Our association welcomes the renewed impetus for the European Research Area (ERA) and with a new position provides concrete recommendations on how to further reinforce the ERA.

Our association welcomes the continuous efforts to achieve the European Education Area (EEA) by 2025 and offers concrete recommendations on how to make it even more dynamic and excellence-driven.

Universities have been striving to innovate the way they work individually in the past decade. The pandemic might teach us to transform together at a larger scale than ever before, writes Mihnea Costoiu (Rector of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest).

As universities of science and technology provide increasingly important roles in innovation ecosystems, we also need to communicate more about the contribution made, say Yvonne Kinnaird, Morten Dalhgaard and Tim Bedford

Researchers’ employment conditions must be improved to meet Europe’s goals urges our President Rik Van de Walle in an op-ed in Research Europe

We have launched the call for abstracts for our Best Idea 2021 Competition, giving student-led teams from our Members the chance to design and showcase their ideas on how science and technology contribute to sustainability. Deadline is 31 December 2020 for the intention-to-submit.

The position of the European Council on the EU´s budget 2021- 2027 and the recovery plan, and its proposed further cuts to the budgets of the Erasmus and Horizon Europe programmes, should make the higher education sector reflect on its advocacy efforts.

In an open letter to the European Parliament's Co-Rapporteurs on the Recovery and Resilience Facility, our President stresses that the EU budget from 2021 to 2027 may not fail to support research, education and innovation

In an open letter to the European Commission and the European Research Council, our President emphasises our full support for open access to scientific publications and the implementation of Plan S in Horizon Europe

As we congratulate our Members on their excellent performance, we also take this opportunity to reflect again on the broader role of global rankings