Salamanca, Spain, 29-30 March 2001
The European University Association was created by the merger of two existing organisations at its first Convention in Salamanca, Spain in 2001. The Convention produced the Salamanca Declaration
which defined the values of EUA and the direction of the work the Association would undertake in its first years.
Over 300 European higher education institutions and their main representative organisations gathered in Salamanca and reaffirmed their support to the principles of the Bologna Declaration and their commitment to the creation of the European Higher Education Area by the end of the decade.