Financial sustainability, increased
autonomy, appropriate governing structures and strong management and leadership capacities are key elements in order for universities to fulfil their multiple missions and respond to the current challenges in an increasingly complex and global environment. EUA’s work in these areas aims at developing and advocating common policies for European and national policymakers to provide the conditions and frameworks to establish strong,
autonomous,
well funded and financially sustainable universities. Diversification of missions and activities, financial strains caused by rising costs, new stakeholder demands, global competition and the global economic downturn all contribute to the increasing complexity of steering and managing universities. Work in this area supports universities in their efforts to improve governance and management structures in order to act more strategically and become more efficient and effective, in particular by identifying ways in which leaders can enhance their steering capacity.
EUA, involving member institutions and other relevant organisations active at European level, has undertaken a series of
projects in the area of
governance, autonomy and
funding and collected a broad set of comparable data. The analysis of this and best practice examples underpin
EUA's policy positions.
Individual universities are supported through the broad dissemination of the project results in a series of
publications and a variety of
events as well as through EUA's
consultancy services and
Institutional Evaluation Programme.
EUA’s work analyses each area individually but equally intends to demonstrate the links between governance, autonomy, costing/funding and accountability.
For more information, please follow the links above or
contact the Governance, Autonomy & Funding unit.