EUA launches ‘public funding observatory’ webpage

EUA is pleased to announce the launch of a new “public funding observatory” page on its website, where it will publish regular updates on European developments in terms of public funding of higher education.
Since 2008 and the onset of the global economic downturn, EUA has monitored the public funding situation in collaboration with its collective members, the National Rectors’ Conferences.
EUA has now designed a “monitoring map” where HE systems are grouped according to different categories on the basis of the data collected, and the evolution of the public funding received since 2008. This is accompanied by an updated version of the economic monitoring report – which provides further background and explains different trends. EUA’s monitoring has revealed some worrying trends such as massive cuts in higher education funding in a number of European countries, as well as the overall complexity of the European picture on this particular matter. All of the previous monitoring reports published by EUA are also available on this page.