by ATHENA | May 30, 2025 | News
Dutch academia is facing unprecedented budget cuts. At the same time, in 2024 the government proposed legislation (Wet Internationalisering in Balans, WIB) with the aim of bringing internationalisation into balance. The current government has added the task to...
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....
