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Nov2020KU Leuven: European Capital of Innovation
Rector Luc Sels, KU Leuven “Stagnation is the worst thing that can happen to you as a scientist”. This is how Emmanuelle Charpentier reacted when she, together with Jennifer Doudna, received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at KU Leuven in 2016. Both scientists received this academic tribute for their fundamental contribution to the understanding […]
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Nov2020Challenges and future of internationalisation in the European Knowledge Area
The Coimbra Group is organising a High-level webinar on Education Policy focusing in the “Challenges and future of internationalisation in the European Knowledge Area”…
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Oct2020We cannot afford to let down Europe’s next generation of researchers
Twenty years after its inception, the European Commission adopted last month a Communication on a new European Research Area (ERA). The Coimbra Group welcomes the timely publication of this roadmap…
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Oct2020Coimbra Group Statement on the Multiannual financial framework (MFF)
As new rounds of negotiations are set to take place this week between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the Coimbra Group…
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Oct2020Coimbra Group Three Minute Thesis Final Winner Announced
Congratulations to Maria Francesca Di Filippo on winning the 2020 edition of the Coimbra Group Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! A PhD candidate at the University of Bologna, Maria Francesca talked to our audience about how her research work attempts to improve the properties of bioplastic to make it more competitive when it comes to replacing plastic.
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Oct20203MT Final and Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize for Erasmus students Award Ceremony
The Coimbra Group is delighted to invite you to the live final of the Coimbra Group Three Minute Thesis competition on 22 October at 10am (CET), followed by the Award Ceremony for the 2020 Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize for Erasmus students.
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Sep2020First scientific paper on the Coimbra Group Internationalisation Benchmarking
Professors Ludovic Thilly, Jürgen Barkhoff and Daniel Donoghue, respectively Chair, Vice-Chair and member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group, co-authored with Professors Helen Spencer-Oatey and Daniel Dauber (University of Warwick) and Nick Pidgeon (i-graduate), the first scientific paper on the new approach used for benchmarking internationalisation within the Coimbra Group. The article was […]
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Sep2020Coimbra Group first reaction to the EC Communication on European Education Area
The Coimbra Group welcomes the Communication from the European Commission on achieving the EEA by 2025 whose objective is to make the EEA (finally) a reality, an objective to which universities (and in particular the Coimbra Group) have made a constant and significant contribution for decades. The vision and roadmap proposed by the Commission are […]
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Sep2020Promoting the European Way of Life
The new European ’education package’ should be characterized by excellence, lifelong learning, inclusiveness and diversity. Deeper, transnational, and interdisciplinary education is more urgent than ever! This was the core message put forward by The European Commission Vice-President
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Sep2020Second exchange of views with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
Professors Ludovic Thilly and Jürgen Barkhoff, respectively Chair and Vice-Chair of the Executive Board, and Emmanuelle Gardan, Brussels Office Director, met online with the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
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Sep2020Coimbra Group Student Exchange Network – 20 years of success
The academic year 2000-01 the Coimbra Group universities exchanged the first Student Exchange Network “SEN” students…
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Sep2020Coimbra Group at the Research and Innovation Days
The 2020 edition of the Research and Innovation Days took place virtually from 22 to 24 September, attracting a record number of 35 000 participants
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Sep2020First European Conference on Moving the Frontier of the Macroeconomic Modelling of Research & Innovation
Elmer Sterken, economist, University of Groningen, member of the Coimbra Group Executive Board It is something that academics consider to be an absolute truth: investment in research and innovation is beneficial to societies. In economic terms: there is a positive net return on investment in research and innovation. But in reality the returns are uncertain […]
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Sep2020Coimbra Group Position Paper on Digital Education Action Plan
The Coimbra Group has submitted a position paper in reply to the Eu consultation on the new Digital Education Plan.
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Aug20202020-2021, an unprecedented academic year for the European Higher Education, Research and Innovation Areas
The agenda of the 2019-2020 academic year was always expected to be busy with the appointment of a new European Commission, the final discussion rounds and decisions on Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programmes,…
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Jul2020A collective outlook on the next academic year at Coimbra Group universities
In autumn 2020, the European Commission will put forward a Communication on achieving the European Education Area by 2025. As part of the co-creation process of this Communication…
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Jul2020Joint statement on UK participation in Horizon Europe
The Coimbra Group has joined over a hundred organisations and individuals in signing a statement on UK participation in Horizon Europe.
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Jul2020EU Council reaches accord on MFF and recovery plan: a missed opportunity for education and research
July has been a crucial month for EU policy making and the future of higher education and research. On 21 July, after four days and four nights of complex discussions, EU leaders finally reached a historic accord on a € 1.824 billion package…
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Jul2020#EUInvestInKnowledge
Fifteen European associations of universities unite and call on European leaders to step up investment in excellent, cross-border research, education and innovation
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Jul2020Coimbra Group members strongly represented in the European Universities initiative
The European Commission has revealed the 24 new European Universities that will join the first cohort of 17 alliances launched in 2019…