The Santander Group Network is a partner in the project Erasmus Mundus Action IV Project led by the University of Granada "Cultural preparation of North African students coming to study in Europe".... read more

The Santander Group held its annual General Assembly, hosted by the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on 12-13 June 2009. The central theme of this General Assembly was “Santander Universities in a competitive and changing world: Strengthening ties”.... read more

The 2009 Summer School will take place in Catania from July 5th to 12th 2009 on the theme of "Recent Developments for Modelling Environmental System".... read more

MODERN is a three-year EU-funded structural project in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme which is developed under the leadership of ESMU, in a consortium with 9 core partners and 26 associate partner European associations (including the Santander Group) and academic providers of higher education management (HEM) training programmes.... read more

The workshop on the ERASMUS Placement Mobility for Higher Education Institutions took place on March 10th. ... read more

The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan is organising the next AMPERE NMR School, which will be held from 21st till 27th June 2009 in Zakopane (the Tatra Mountains), Poland. ... read more

The European Association for International Education 21st annual conference will take place from 16th to 19th of September 2009 in Madrid. The conference will tackle the issue of “Connecting Continents” by organising different sessions, workshops and poster sessions aiming to provide the participants with skills and tools they need to attract students from worldwide and simulate the professional development of practitioners in the field of international education.... read more

The European Commission, under the auspices of the Czech Presidency of the EU, has organised the Erasmus Mundus (2009-2013) Launch Conference on the 16th and 17th February 2009. The aim of the conference is to enable all the participants to exchange best practices in the field of higher education and to enhance the quality of European higher education by promoting dialogue and cooperation with third countries.... read more

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