As expressed in its response to the Call for ideas launched by the European Commission on 16 February 2016, LERU is convinced of the need for a EU systemic approach on innovation. EU investment in innovation is strong (e.g. Innovation Union, InnovFin- EU Finance for Innovators, European Institute of Innovation and Technology –EIT-, European Innovation Partnerships –EIPs-, Joint Technology Initiatives –JTIs-, Knowledge and Innovation Communities –KICs-, etc.) but complex and confusing. More...

International Innovation Magazine explores the impact Brexit could have on funding, research collaboration with EU members and policy decision making with insight from Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary-General of LERU. More...

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has for many years now called attention to the importance of innovative doctoral education. In our latest, fourth paper, we analyse how LERU universities go about ensuring that they achieve their objectives to train doctoral researchers to the highest skill levels to become creative, critical and autonomous intellectual risk takers. More...

LERU emphasizes that EU research must take a global view. To tackle global challenges, European stakeholders must engage with international research institutions. It is clear that all actors involved in R&I policy - governments, research funders, research performers - must urgently take a global approach. More...

The Communication sets out how the Commission intends to achieve “the goal of a modern, more European copyright framework” through a set of proposals planned for 2016 and a long-term vision. With regard to Text and Data Mining (TDM) it is now time to walk the talk and to turn the irreversible but primarily implicit references, announcements and promises in the present Communication (and accompanying Q&A) into an explicit mandatory exception in the Spring legislative proposal. More...

Upon the invitation of German U15, the association of 15 research universities in Germany, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU), the Group of Eight (Australia), the RU11 Japan, the Russell Group (UK) and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities discussed the challenges for, and the future of, research-intensive universities (RIU). More...