Universities in the UK and the rest of the EU support the ambition of a continued close relationship in both research and higher education and warmly welcome Barnier’s explicit commitment. As EUA and UUK have stated on earlier occasions, association agreements for the Framework Programme for research and for Erasmus+ are already used for third countries and are a quick, simple, win-win solution. More...

The EUA Expert Group on RIS3 and the Research Policy Working Group (RPWG) worked in collaboration on response. The Expert Group met on 8 March in Brussels to formulate the Association’s input to the consultation aimed at finding a fresh approach to European growth and jobs through regional innovation strategies. EUA’s response addresses the importance of political support, transparency and convergence of innovation policies and the need for more synergies between EU instruments and programmes. More...

EUA has joined forces with three other key representative organisations of European universities and research-performing and -funding institutions to congratulate the European institutions on the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and to call upon them on this occasion to overcome complacency, to take responsibility, and to provide new momentum, dynamism and equity to the European Research Area (ERA). More...