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Continuous efforts in Europe in favour of student empowerment (EUA Learning & Teaching report)

"Student empowerment should benefit everyone and, accordingly, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has made continuous efforts to support this empowerment and harmonise standards. The Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), for example…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 393154
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🚨 [Agenda] HEIs conferences and events in Europe from 31/03/2025

UUK, The Guild, Leru, EIC... these institutions host events from 31/03/2025. News Tank's agenda aims to provide an overview of the events taking place in Europe's higher education, research and innovation ecosystem. We focus on: • events taking place in Brussels or related to European…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 393217
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Exclusive Ekaterina Zaharieva and EU Ministers’ initiative for scientific freedom and talent attraction

Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner for Start-ups, Research and Innovation, will hold a meeting with the research Ministers of the member states, in response to a request made by 13 research and innovation Ministers in a letter, News Tank learns on 27/03/2025. The letter, sent on…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, European commission, State, …
• Article # 393128
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New European Bauhaus Facility: €360 M from Horizon Europe to revitalise neighbourhoods through R&I

The European Commission publishes its roadmap for implementing the New European Bauhaus (Neb) Facility- a funding tool for the New European Bauhaus that fosters the development and scaling up of innovative solutions for the transformation of neighbourhoods, with an important R&I component, on…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): European commission, State, Funding, …
• Article # 393032
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Competitiveness: "Europe has to take leadership and ensure we can act more autonomously" (R-J Smits)

"More than ever before, Europe has to take leadership, and ensure that as a continent, we can act more autonomously", states Robert-Jan Smits, President of EuroTech and President of Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), during the EuroTech Annual Event 2025, held at the Bavarian…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Advocacy groups , Companies, …
• Article # 392885
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EUA Learning & Teaching Forum 2025: Main takeaways to achieve a "parity of esteem" with research

The EUA Learning & Teaching Forum 2025, organised by the association and hosted by the University College Cork (UCC, Ireland) on 27 and 28/02/2025 brought together more than 250 participants from over 30 countries to "give visibility to our work and good practice of member universities. It's also…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 392568
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EIC and ERC call for independence and substantial increase in budget

"It is vital that the budgets for the EIC and the ERC be increased to ensure substantial, attractive funding and more reasonable success rates for applicants. These budgets must be ringfenced in future EU R&I framework programme (FP10), even if included in an envisaged Competitiveness Fund", say…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , European commission, …
• Article # 392862
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Road to European competitiveness: EUA suggests the creation of an R&I and education dialogue

"Europe needs to invest, and it needs to create better framework conditions that allow the actors in these fields to adapt, develop and grow. For this reason, EUA proposes a research, education and innovation partnership for competitiveness, a dialogue between those that form the basis of Europe’s…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 392581
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Iceland: Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson appointed new Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs

Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson is appointed new Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs of Iceland, announces the People’s Party, of which he is Vice-chairperson, on 23/03/2025. As he represented the People’s Party in the Althingi (Icelandic Parliament), they also announce that Ragnar Þór…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, State, Policy
• Article # 392627
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FP10 and European Competitiveness: "We need an ecosystem that makes universities thrive" (J. Ay)

"We really need people who can develop and apply technologies. European universities aim to educate and train these people, ideally, even more than they do today, because the challenges are ever greater. We need an ecosystem that makes universities thrive", says Judith Ay, Policy Director at…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 392134
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