Formation Continue du Supérieur

The French government has just published its first higher education strategy, entitled "Fostering a Learning Society". The document identifies five strategic priorities, three levers and 40 proposals to be enacted upon over the next ten years.
The full French version and an English summary are available from the following links:
French version   English version. More...

The European MOOCs Stakeholders’ Summit will be held on 22-24 February 2016 in Graz, Austria. The keynote speeches will be delivered by Anant Aggarwal, CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT, and Pierre Dillenbourg, Academic Director of the Center for Digital Education at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and head of the Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction (CHILI) lab.
The detailed programme will be published in November 2015. Visit the event website to register for the event. More...

The 2015 EFMD Africa Conference will take place in Dar Es Salaam from 29 November to 1 December. The event is being organised by the Management Development Network (EFMD) and will focus on “What’s next for Africa”.
Management education in Africa is undergoing rapid changes. Disruptive technology, the need for quality assurance, international collaboration and the role of business education in shaping the economy, all set new challenges and opportunities for the continent. More information is available on the event website. More...

On 13 October, five principal European associations of Universities of Science, Technology and Engineering – CESAER, CLUSTER, EuroTech Universities Alliance, IDEA League and Nordic Five Tech – are organising an event to launch a joint discussion paper in relation to strategies and best practices in implementing the principles of innovative doctoral training, as well as promoting open discussion among the key European stakeholders and the audience.
The event will include a panel discussion with experts from the European Commission and different universities across Europe. It will take place in Brussels and the deadline to register is 5 October 2015. For more information, click here. More...

The call is now open for the European Foundations Award for Responsible Research and Innovation, an award that celebrates excellent European research practices (i.e. research projects and programmes) which incorporate elements of responsible research and innovation throughout the research process. More...

Mergers and concentration processes are on the rise in the university sector. Close to 100 cases over the past 15 years have been listed by the European University Association. They now feature in EUA’s University Merger Tool, www.university-mergers.eu, the first interactive online map of the institutions borne out of these processes.
Whether mergers/clusters are part of large-scale restructuring of the higher education and research landscape or a response to local challenges, public authorities as well as university leaders and managers need to overcome similar issues. The University Merger Tool intends to support them by helping to identify previous cases of interest, and thus foster the exchange of experiences and good practice across borders. More...

On 24-25 September 2015, Imperial College London hosted the final conference of FRINDOC, a three-year project coordinated by EUA in partnership with the University of Hong Kong, Stellenbosch University, Imperial College London, the University of Bergen and the University of Camerino with the financial support of the European Commission. More...

On 24-25 September 2015, the Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science met in Brussels for the first time. The Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science was set up by decision of the EUA Council in January 2015, in order to expand the work of EUA’s Open Access taskforce, which operated between 2012 and 2014, and to take account of the implications of the Science 2.0 tools and Open Science for universities. More...