Education

The EC presents survey results that show how strategic university cooperation helped to cope with the situation and how COVID-19 affected learning mobility.

The European Commission wants to prevent a lost generation due to the corona-caused crisis and proposes a skills and youth package tailored to the challenge.

Finalisation of the Erasmus+ regulation, a push for digital education, a new impetus for the European Education Area, and cooperation in VET are on the agenda.

EU ministers adopted several conclusions related to the future of education, training, re- and upskilling.

The EC published evidence that shows how tertiary level graduates are doing and how Europe could improve access to comparable information on graduates’ careers.

The Council of the EU wants to support teachers and trainers in view of new challenges and to raise opportunities for young people in rural and remote areas.

The EUA published a briefing in which the authors look back at the 2008 financial crisis to draw conclusions for university funding now and in the future.

EU education and youth ministers met online to share information on implications of COVID-19 for education and training as well as for youth.

As Europe and the world grapple with COVID-19, guidelines and rules on international traveling will remain difficult to predict in the coming months.

The Council endorses investment in skills as a policy objective for the future Eastern partnership.