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, have helped to establish student-centred learning and the active involvement of students in the learning process and in quality assurance itself as a norm", says the 'Learning and teaching to empower students' Thematic Peer Group Report, published by the EUA on 27/03/2025.

"In the context of DEI, the EHEA has more recently adopted Principles and Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Dimension of Higher Education in the EHEA, which aim to make higher education more equitable, inclusive and, thus, reflective of the diversity of populations across Europe.

These developments point in the direction of student empowerment becoming more universal and attest to growing awareness of its benefits. In addition, there are many policies and practices to draw on", states the report.

The report underscores that…