News

The 2022 edition of THE Impact Rankings have been published, showcasing how universities measure up against achieving the UN sustainable development goals, with our Members featuring prominently.

Our Director Elvira Fortunato has been appointed new Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, departing our association’s Board of Directors with warm thanks and congratulations.

Our Board of Directors has adopted a position ‘Guiding principles for Global Framework for S&T Cooperation` offering four guiding principles for governments, international organisations and other partners to consider.

Our association supports the sector-wide call for the exclusion of not-for-profit repositories, digital archives, and libraries from the obligations of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Our association calls upon everyone to support the ‘Stick to Science’ campaign for continued cooperation of Switzerland and the United Kingdom in European research programmes.

Our Secretary General David Bohmert writes in Research Europe that immediate Horizon Europe association is needed to bolster shared values.

Today, we publish two papers on Open Access (OA), a first one on successful OA implementation and a second one on OA for conference proceedings in engineering disciplines. On top of that, our association endorses the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

Our association, the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN), Science Europe and the University of Strathclyde launched a report to reiterate their commitment to the Call to Action.

Our Board of Directors has appointed Vojtěch Petráček (Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague) as our association’s Envoy towards the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Our Board of Directors has adopted a position ‘Advancing the flagship initiatives of the European Strategy for Universities’, offering expertise and cooperation ahead of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council of the EU meeting from 4 to 5 April.