Category: Network News

REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Croissant Event 2024

We are delighted to invite you to our Croissant Event “Rebuild, Reshape, Revitalise: Accelerating the Research Assessment Reform” on 12 June 2024 in the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels (Av. de Cortenbergh 30)! As a development that bears the prospect to mobilise the full potential of all types of higher education…
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Towards 2028 – Shaping the Future of the EU Framework Programme for R&I

On 6 March 2024, we published our position paper on the future of the EU Framework Programme for R&I. At UAS4EUROPE, the network of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) in ERA, we believe that our approach to research and innovation holds immense potential for shaping the future of Horizon. Our position paper outlines our vision…
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Open letter of endorsement to Commissioner Iliana Ivanova

Today, the European Parliament approved the appointment of Iliana Ivanova as Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth! We congratulate Ms. Ivanova on her appointment and the entire European R&I sector for the necessary political leadership of these important portfolios. On this occasion, UAS4EUROPE Co-Chair Dr. Heidi Fagerholm, wrote an open letter to Commissioner…
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UAS4EUROPE Networking Conference 2023 – Executive summary

On 22 and 23 May 2023, UAS4EUROPE, the network of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Europe, held its biennial Networking Conference at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU. A high-level line-up of policymakers, interactive breakout sessions and a poster exhibition engaged the European applied research community to discuss Horizon…
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UAS4EUROPE Strategy 2023-26

On 23 May 2023, we published our new Strategy 2023-26. Covering our Dutch and Finnish presidencies, this strategy is centred around the motto “Empowering Europe to rise to global challenges”. As a guiding document for our work over the next years and after intense discussions with our members, we identified the following four main strands…
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UAS4EUROPE joins the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)

Following the approval of the General Assembly, UAS4EUROPE has signed the ‘Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment’ and joined the ‘Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment’ (CoARA). After its kick-off in early 2022, many actors in the R&I community discussed how the assessment of research should develop in a way that values different types of research and…
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New Chair of UAS4EUROPE: Luciana Vaccaro hands over to Marjolijn Brussaard

Since 1 June 2022, Marjolijn Brussaard, Prof. Em. (Vereniging Hogescholen) is new Chairwoman of UAS4EUROPE and forms the network’s Executive Committee together with Dr. Heidi Fagerholm (Arene) until May 2024. UAS4EUROPE looks forward to the next two years of strengthening the voice of universities of applied sciences (UAS) in Europe with the Netherlands Association of…
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EURASHE Annual Conference – 23 & 24 May 2022

On 23 and 24 May 2022, our partner EURASHE is organising its 31st annual conference “Next Generation PHE: Skills relevance, Inclusion, Digitalisation, Innovation” at the EPHEC campus in Brussels.  During the conference, the big issues facing Europe as it emerges from the Covid pandemic will be discussed: How can we ‘build back better’ and how…
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UASNL Lunch Session: “Cybercrime & cyber resilience” – 8 April

On 8 April 2022, our partner Universities of Applied Sciences Netherlands (UASNL) and Saxion University of Applied Sciences will organise a lecture on cybersecurity as part of the All Digital Weeks. Professor Remco Spithoven, lector at Saxion’s Social Security group, will bring the audience state-of-the-art knowledge on cyber crime in the Netherlands with a particular…
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UAS4EUROPE signs the Stick to Science initiative

„Put science collaboration before politics“ is the motto of over 300 researchers and associations from across the research and innovation spectrum, which join forces via the #StickToScience initiative in calling the responsible politicians in the EU, Switzerland and the UK for a rapid Horizon Europe association. According to the signatories „the European research and innovation community is strongest when…
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