 2021. More...
IEP publishes the Montenegro system review report
EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) evaluated nine Montenegrin higher education institutions in 2018. Based on the individual evaluation reports, IEP published in December a system review report, which examines common issues and challenges amongst the nine institutions and proposes recommendations to the institutions and national authorities. More...
2019: A crucial year for Europe and universities
In 2019, the EU will welcome a new leadership, face the final chapter of Brexit and set the rules for its new research and education programmes. At the same time, new technologies, larger and more diverse student populations, constraints on academic freedom and new ways to learn and teach will have a strong impact on the longer-term opportunities and challenges at Europe’s universities. More...
Latest developments in EUA learning and teaching activities
The reports by the ‘Career paths in teaching’ and ‘Continuous development of teaching competences’ groups are already available online. More...
Save the date - The Bologna Process goes Global: fundamental values of the EHEA beyond 2020, 24-25 June, Bologna
Taking a proactive, future-oriented view on the future of the Bologna Process and the EHEA, the event hopes to involve international scholars, students and staff, to both discuss the fundamental values of the EHEA, and to help elaborate a “Vision” for European higher education beyond 2020. Registration is now open and abstracts to contribute to the event can be submitted until 15 March 2019. More...