Delivering on the Modernisation Agenda for Universities: Education, Research and Innovation

created on 17 Mar 2009

This Communication stems from the dialogue that the European Commission has initiated in recent years with the Member States and the academic and scientific communities. The aim is to increase our universities’ contribution to the Lisbon Agenda for more growth, and more and better jobs. Europe’s 4000 universities have enormous potential, much of which unfortunately goes untapped because of various rigidities and hindrances. The Commission is urging Member States to free up the EU’s substantial reservoir of knowledge, talent and energy with immediate, in-depth and coordinated change: from the way in which higher education systems are regulated and managed, to the ways in which universities are governed. This Communication is the fruit of joint work by the Directorates-General for Education and Culture and Research, and covers all the activities of Europe’s universities, from their delivery of education, their research activities, through to their potential as drivers of innovation.

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