Both institutions also organized the Round table "Humanities and Higher Education: generating synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities" in the framework of the forthcoming 7th Higher Education in the World Report HEIW7. More...
2191 Higher Education Institutions gathered together in Lima to face the challenges of the region
They were invited to the official opening ceremony of the IX Meeting of Networks of Higher Education and Councils of Rectors of Latin America and the Caribbean organized by the UNESCO International Institute for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), with the support of the UNMSM and the National System of Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality (SINEACE). More...
54 networks bid to join European Universities pilot
The aim behind this initiative is to bring together a new generation of creative Europeans, who are able to cooperate across languages, borders and disciplines to address the big societal challenges and skills shortages that Europe faces. More...
GUNi welcomes the Academy of Health Sciences (Syria) as an associated institution
The Academy of Health Sciences is an academic, not-for-profit, private institution of higher education established in 2011 in Syria with the charter granted by the Council of Higher Education. The stated aim of the academy is to work in close partnership with the national, regional and international academic entities and institutions on the bases of mutual understanding in addition to provide high education medical studies for students. Currently, Academy of Health Sciences has been running School of Paramedics, School of Nursing and School of Physical Therapy. The academy has adopted a curriculum that emphasizes on academic health and academic teaching. More...
New collaboration agreement and round table "Humanities and Higher Education"
FUEN helps promoting bilingualism in Wallonia
Stickers and postcards made for the language diversity project "It´s never too late... monolingualism is easy to cure" were distributed by FUEN at the board meeting of the Association for the Promotion of the German Language in Wallonia / Verbandes zur Förderung der deutschen Sprache in der Wallonie/Association pour la promotion de la langue allemande en Wallonie. More...
Support for the MSPI from the Sweden Finnish Delegation
Finnish is an official EU language, but the current mainstream approach of the EU, with fewer programmes and bigger projects as well as tougher requirements in terms of co-funding, bank guarantees etc. makes it difficult for small languages to compete for the same funding as bigger languages. With the Minority SafePack Initiative FUEN wants a specific programme or budget line for smaller language communities. More...
FUEN has established its checkstones for the upcoming European elections
The Federal Union of European Nationalities invites political parties and their candidates in the European elections to find solutions to the concerns of autochthonous European minorities at the European level and draw attention to their situation. More...
Integrating internationalised learning outcomes
The European Parliament has been calling for “better defined internationalised learning outcomes” since the publication of its study ‘Internationalisation of higher education’ in 2015. However, learning outcomes – or, more correctly, intended learning outcomes – do not enjoy great popularity with academics. More...
Boost for Arab University Research
Although Arab universities have begun to allocate funds for scientific research and are showing an interest in global and regional rankings the quality of research is still quite modest. More...