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Apr2021Key takeaway messages from discussions between Coimbra Group task group on post-Brexit UK-EU exchange & relevant stakeholders
The task group on post-Brexit UK-EU exchange has consulted widely on the implications of the UK’s decision for student and staff exchanges and for academic partnerships. Our findings…
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Apr2021“No changes in geo-political structures or inter-governmental agreements will diminish our enthusiasm for, and commitment to, internationalisation”
In the Coimbra newsletter dated 30 September 2019, we wrote about the aspects of Brexit which most concerned us at that timepoint. Now that Brexit has been completed,…
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Apr2021CHINLONE project and the development of Myanmar Higher Education
On 29 April 2021, the University of Bologna organized the online seminar “Navigating the Evolution of Myanmar Higher Education: Reflections”…
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Apr20212021 Coimbra Group Annual Meeting
The Executive Board and the Rector of Charles University in Prague, our hosts this year, had to take the regrettable but unavoidable decision to switch to a fully online event this year again
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Apr2021Seminar on Navigating the Evolution of Myanmar’s Higher Education – 29 April
This event marks the end of CHINLONE, a three-year capacity building project co- funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
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Mar2021Women in Science: Why we must pay attention to equality and diversity
Every other year on March 8th, International Women’s Day, the University of Groningen awards the Aletta Jacobs prize to a woman who has served as an example to others…
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Mar2021Walls, Laws and Migrations – Past and Present
The Coimbra Group SSH Working Group invites you to the online colloquium “Walls, Laws and Migrations – Past and Present”, on 27-28 May 2021.
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Mar2021“YEBO!” project online conference – Registration is open
Join us and our partner institutions in South Africa and Europe at the YEBO! online conference on internationalisation of PhD studies, on 12-14 April.
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Mar2021Career services in times of Covid-19: Challenges, Responses and Best Practices
The Coimbra Group is pleased to announce the publication of the report “Career services in times of Covid-19: Challenges, Responses and Best Practices”, developed within our Employability Working Group.
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Mar2021NESET’s new publication on COVID-19 impact on higher education
The Network of Experts working on the Social Dimension of Education and Training (NESET) has just published a new analytical report on the impact of COVID-19…
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Feb2021Alliances of European Universities: an unprecedented initiative at the crossroads?
During the first semester of 2021, most of the 17 first Alliances (selected in 2019) will enter in the second half of their (first) funding period: this will coincide with the launch, by the European Commission, of a consultation process on a “EU Higher Education Transformation Agenda”…
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Feb2021Roundtable discussion with Dr Herzberger-Fofana and Dr Ahmed Ouma
You are kindly invited to attend the two final events of the Coimbra Group Virtual Winter School on Global Change and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa: roundtable discussion with…
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Jan2021The Momentum for Innovation
The year 2020 and Germany‘s 13th Presidency of the Council of the European Union was marked by the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has proven to be a particular challenge for the …
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Jan2021Main Events of CG Winter School on Global Change and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa
We are happy to announce that the Coimbra Group Virtual Winter School “Global Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa – Chances or Challenges?” will start on 1 February 2021.
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Jan2021Call for Papers – After Crisis / Post-conflict context: Justice, Institutions, Media (JIM).
This conference will focus on the construction – or otherwise – of positive peace by institutions, the media, the judiciary, and society at large, in the post-conflict phase…
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Jan2021Coimbra Group Statement on UK’s withdrawal from the Erasmus+ programme
In light of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the new Erasmus+ programme, and given the significant engagement of Coimbra Group…
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Jan2021Coimbra Group Winter School: Global Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa – Chances or Challenges?
What are the economic, social and cultural effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in different African regions? During this winter school, 50 MA and PhD students at Coimbra Group and African universities will learn about impacts, challenges and responses related to Covid-19 and Africa thanks to…
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Dec2020Widening and deepening integration among European universities
The virtual EHEA Rome 2020 Conference and the subsequent Ministerial Communiqué have marked two further steps in the process of constructing a truly European Higher Education system…
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Dec2020Coimbra Group High Level Webinar on Education Policy
Whereas virtual exchange and digital education in general were already trendy topics prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sanitary measures taken all over the world…
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Dec2020Utrecht University now officially a full member of the Coimbra Group
Coimbra Group Executive Board Chair Prof. Ludovic Thilly has officially welcomed Utrecht University as the 41st member…