by ATHENA | May 30, 2025 | News
In an era of mounting competition and fragmentation, Europe finds itself at a crucial crossroads. The evolving global landscape requires bold, strategic, and political decisions, not only in economic and security matters but also in research and innovation (R&I)...
by ATHENA | May 28, 2025 | News
The European University Association (EUA) published the report ‘Key principles for attractive and sustainable academic careers: Final report of the EUA Task-and-Finish Group on Academic Careers’ on 27 May 2025. The main message of the report is that a...
by ATHENA | May 28, 2025 | News
On 28 May 2025, the European Commission unveiled the EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy, “Choose Europe to Start and Scale,” as part of President von der Leyen’s broader “Choose Europe” initiative. This strategy aims to make Europe the leading destination for global...
by ATHENA | May 28, 2025 | News
YERUN (the Young European Research Universities Network) welcomes the formal agreement reached today by the Competitiveness Council to adopt on 26-27 June the second European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda 2025–2027 as a Council Recommendation on the ERA...
by ATHENA | May 28, 2025 | News
In March 2025, The Guild and LERU jointly published a powerful open letter, supported by national rectors’ conferences representing over 1,000 universities across Europe, other European university networks, and personally signed by more than 200 university leaders....
by ATHENA | May 28, 2025 | News
The European University Association (EUA) has published a statement welcoming the political agreement reached by the Competitiveness Council on 23 May 2025 on the Council Recommendation on the European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda 2025–2027, and expressing its...