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01 Feb 2023EUA Board urges Hungarian government to address autonomy concerns to ensure universities’ access to EU programmes
In 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.
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21 Dec 2022More Than Our Rank: EUA supports global initiative on responsible assessment systems
The 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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09 Dec 2022Universities commit to advancing research assessment reform, Paul Boyle elected to CoARA Steering Board
On 1 December 2022, the Constitutive Assembly of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) took place, marking the beginning of a new chapter in which a broad coalition of organisations involved in research assessment and their respective associations will work together to implement the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
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08 Dec 2022EUA Expert Group prepares next steps on Science 2.0/Open Science
On 21-22 November, members of the European University Association’s Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science (EGOS) met in Braga, Portugal, and online for the final meeting of the group in its current composition.
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02 Dec 2022Welcome improvements in the New European Innovation Agenda
Today, the Council of the European Union adopted Conclusions on the New European Innovation Agenda. The European University Association (EUA) welcomes this decision and notes the emphasis on a broader range of innovation processes and stakeholders that should have been included in the Agenda from the outset.
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23 Nov 2022Three candidates for EUA’s next President
The European University Association is pleased to announce that the Association’s Council has endorsed three candidates for the position of EUA President for the period 2023-2027:
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23 Nov 2022Have your say on Erasmus+: EUA is consulting higher education institutions
EUA has launched a survey to capture the experience of the European higher education sector with the Erasmus+ programme 2021-27. The results will notably feed into the Association’s contribution to the European Commission’s interim evaluation of the programme.
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18 Nov 2022EUA welcomes new members
On 28 October 2022, the EUA Council approved the applications of nineteen new members, as well as a change in membership status for one existing member.
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08 Nov 2022New iRECS project to tackle challenges in research ethics and integrity
The European University Association (EUA) has joined the “Improving Research Ethics Expertise and Competencies to Ensure Reliability and Trust in Science” (iRECS) project.
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07 Nov 2022EUA signs Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment
The European University Association is pleased to announce that the Association will sign the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and join the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).
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19 Oct 2022
EUA hosts first Research and Innovation Strategy Group meetingOn 14 October, members of a new group tasked with guiding the European University Association’s work on research and innovation came together for a first meeting in Brussels.
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18 Oct 2022Trial of University of Bologna student in Egypt postponed again
For over two years, Patrick Zaki, a student at the University of Bologna and human rights defender, has been detained and awaiting trial for publishing an article that refers to discrimination against Coptic Christians in Egypt.
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27 Sep 2022Launch of the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
An extensive co-creation exercise throughout the first half of 2022 that gathered the interests and perspectives of 350+ organisations from over 40 countries led to the publication of an Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment on 20 July.
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23 Sep 2022MSCA4Ukraine – Official launch and information session on 6 October
The MSCA4Ukraine scheme, funded under the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, offers dedicated fellowships to support researchers from Ukraine, enabling them to continue their work at academic and non-academic organisations in EU member states and Horizon Europe associated countries, while maintaining their connections to research and innovation communities in Ukraine.
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22 Sep 2022EUA joins European project to foster the development of Diamond Open Access Publishing
The European scholarly communication landscape has reached a tipping point in the last decade and is now in rapid transition towards the full-scale adoption of Open Access (OA) as a default practice for communicating research results.
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22 Jul 2022EUA sets up new Ukraine task force
The European University Association (EUA) has established a new task force to support the reconstruction of the Ukrainian higher education system. The decision to establish this task force was one of several taken in support of Ukraine during the Association’s Council meeting in Budapest on 27 April.
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20 Jul 2022Reforming research assessment: the Agreement is now final
Launched in January 2022 as a co-creation exercise, the process of drafting an agreement for reforming research assessment has reached an important milestone. On 8 July, the final version of the agreement was presented at a Stakeholder Assembly bringing together the 350+ organisations from 40+ countries having expressed interest in being involved in the process. Today, the final Agreement is made public with this news.
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15 Jul 2022EUA welcomes new collective member from Ukraine
On 21 June, the EUA Board approved the application for full collective membership by the Union of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine, taking the number of national rectors’ conferences represented within EUA to 35.
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15 Jul 2022MSCA4Ukraine: EU fellowship programme for Ukrainian researchers to be launched in September
The European University Association welcomes the European Commission’s recent announcement of a new scheme - MSCA4Ukraine - to be funded under the Horizon Europe programme’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
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14 Jul 2022Recognition of Prior Learning: launch of project to establish a European network
On 14 June the kick-off meeting of a project to establish a new European RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) Network took place in Vienna, hosted by the Austrian Quality Assurance Agency (AQ Austria). This initiative is a part of the Austrian 3-IN-AT-PLUS project, which runs from March 2022 to December 2024 with funding from the 2021 Erasmus+ Bologna call.
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