Higher education, research, innovation: Best of News Tank Academic Interviews since January 2025

From Enrico Letta's "sound of alarm" about the need to triple Community investment in alliances, to the call of UUKi (Universities UK international) to rebuild collaboration between states within Horizon Europe, to the need to maintain synergy between research and education in the next Multiannual Financial Framework, News Tank has covered the major topics in the news with numerous leading figures in higher education and R&I since 01/01/2025. Here is a selection of them.

The topic of European university alliances was at the heart of interviews conducted in the first half of the year, with questions about the European degree with Romita Iucu, Co-Chair of the ForEU European Degree subgroup of European Universities, and Meritxell Chaves, Secretary General of the Charm-EU alliance, as well as R&I activities in alliances, with Mattia Bellotti, Secretary General of Eutopia...

In a geopolitical context where borders are tending to close, the topic of internationalisation was also discussed, notably with the rectors of Belgian universities KU Leuven and Université Catholique de Louvain, Luc…