The Guild publishes its 2023-2024 Annual Report
The past academic year highlighted the growing importance of the R&I and higher education sector in Europe to respond to and anticipate global and societal challenges. Throughout the last few months, The Guild has continued its advocacy for EU programmes (Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, FP10), demanding an increase in investments and providing recommendations on how to further develop and improve the programmes to increase Europe’s competitiveness and resilience. The Report zooms in on our higher education and R&I engagements, featuring our contributions to the Erasmus+ interim evaluation, our recommendations for a European degree, our participation in the ERA subgroups and our activities surrounding timely issues such as the twin digital and green transition and our vision for the next framework programme for R&I. This issue also features the launch of the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE) in the summer of 2023 and showcases our policy work to create a sustainable and equitable Africa-EU funding scheme.
"The Guild aspires to be vigilant and attentive to new trends and challenges in the academic landscape and to uphold and boost its position as a preferred dialogue partner for EU decision-makers and relevant stakeholders. These ambitions can only be realized through seamless teamwork between The Guild staff and our member universities. The Annual Report – and the activities featured therein – testify to the strength of this teamwork." -Ole Petter Ottersen, Acting Secretary-General of The Guild.
The Annual Report highlights The Guild’s main achievements in 2023-2024. Read about our activities this past year via the links below:
Foreword by Acting Secretary-General Ole Petter Ottersen
A moment of educational change
Shaping European framework programmes for R&I
European Research Area in action
Making new forms of Africa-Europe research collaboration a reality
Université PSL joins The Guild
Interview with Henrique Santos, Junior Policy Officer