The UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering” has organized the International Forum "Information-Communication Technologies and Higher Education - priorities of Modern Society Development" in Saint Petersburg on May 26-30, 2009.... read more

Of the 350 best performing research universities worldwide, Eindhoven University of Technology creates comparatively the biggest scientific output in cooperation with the industry. ... read more

The Executive Committee of the Euromed Permanent University Forum that took place in the Santander Group Office in Brussels on 22nd January this year. We hosted representatives from non-EU Mediterranean countries such as Hassan Nadir Kheirallah University of Alexandria, (Egypt), University of Mohamed V, Agdal (Morocco), University of Tunis, (Tunisia), University Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth (Lebanon), Prrincess Sumayya University, Jordan Tampere Polytechnic.The European partners were represented by the University of Rovira i Virgili in Spain, University of Applied Sciences in Finland, University of Foggia in Italy, and the European Universities Networks the Compostella Group and the Santander Group.... read more

The European Council Resolution (November 2007) clearly recognises the need to accelerate reforms in HEIs to foster their competitiveness, and explicitly invites Member States to take the necessary measures to enable HEIs to improve their management practices. However, national progress reports on the Lisbon Agenda fail to address the issues of the modernization of Higher Education. In HEIs, not enough progress is made in terms of improved governance, curriculum reforms and contribution to innovation and economic growth; Overall not enough priority is given to the need to invest in people and train them adequately for increasingly complex management positions. A climate must be created to point to the importance of investing in the professionalisation of HEIs both at the EU, national and institutional level. ... read more

The European Commission has opened the call for applications for the mobility projects for the academic year 2009/2010, under the framework of EM-ECW. ... read more

The SANLAT Task Force Meeting took place in Brussels, on December 2, 2008. The Santander Group members shared best practices in project management within the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window framework, and planned a new strategy for oncoming calls.... read more

The European Commission's DG Education and Culture has opened the Call for Proposals 2009 for all Multilateral Projects, Networks, Accompanying Measures and Studies under all Sub-Programmes, Transversal Programme (Key Activities) and Jean Monnet.... read more

EPUF, Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille II and Université Mediterranéenne Thetys organised the 5th Euro-Mediterranean University Forum in Marseille, on October 6, 2008.... read more

The call for applications is now CLOSED.... read more

The "Cultural Preparation Course for North African Students coming to Europe" is a project aiming at developing and organising tailor-made cultural preparation courses for North African students who start or willing to undertake a European study experience. ... read more

A new meeting of the Steering Committee of the AlBan project is currently ongoing in Bogotá, Colombia.... read more

The Santander Group offers an initiative fostering mobility of administrative staff under the ERASMUS Programme. It gives SG members the opportunity of exchanging knowledge and cultural experiences in one or two week placements at a university partner.... read more

A LEO-NET Workshop on "How to organize your Erasmus Student and Leonardo Graduate Mobility. Good Practices from application to final report" will be held in Seville, Spain, November 28-29, 2008.... read more

We invite all the SG members to participate in the forum discussions on the project initiated by Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen on degrees recognition within the Santander Group, aiming at promotion of joint implementation of the Bologna Process. ... read more

The Rovira i Virgili University organised the SG Liaison Officers Meeting 2008 from 9th to 11th October in Tarragona.... read more