The event is organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis (Tillväxtanalys), who have recently published a report about Brexit and Swedish universities. More...

EUA participated in a panel reflecting stakeholders’ views, alongside the European Court of Auditors and the European Parliament, and brought forward the outcomes of its own large-scale membership consultation on the mid-term review, to support the following points:

• Simplification must benefit the beneficiaries;
• Accepting nationally-recognised management and accounting practices is the most important step towards effective simplification;
• Measures presented on additional remuneration cannot alone address the challenges involved in widening participation;
• Financial instruments must be designed in full recognition of the specificities of research work (and therefore not be result-based). More...

The White Paper looks at how Europe might change over the next decade and spells out the choice between being swept along by those developments or embracing them and seizing the new opportunities they bring. It points out that countries will have to work closely together to achieve more and outlines five scenarios on how to do this, concluding that no matter what the cooperation model will be, Europe's prosperity is likely to depend on openness and strong links with partners. More...