EU-CONEXUS Annual Closing Conference

On 1st of July, 2020, we celebrated the end of the first academic year of EU-CONEXUS with a virtual conference attended by over 230 participants: members of the academic and administrative staff of the 6 partner universities, students, members of the EU-CONEXUS External Advisory Board, representatives of national HE institutions and of other European University alliances.

The event started with a presentation by Elena Tegovska from the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC), in which she talked about the possibilities as well as the challenges of the European University alliances. She also presented the policy developments related to the Universities of the future and the next steps of the European Commission within the European Universities initiative, such as: new Erasmus+ programme, a framework for a European degree, support in implementing the European Student Card Initiative, the possibility of an extension of financing for the European Universities alliances.

In the second part of the event, the leaders of each Work Package in the project presented the milestones achieved and the challenges encountered during the first year of EU-CONEXUS activities. The members of the Governing Board and the External Advisory Board commented on the ambitious goals set in the project, underlining, among others, the changes in the national legislations through the accreditation process of the joint degrees.