Trends in European Higher Education
The Trends Project is designed to gather reliable information about how the European Higher Education and Research Areas are being developed across the continent.
After five previous reports prepared for the bi-annual Bologna meetings of Education Ministers, EUA is pleased to announce that at the end of 2008, it has launched its latest Trends survey of higher education institutions that will be used for its 2010 edition of the Trends in European Higher Education Report.
The findings and conclusions of the Trends 2010 report will make a direct contribution to the discussion on the achievements of the past decade of Bologna Process, of the challenges lying ahead and of the priorities to be set for the future.
The report will be discussed broadly within the university community as well as with Ministers of Higher Education and other key stakeholders at a major conference that will take place in Vienna in March 2010. In order to analyse effectively the impact of the Bologna process on the daily reality of higher education institutions across Europe, it is essential that as many institutions as possible respond to the questionnaire.
If you have not yet received a questionnaire or if it has been misplaced, then please contact us at trends2010@eua.be.
Trends V (2007) - More than 900 European higher education institutions contributed to this report, either by responding to a wide-ranging Trends V Questionnaire
, or by hosting visits of research teams, or through providing input in other meetings. The report was presented at the Conference of Ministers of Education meeting in London on 17/18 May 2007.
Trends V shows the progress made by Europe's universities in implementing Bologna reforms, and outlines the main challenges ahead. It is thus a significant publication for all those concerned with European higher education, whether universities and students, or governments, business and industry, or other stakeholders.
You can download the Trends V Report: Universities shaping the European Higher Education Area here 
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View the Trends V presentation .
Trends IV (2005) was the fourth in a series of biannual reports providing up-to-date information on higher education developments in Europe. The first findings of the Project were discussed at the 3rd EUA Convention of European Higher Education Institutions in Glasgow, 31 March - 2 April 2005, while the final report was presented to European Ministers of Education at their Ministerial Conference in Bergen, 19-20 May 2005.
- Linked to this, co-author Sybille Reichert prepared for EUA, the report Research Strategy Development and Management at European Universities (2006), due to the fact that Trends IV pointed out that few institutions have developed institutional research strategies. The report focuses specifically on the internal and external issues which drive the development of research strategies in regards to issues such as promoting excellence, building partnerships with industry, recruiting top scientists and the scope and quality of research training.
The previous Trends III report (2003), produced for the Graz Convention and Berlin Ministerial Conference, introduced into the Bologna debates the perspective of over 800 higher education institutions. This was achieved through gathering information from a questionnaire covering all aspects of the Bologna Process. The analysis of responses challenged many pre-conceived ideas about the progress of European higher education reform, and raised a number of questions and challenges of institutional relevance that merit further exploration.
Trends Reports
Trends V: Universities shaping the European Higher Education Area (2007)
Full-length version in English 
Trends IV: European Universities Implementing Bologna (2005)
Full-length version in English
, French
, Spanish
, Catalán
Executive Summary in English
, French
, German
Spanish
, Catalán
Trends III: Progress towards the European Higher Education Area (2003)
Full-length version in English
, French
, Spanish
Executive Summary in English 
, French 
, German 
Trends II: Towards the European higher education area - survey of main reforms from Bologna to Prague (2001)
Full-length version in English
Trends I: Trends in Learning Structures in Higher Education (1999)
Full-length version in English