This report contains more than 30 structural indicators that focus on country progress and key policy developments in five areas:  early childhood education and care, achievement in basic skills, higher education, graduate employability, and learning mobility. Information covers all the EU Member States as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Turkey. The reference year is 2014/15. Click here to download the publication. More...

The European Commission’s new Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) was launched on 10 November 2015 announcing the seven leading scientists who will form the first High Level Group of scientific advisors. The seven members of the High Level Group were selected following an open call for nominations and the recommendations of an independent identification committee. More...

EUA recently launched its annual Public Funding Observatory, which is composed of an overview report and an updated online tool. This year’s edition records worrying signals from Northern Europe, a region that has so far kept up investments in higher education and research. Concerns particularly relate to Denmark and Finland, where new governments have embarked on cost-cutting programmes for the sector. More...

The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (CDE) has opened registrations for its 9th thematic workshop on “Doctoral Supervision – practices and responsibilities”. The workshop will be held at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, on 20-21 January 2016, and will address the supervisor-supervisee relationship, institutional practices and how to engage with supervisors. More...

The next EUA webinar will be an interactive discussion on the top 10 key findings of the report “Trends 2015 - Learning and Teaching in European Universities” and will take place on 25 November 2015, 14.00 CET. More...

EUA presents the first European Atlas of Universities in Energy Research & Education, a compendium of European university-based Master, Doctorate and Research Programmes. The Atlas has been developed by the EUA energy platform, the “European Platform of Universities in Energy Research & Education” (EUA-EPUE). The aim of this platform is to support universities by addressing “grand challenges” in the energy field, in particular the transition towards a low-carbon society. More...