EQAF has been co-organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE since 2006 and provides a unique platform for the higher education and quality assurance (QA) communities to monitor, shape and anticipate developments in the field. The main purpose of the Forum is to foster a dialogue on QA that bridges national boundaries and leads to a truly European discussion on QA in higher education, and to create a common European understanding of QA through discussions and networking among different stakeholder groups. More...

The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) held its 9th Annual Meeting on 16 and 17 June 2016 at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain. With more than 200 participants, it proved to be the largest in the history of CDE. More...

IEP offers a comprehensive, improvement-oriented institutional evaluation conducted by a team of experienced higher education leaders. The evaluation process and the report delivered by the team aim to support universities in developing their institutional strategic leadership and capacity to manage change. More...

On 15 and 16 June 2016, the EUA Research Policy Working Group (RPWG) met at the University of Warsaw in Poland to discuss EUA policies in the area of research and innovation. More...

EUA looks forward to supporting any European-level dialogue on the issue and calls for a sector-specific strategy focusing on flexible learning, career paths and social inclusion which would also foster intersectoral mobility – as EUA stated in March 2016 in its response to the EC’s consultation. More...

While EUA warned against a shift of money from the highly successful grant funding programme (see EUA policy brief, March 2015), the European Commission justified the cuts by arguing that EFSI would also benefit universities and research. EUA analysed to what extent EFSI has done this and found out that universities do not seem to be benefitting at all from the funding scheme. http://www.eua.be/activities-services/news/newsitem/2016/06/23/one-year-of-efsi-what's-in-it-for-universities

As the UK voted to leave the European Union, EUA shares the disappointment over the result with its member UUK and the British university community. EUA is very concerned about the insecurity this causes, notably with regard to the participation of British universities in the EU funding programmes as well as the long-term consequences for European cooperation in research and education. More...

On 1 July, Slovakia officially took over the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the second semester of 2016. The Presidency programme includes four priorities: an economically strong Europe, a modern single market, sustainable asylum and migration policies and a globally engaged Europe.
The consequences of the UK referendum and the discussion on the future of the EU represent additional challenges for the Presidency. More...

Universities from certain regions will have another chance to apply for funding for international credit mobility in 2016 under the Erasmus+ programme.
National Agencies in some programme countries will open a second round of applications with funds left over from the first round. Applications will be limited to those regions for which funds are still available. According to the European Commission these are likely to include: South Mediterranean, Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia and Russia. More...

Entitled "Universities in the Energy Transition: Focus on Energy Efficient Systems and Nuclear Safety”, the event is part of the ECE series of the UNI-SET project, a FP7 Coordination and Support Action implemented jointly by EUA and KU Leuven, representing the universities in KIC InnoEnergy. The overall objective of the ECEs is to mobilise the European university community to tackle the “energy challenge”, that is, the transformation of the energy system towards a low-carbon society, by fostering inter-university cooperation and enhancing the voice of universities in the development of energy policy at the EU level. More...