Higher Education

The Study in Europe initiative promotes European higher education internationally by increasing the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education institutions and facilitating student mobility opportunities. Activities include communication campaigns, outreach events, student information services, and promotion of study opportunities across Europe.

The project aimed to reform the quality assurance and inspection framework for teacher training, academic programmes, higher education institutions, and research activities, in order to improve the quality and coherence of higher education and research nationwide. Main activities included supporting the establishment of a quality assurance system for teacher training, assisting in the assessment and improvement of university curricula and academic programmes, strengthening institutional inspection and evaluation mechanisms for universities and training institutions, and enhancing the quality and relevance of research in line with national needs and higher education missions.

The initiative aimed to monitor the pathways of students and graduates across the EU by collecting and analysing comparable and standardised data on employability, lifelong learning, and social inclusion, thereby providing a harmonised European overview of post-university trajectories. Main activities included designing quality assurance and methodological frameworks for graduate tracking systems, supporting the collection of comparable data across Member States, and analysing results to identify good practices and disparities to inform higher education and vocational education policies. The initiative also aimed to provide reliable information to policymakers, universities, and European institutions to improve knowledge of post-training pathways and strengthen graduate employability and inclusion.

The network aimed to foster academic dialogue and research on Europe–Africa relations while strengthening university capacities in governance and quality assurance, and to produce publicly accessible educational resources and analyses. Within this framework, activities in the Maghreb included the evaluation of training for universities in Tunisia and Morocco on governance and quality assurance, supporting universities to modernise their internal quality systems, and encouraging interdisciplinary exchanges between researchers and students across the 20 participating institutions

The network aimed to foster academic dialogue and research on Europe–Africa relations, produce publicly accessible educational resources and analyses, and strengthen university capacities through international cooperation. Main activities included managing a cross-regional network of universities, organising collaborative research and teaching activities, and in the Maghreb specifically, evaluating training for universities in Tunisia and Morocco on governance and quality assurance as part of SPHERE, thereby supporting capacity building, policy dialogue, and exchange of good practices between European and African institutions.

The project aimed to reform the quality assurance and inspection framework for teacher training, academic programmes, institutions, and research activities in Burkina Faso. It established a quality assurance system for higher education, assessed and improved academic programmes and curricula, and strengthened institutional inspection and evaluation mechanisms for universities and training institutions. The reform enhanced the quality and coherence of training and research, and ensured better alignment between higher education provision, national needs, and qualifications frameworks.

The NEAR-ER network, supported by Erasmus, fostered academic dialogue and capacity building between European and African universities, including governance and QA training in Tunisia and Morocco. It evaluated training activities for universities on governance and quality assurance, and it contributed to strengthening university capacities and promoting interdisciplinary exchanges between researchers and students. The project organised capacity-building activities and supported universities in enhancing their governance and QA practices.

The project aimed to develop and support an EU-wide graduate tracking system based on comparable and harmonised data across 27 Member States. It analysed indicators on employability, lifelong learning, and social inclusion, and it identified good practices and disparities between countries to inform higher education and vocational training policies. The work provided analytical input and guidance to policymakers, universities, and European institutions on how to use graduate tracking data for evidence-informed decision-making.