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University representatives – including around one hundred rectors – from around 150 universities in nearly 50 countries will gather next week at the University of Barcelona (UB) in Spain from 30 to 31 May for the Arab-Euro Conference on Higher Education.
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One of the important areas of EUA’s current work is consolidating the role of universities as key actors in European research and innovation and in delivering a strong European Research Area (ERA). For this reason, in July 2012, EUA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Commission DG Research and Innovation, and a Joint Statement with the Commission and four other European stakeholder organisations (EARTO, LERU, NordForsk and Science Europe), committing the signatories to working in partnership towards achieving the ERA goals.
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EUA is currently conducting the first pan-European study of the impact and influence of rankings on European universities, in the framework of a project entitled “Rankings in Institutional Strategies and Processes” (RISP), and in partnership with the Dublin Institute of Technology, the French Rectors’ Conference and the Latvian Academic Information Centre.
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On 2 and 3 May in Quito, Ecuador, EUA joined representatives of rectors’ conferences and QA agencies from Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador at a focus group aimed at assessing the outcomes of a pilot project for joint programme evaluation in the region. The initiative, launched by CONSUAN (the Andean regional rectors’ council) and supported by ALFA PUENTES, an EUA-coordinated European Commission co-funded project, aimed at stimulating dialogue on quality assurance approaches in the region and providing a platform for agencies and associations to work together around the issues of degree recognition and higher education quality enhancement.