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Read moreThe European University Association condemns the recent decision by the Swedish government to shorten the mandate of external members of university boards from three years to 17 months.
Read moreOn 19 April 2023, the EUA Council approved the applications of 13 new members.
Read moreThe European University Association, alongside several fellow associations that represent universities and university libraries, has called for the EU’s co-legislators to ensure that the proposed Data Act ensure fair access to data for research purposes.
Read moreIn its input to a European Commission public consultation on emerging virtual worlds (e.g. metaverses), the European University Association has highlighted that universities are important users, as well as creators, of virtual and augmented reality technologies.
Read moreThe European University Association (EUA) fully supports the environmental objectives outlined in the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy regulation. However, broadening the application of the Do No Significant Harm principle to all projects under European R&I framework programmes (i.e. Horizon Europe and any eventual successor programme), as foreseen in the European Commission’s proposal for the recast of the EU Financial Regulation, is still premature.
Read moreThe European University Association (EUA) is pleased to announce that Josep M. Garrell will be its next President. He was elected this morning at the EUA General Assembly in Gdańsk, and will succeed Michael Murphy, former President of University College Cork, who has served in the role since 2019.
Read moreThe European University Association has urged the European Commission to be mindful of not letting the notion of protection stand in the way of dialogue between a multitude of actors, both within European societies and globally.
Read moreOn 30 March, members of the new EUA Expert Group on Innovation came together for a first meeting in Brussels.
Read moreOn 16 March, the first meeting of the newly recomposed European University Association Expert Group on Open Science (EGOS) took place in Brussels.
Read moreThe DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) project has recently launched a survey on Diamond Open Access and the institutional publishing landscape.
Read moreIn response to the European Commission’s public consultation to evaluate the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF), the European University Association (EUA) has developed a set of recommendations on the future development of qualifications frameworks. EUA has long played an active role in this area, as a member of the EQF Advisory Group since 2009.
Read moreThe European University Association (EUA) strongly welcomes the words of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that the agreement on the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland will unblock the association of the United Kingdom to European Union programmes, in particular to the Horizon Europe programme.
Read moreAs part of a recent public consultation conducted by the European Commission on the past, present and future of the European research and innovation framework programmes, the European University Association has outlined a series of recommendations aiming to improve Horizon Europe and contribute to the design of the programme that will succeed it.
Read moreIn a new statement, the European University Association and CESAER, an association of universities of science and technology in Europe, have expressed their shared concern about the unbalanced share of funding for research projects within the Horizon Europe clusters under the programme’s second pillar in comparison to projects further along in their development and implementation phases.
Read moreCurrent crises, and the geo-political, economic, social, environmental and technological change and uncertainty that they bring, are impacting how universities work, follow their missions and collaborate with European and global partners. To address this fundamental challenge, European cooperation, both between universities and at policy level, plays a vital role.
Read moreOn 27 January 2023, the EUA Council approved the applications of ten new members.
Read moreThe European University Association is pleased to announce that the Association’s Council has endorsed candidates for the EUA Board for the period 2023-2027:
Read moreIn accordance with a December 2022 Council of the European Union decision to protect “the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary”, the European Commission has ceased to enter into legal commitments with public interest trusts under Hungarian law and the entities that they maintain.
Read moreThe European University Association (EUA) is pleased to become a supporting organisation for the More Than Our Rank initiative, promoted by the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS).
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