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On 17 June, EUA hosted a public event targeting the Brussels policy community on ‘Higher Education in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy’. This round table was prompted by an ongoing EU consultation on the revision/re-orientation of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP – deadline 30 June). More...

EUA has opened registrations to participate in the final conference of the FRINDOC project (Framework for the Internationalisation of Doctoral Education), which will be hosted by Imperial College London (UK) on 24-25 September 2015. The event will focus on institutional structures supporting international doctoral education. More...

EUA has recently published a report with the outcomes of the DOC-CAREERS II project – Promoting Collaborative Doctoral Education for Enhanced Career Opportunities (2009-2012). The DOC-CAREERS II project built on the first DOC-CAREERS project (2006-2009) and sought to further test and validate the main results of the first project, as well as to involve universities, their business partners and doctoral candidates with a view to collect “full stories” of collaborative doctoral experience. More...

Over 100 European universities have already responded to the invitation of EUA to contribute to the UNI-SET Universities Survey. The mapping exercise is part of the FP7-funded UNI-SET project that is intended to mobilise Europe’s universities to contribute to the SET-Plan objectives and the Energy Union. More...

The 10th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will take place in London from 19 to 21 November 2015, hosted by the Quality Assurance Agency and UCL Institute of Education.
The Forum organisers, ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE, have opened a call for contributions from QA practitioners in higher education institutions and quality assurance agencies, students, and researchers in the field. Two types of contributions are sought: papers and workshops. More...

The European Research Council (ERC) has celebrated its 5000th grantee through a series of events in Brussels this week. Eight years after its launch, the ERC marked this significant milestone on 16 June, through a debate in the European Parliament and a symbolic awarding of the grant. More...

The European Commission has published the fourth edition of the European Research Area (ERA) newsletter which can be viewed on the EC website. The issue focuses on the topics that will be addressed during the conference ‘A new start for Europe: Opening up to an ERA of Innovation’ to be held in Brussels on 22-23 June 2015. More...

On 29 May the European institutions announced that they reached an agreement on the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in the last round of the so-called “trilogue” discussions. The new financial instrument, which aims to boost growth and jobs in the EU, will be backed by a guarantee partly financed from the EU budget. More...

In order to capture the latest evolutions in European university governance and public funding, this week EUA launches work on the Autonomy Scorecard and the 2015 Public Funding Observatory. More...

The aim of the EC consultation was to provide the High-Level Group responsible for conducting the ex-post evaluation of FP7 with a diversified and comprehensive range of views about the functioning, achievements and impacts of FP7. EUA prepared its response in consultation with its Research Policy Working Group (RPWG), the advisory body on European research and innovation policy issues to the EUA Board and Council. More...