CESAER and LERU call upon the European Commission and the Member States to draft an improved Pact for Research & Innovation in Europe, with direct and immediate involvement of stakeholder organisations (SHO), representing universities.

For the second consecutive year, Aalborg University has been ranked highest of our Members in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings.

Our association calls upon the EU to tackle local and global challenges by assuming leadership at a global level, promoting agency of academic institutions and academics, and boosting systemic transformations.

Universities can take seven steps to meet the new demands of the twenty-first century, writes Ursula Staudinger (Rector of TU Dresden).

Our Board of Directors has appointed ​Christian Gerhardts (TU Dresden) as co-chair of Task Force Competitive Funding effective as of 1 April 2021

The Secretariat is delighted to welcome Louise Drogoul as Junior Advisor and announce that Mattias Björnmalm has been promoted to Senior Advisor for Research & Innovation following the completion of the Secretariat’s Result and Development Cycle.

"SaxoCell was awarded in the first round of the Clusters4Future competition to pursue its vision to build a living medicine industry in Saxony, Germany and Europe" says Ezio Bonifacio from TU Dresden and speaker for the SaxoCell cluster

‘With the coming research-data deluge already arriving in torrents, how do we negotiate tricky waters in data storage and resilience?’ asks Niall English (University College Dublin)

We have published our Annual Report 2020, which summarises how, despite the challenges and turbulence of the past year, we have made great progress as an association together with our Members.

If Europe is to make progress in tackling major societal challenges such as climate change, an ageing population and global pandemics, strong engineering competencies are needed, write Henrik Pedersen and Mogens Rysholt Poulsen (Aalborg University)