The business community often complains during consultations with the OECD Working Group on Bribery that its focus on criminalising the supply-side of foreign bribery creates an unbalanced approach to enforcement. In their view, companies face credible enforcement risks and high sanctions if they engage in foreign bribery, while the public officials who solicit or receive bribes seem to enjoy de facto impunity. More...
Human rights, the sometimes forgotten rights that we take for granted as we communicate freely with friends and family on the media of our choice, as we freely decide on our professional career or benefit from the right to equal treatment, did not even exist at the international level 70 years ago. This changed on 10 December 1948 when the UN General Assembly adopted one of its most important Resolutions ever: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In the aftermath of World War II the Universal Declaration was seen as one of the building blocks for the New World Order that Article 1 of the UN Charter calls for and which includes respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. The UDHR was the first universally agreed document to give all human beings rights against the state based on their human dignity. More...
By . Most OECD countries have very large government sectors: public expenditure amounts to 43% of economic activity, measured by GDP, on average across OECD countries. This proportion exceeds 50% in four OECD countries. The programmes on which governments spend have thus deep implications for people’swell-being and a country’s economic fortunes. More...
The European Commission published the first draft of its ethics guidelines for the development and use of artificial intelligence. More...
The 24th United Nations climate change conference (COP24) took place from 3 to 14 December in Katowice, Poland. It focused on the implementation of the Paris Agreement (2016) and on advancing the Talanoa dialogue, initiated by the Fijian presidency of COP23 in 2017. The urgent need to act at a global level was also powerfully stressed in the recent special report (October 2018) on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More...
During the course of this year EUA has been focusing on the capacity of university leaders to initiate and carry out strategic transformation programmes in a series of activities. More...
The conference theme Broadening the scope of quality assurance focused on how institutions and quality assurance agencies can build quality assurance systems that encompass a broad range of activities, including learning and teaching, research, governance and administration, and service to society. More...
The recommendation also urges for further protection of individual scholars and students with international protection status, by creating new initiatives within existing and future programmes such as Erasmus+, as previously proposed by EUA. The text was adopted in the European Parliament plenary the following day (29 November). More...
During 2018, four Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups, made up of participants from 38 universities, have worked on active learning, evaluation of learning and teaching, university teachers’ career paths, and continuous development of teaching competences, respectively. These meetings provided the participating universities with a unique opportunity for peer-exchange on current practices and approaches to meet challenges identified by the groups. More...
The proposal for Horizon Europe, the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2017), was first presented by the European Commission in June 2018. The proposal includes a budget proposal of €100 billion, new instruments such as R&I missions and the European Innovation Council (EIC), as well as a renewed focus on strengthening the European Research Area and reinforcing Open Access and Open Science principles. More...
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