This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been won jointly by Jean-Pierre Sauvage from the University of Strasbourg, Bernard Feringa from the University of Groningen and J. Fraser Stoddart from Northwestern University.
The University of Strasbourg and the University of Groningen are EUA members.
The prizes will be awarded on 10 December in Stockholm. EUA offers its congratulations to all of the winners. More...

The Heads of University Management & Administration Network Europe (HUMANE) will organise a two-day seminar on “Access and Affordability in Higher Education: system-level and institutional responses in the early 21st century” from 4 to 6 November in London. More...

The European Association of International Experts (EAIE) Annual Conference took place from 13 to 16 September in Liverpool, UK. Michael Gaebel, EUA Higher Education Policy Unit Director, contributed to several sessions under the “refugee track”. More...

From 20 to 21 October 2016, the Magna Charta Observatory, together with the University of Sao Paulo and the University of Bologna, is organising a conference that will focus on “Reducing social inequalities, the role of universities.”
The event will commemorate the 28th Anniversary of the Magna Charta Universitatum and for the first time will take place outside Europe at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The deadline to register for the event is 30 September 2016. 
For further details, please visit the event website. More...

A new survey, supported by EUA and conducted in the framework of the SHEILA project (Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics), aims to provide clarity about this potential by asking universities to what extent they use and/or they are considering to use learning analytics and what their experiences have been. More...

Around 100 participants from 23 countries gathered in Turin, Italy from 26 to 28 September 2016 to take part in the 2nd UNI-SET Energy Clustering Event. Entitled "Universities in the Energy Transition: Focus on Energy Efficient Systems and Nuclear Safety," the event was organised by EUA and KU Leuven, which represents universities in KIC-InnoEnergy. More...

EUA presented the findings of the 2016 Public Funding Observatory on 6 October 2016 on the occasion of the 3rd Funding Forum at the University of Porto in Portugal. The data captures the very latest funding trends in Europe and offers the most up-to-date information on 30 different higher education systems. More...

The 3rd EUA Funding Forum, “Efficient universities: Value for Society”, took place at the University of Porto in Portugal on 6 and 7 October 2016. At the event, EUA brought together stakeholders from 35 countries, including university leaders and national and European policy makers to explore and discuss the sector’s latest funding trends, opportunities and challenges. More...

On 11 October 2016, government officials in the UK announced that EU students applying for entrance into an English higher education institution for the 2017-2018 academic year will continue to be eligible for student loans and grants for the duration of their degree course.
This means that EU students will be able to access the same funding they are entitled to now. Officials also stressed that the arrangement will be valid even if the UK exits the Union during the coursework period. More...

EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) will evaluate nine universities during the academic year 2016-2017. Five universities have registered for initial evaluations, and four have opted for follow-up evaluations in order to assess the progress made since their first evaluation. More...