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Universities are key actors in the EU’s competitiveness agenda, through research and innovation, as well as higher education.
University leaders from across Europe are embracing the agenda, while warning against the risk of instrumentalisation, as a recent EUA report shows.
To better understand what this new policy paradigm means for the higher education and research sector, the authors spoke to university leaders from across Europe, finding that they see different opportunities and challenges depending on their own institution’s profile and mission. Nonetheless, the demand for interdisciplinarity stands out as a big opportunity for universities to contribute by playing to their strengths – as the only actors that combine different disciplines across research, innovation and education.
Looking beyond the immediate outlook for EU policies, the article also describes how EUA explored several possibilities for how the EU’s competitiveness drive might play out well into the future, using strategic foresight and futures thinking.
The full article is available in R&D Magazine: University leaders see opportunities in EU’s competitiveness agenda
