Making data FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable – is becoming more and more the standard expectation with regard to European research projects. The future European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will also rely on FAIR data. To make this happen, EUA will be a core partner of the project “Fostering FAIR Data Practices in Europe” (FAIRsFAIR), which starts on 1st March 2019. More...

On 1 February, 15 university leaders and managers from 13 European countries gathered at the EUA focus group hosted by Aalborg University in Denmark to discuss the role of universities in innovation ecosystems and exchange views on the findings of a study on the topic soon to be published by EUA. More...

ALLEA (ALL European Academies), the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, published a statement on 15 February calling on the Hungarian government to cease its infringements on the institutional autonomy and academic freedom of the Hungarian Academy, a long-standing member of ALLEA. More...

EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) underwent an external review coordinated by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) in 2018. As a result, on 21 February, the ENQA Board reconfirmed IEP’s membership for the next five years. More...

Universities are still male-dominated institutions. In 2019, 14% of rectors in 46 countries with EUA members are female, compared to 86% being male. The situation varies across countries as the proportion of female rectors is above the average in 16 countries, and below in eight countries. Notably, 22 countries currently do not have any female rectors. More...

In academia, we tend to agree that the purpose of higher education is to educate academic professionals who are prominent experts in their fields and disciplines. When looking at recent research one can conclude that expertise is seen as relational referring to the capacity to work with other practitioners in transdisciplinary contexts that are often multilingual, multicultural and multimodal. More...

With a disorderly Brexit now a real and fast-approaching threat, detailed technical guidance from the European Commission is crucial for those participating with UK partners in EU programmes like Erasmus+ and Horizon2020. More...

Over the past twenty years big strides have been made in Europe to advance gender equality in research and innovation. We have far more knowledge about the complexity of the issues involved and the ways they interact. More...