The European Research Council (ERC) awarded €647 million in “Advanced Grants” to 277 senior researchers in April 2016.
The funding, which is awarded under the “excellent science” pillar of the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, will enable the winners to pursue their ideas and carry out frontier research. More...
On 21 and 22 April the Netherlands EU Presidency organised a conference on philanthropy and social investments in fostering research and innovation hosted by VU University Amsterdam. More...
The Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany, Trier University in Germany and the University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Kosice, Slovakia were approved as individual full members.
The EUA Council also approved Yaşar University in Turkey as an individual associate member. More...
This EUA Webinar will look at these questions in relation to a forthcoming document from the EUA Council for Doctoral Education entitled “Taking Salzburg Forward” (referring to the Salzburg Principles and Recommendations). This document, which will be published later this month, gives recommendations related to the current state of doctoral education as well as its future. In particular, it refers to digitalisation, open access, research ethics and integrity, and the globalisation of doctoral education. More...
On the occasion of the two-day conference “Open Science – From Vision to Action” organised by Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Sander Dekker as part of the Netherlands EU Presidency, the “Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science” was released on 6 April 2016.
The action plan includes specific objectives to accelerate the transition to open science in Europe. More...
On 8 July 2016, the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission will organise an info day in Brussels on the calls for proposals focused on health, demographic change and wellbeing under the societal challenges pillar of Horizon 2020. More...
However, while educational reforms in Europe push towards earlier and longer schooling, some people make a deliberate choice to educate their children at home. In the past, this was the case for the parents of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, and Pierre Curie, among many world famous personalities, testifying that learning at home could be as beneficial as learning at school. Today's research evidence, mostly from the US, also indicates that home educated children nowadays perform as well as school educated ones, if not better. More...
The current migration crisis has emphasised the vital role of adult education in supporting the integration and skills development of migrants across the European Union. More...
New data from Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, shows that, on average, EU countries are on track to meet education targets for early school leaving and tertiary education. More...
Le 17 mars 2016 le Luxembourg Lifelong Learning Center a organisé, au Cercle municipal, une séance académique à l’occasion des 20 ans de formation continue universitaire au Luxembourg. Afin de souligner l’importance de la formation continue universitaire la remise des diplômes universitaires a également eu lieu à cette occasion. Voir l'article...
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