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Jun202325 R&I organisations urge the African Union and European Union to take a novel funding approach to science cooperation
Ahead of the second African Union – European Union Research & Innovation Ministerial Meeting scheduled to take place on 13 June 2023 at Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), where Ministers are expected to adopt the AU-EU Innovation Agenda and hence kick-start its implementation phase, Coimbra Group joins several other stakeholders in urging AU and EU leaders, and […]
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May2023Valuing student voice, engagement and partnership
President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, University of Galway When we at University of Galway launched our Strategic Plan Shared Vision, Shaped by Values in early 2020, we committed to ‘being here for our students, our society and our planet’. As President of University of Galway, who had been a student here in the 1980s and who […]
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May2023All roads lead to… Cologne!
The Coimbra Group 2023 Annual Conference and General Assembly is taking place this week, hosted by the University of Cologne. More than 250 representatives of the 40 Coimbra Group member universities will get together in the beautiful city of Cologne for a full 3-day programme. On the 31st the day starts with a meeting between […]
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May2023Join the Final Conference of the European Network on Teaching Excellence (21 June, Brussels)!
The consortium partners of the European Network on Teaching Excellence (E-NOTE) are delighted to invite you to their final event on “Higher Education Teaching Excellence and the Future of the European Education Area”. The conference will present the outcomes of the E-NOTE project, a Strategic Partnership funded by the Erasmus+ programme (2020-2023) with the view […]
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May2023Standing in solidarity with their values, Coimbra Group members vote to revoke the membership of St Petersburg University
On 26 April 2023, an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Coimbra Group (CG) Universities has taken decision on the membership status of St Petersburg State University (SPbU). In March 2022 SPbU’s membership had been suspended after the Rector of SPbU co-signed a public statement by the Russian Union of Rectors backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
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May2023Workshop on green transition and working life
Annette Retsch, Vice-Chair Employability Working Group (University of Würzburg) On 27th April the representatives of the CG Employability Working Group Annette Retsch (Vice-Chair, University of Würzburg) and Katrine Moland Hansen (University of Bergen) and Enora Bergot (CG Office) participated in the first workshop of the ERA4FutureWork subgroup that was initiated by the European Commission. The […]
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May2023EB Statement in support of the Swedish Universities and the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions
The Executive Board of the Coimbra Group would like to express its full support to the Swedish Universities and the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions[i] in their protest against the political decision to cut the period of office of university board members by half in order to increase the “security competence” of the boards. […]
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Apr2023Much needed policy experimentation on the European Degree Label – a challenging opportunity
Rector Pilar Aranda Ramírez, University of Granada The European Strategy for Universities and the subsequent Council Recommendation on building bridges for effective European higher education co-operation adopted on 5th April 2022 both make clear reference to the need to eliminate barriers to the development of joint academic programmes, and in particular of joint degrees, in […]
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Apr2023Congratulations to the finalists of the 2023 Coimbra Group 3MT competition!
This year again, the Coimbra Group 3MT Competition was enthusiastically received, with no less than 26 universities nominating a candidate. Following the voting process, we are delighted to announce the 3 finalists (in alphabetical order, not ranking order): Ida Cecilie Jensen (Aarhus University), Juhi Parmar (Jena University) and Michaela Raab (Edinburgh University). Congratulations to each […]
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Apr2023Webinar on ‘Disability, Diversity and Inclusion’
The Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow is organising, as part of the activities of the Equality and Diversity Working Group, a webinar on good practices in academic education for people with various disabilities, entitled ‘Disability, diversity and Inclusion’. The webinar will take place on Friday 28 April, 12 – 1:30 pm […]
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Apr2023Coimbra Group attends EU-LAC Knowledge Forum in Montevideo
On 24 and 25April, Latin America WG Vice-Chair Soledad Garcia Ferrari represented Coimbra Group at the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum held in in Montevideo, Uruguay. A joint initiative of the EU-LAC Foundation, the Uruguayan International Cooperation Agency (AUCI) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the event was attended by a wide range of […]
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Apr2023CG Survey results: European Universities Initiative & Student engagement
Background: European Universities Initiative – Coimbra Group Since the very start in 2018, the Coimbra Group has been actively involved in the co-design process of the European Universities initiative with the EC and has made the strong political choice to provide support to all member Universities during the calls. From the beginning, the Coimbra Group […]
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Mar2023Should universities go to war?
Vincent Blondel, Rector of UCLouvain, President of the European Alliance Circle U. These are troubled times. In many parts of the world, violence is mixed with injustice. Europe is no exception. Europe is experiencing both a terrible war in Ukraine, because of the Russian aggression, and the rise of internal forces that threaten the creation […]
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Mar2023New EU Innovation Agenda: Coimbra Group meets Silicon Valley R&I actors
Coimbra Group universities were represented at the First Silicon Valley European Innovation Days that were held on 21-22 March in San Francisco, California. The Chair of the Coimbra Group Executive Board, Ludovic Thilly, was part of the high-level delegation of entrepreneurs, investors, leaders of regional authorities, Members of the European Parliament and other innovation actors, […]
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Mar2023Coimbra Group Chair to participate in First Silicon Valley European Innovation Days
The Chair of the Coimbra Group Executive Board, Ludovic Thilly, has been invited to be part of the high-level delegation accompanying European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, at the first ever EU Innovation Days in the Silicon Valley (United States) from 21 to 23 March 2023. The delegation includes representatives […]
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Mar2023Coimbra Group founding member Trinity College Dublin receives EU Sustainable Gender Equality Champion Award from Commissioner Maryia Gabriel
On International Women’s Day 8 March 2023, Trinity College Dublin was named a European Union Gender Equality Champion in recognition of its century-old effort to work toward gender equality on its campus and in its sector. The new European Union Award for (Academic) Gender Equality Champions, which comes with a €100,000 prize, was presented to […]
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Feb2023Science is in the interest of community at large
Coimbra Group Executive Board In the face of the countless challenges our societies are currently dealing with, now more than ever science must be addressed as a collective enterprise. This has been precisely the approach followed by the Coimbra Group to respond to the consultation on the ‘Past, present and future of the European Research […]
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Feb2023CG Education Innovation Working Group Seminar on Learning Analytics: registration is open
The Coimbra Group Education Innovation Working Group, together with the University of Poitiers, is organizing a Seminar on Learning Analytics on Thursday, 30th March in Poitiers. In the context of the digitalisation of higher education, learning analytics is a more and more prolific research and innovation domain. Organized by the Education Innovation Working Group and […]
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Feb2023We’re hiring – Work with us!
Are you interested in joining our team in Brussels? We are currently hiring two policy and advocacy officers at the Coimbra Group Office. One job position has a particular focus on education, and the other one on research issues. These are two unique opportunities to work at the interface of policy development and hands-on cooperation […]
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Feb2023Open Education Week 2023: registrations open for the Education Innovation Working Group webinar “Hybrid and Virtual Learning Spaces”
At the invitation of EDEN Digital Learning Europe, a network for the distance and e-learning professional community, CG Education Innovation Working Group (EDU WG) will host a webinar, “Hybrid and Virtual Learning Spaces,” during the upcoming Open Education Week 2023. The webinar will build on the work conducted by the Education Innovation Working Group members […]