COIMBRA GROUP

Coimbra Group is member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)

1. Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
3. Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
4. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy
5. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
6. Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary
7. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
8. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
9. Durham University, United Kingdom
10. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
11. National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
12. Université de Genève, Switzerland
13. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
14. Universidad de Granada, Spain
15. Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
16. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
17. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
18. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania
19. Istanbul University, Turkey
20. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
21. Universität zu Köln, Germany
22. Uniwersytet Jagiellónski Kraków, Poland
23. Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
24. KU Leuven, Belgium
25. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
26. Université de Montpellier, France
27. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
28. Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
29. Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
30. Université de Poitiers, France
31. Charles University (Prague), Czech Republic
32. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
33. Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
34. University of Tartu, Estonia
35. Turun yliopisto, Turku, Finland
36. Uppsala universitet, Sweden
37. Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
38. Vilnius University, Lithuania
39. Julius-Maximilian-Universität Würzburg, Germany
40. Åbo Akademi University, Finland

https://www.coimbra-group.eu/mission-statement/list-of-members/

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Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

626,608€

99% of Coimbra Group sources of funding in the 2023 closed accounts are coming from the annual membership fees.

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Annual high-level policy seminars alternatively on higher education and on research issues (e.g. in November 2023 in Brussels, "Achieving excellence at Universities: What does it mean in times of multiple crises?" / in November 2022 in Uppsala University, Sweden, "From learning spaces to learning environments").

Coimbra Group Policy statements (see https://www.coimbra-group.eu/category/policy-papers):

- Coimbra Group signs the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information (2024)
- Coimbra Group joins the conversation on Open Science (2024)
- Coimbra Group’s Recommendations for the Erasmus+ Programme 2021-2027 Interim Evaluation (2023)
- Position Paper “Past, present, and future of the European Research & Innovation Framework programmes 2014-2027” (2023)
- Joint Call for Action Towards an Africa-EU Science, Technology, and Innovation Programme (2023)
- Joint Statement Paper on the Model Grant Agreement’s Intellectual Property Provisions of the European Innovation Council under Horizon Europe (2022)
- Second Coimbra Group Executive Board Statement on Ukraine (2022)
- Call for Peace and Democracy (2022)
- Statement on the Rolling out of the European Universities Initiative after the pilot phase
- Statement on UK’s withdrawal from the Erasmus+ programme (2021)

Joint Open letters/Statements with other signatories addressed to the European Commission (see https://www.coimbra-group.eu/category/news):

- Joint Statement on the Model Grant Agreement’s Intellectual Property Provisions of the European Innovation Council under Horizon Europe
- Joint statement on the exemption of education and research sector from EU Digital Services Act (2022)
- Adapting Erasmus+ to support Ukrainian students and staff (2022)
- Stick to Science campaign (2022)
- Joint Statement for UK Association to Horizon Europe (2021)
- Joint letter for the inclusion of R&I stakeholders in the co-creation and implementation of the European Research Area (ERA) governance system (2021)
- Jena Declaration on Sustainability (2021)
- Open letter on the Participation of Switzerland under Horizon Europe (2021)
- Joint Statement for UK Association to Horizon Europe (2021)
- Open letter on ERA governance (2021)


Coimbra Group Policy papers (see https://www.coimbra-group.eu/category/policy-papers):

- Universities’ response to the Covid-19 crisis: What have we learnt so far? (2021)
- Opinion piece on 'The essential role of networks in the development of the European Universities Initiative' (in the TH&MA Journal for Higher Education and Management volume 2021.4)
- Key takeaway messages from discussions between Coimbra Group task group on post-Brexit UK-EU exchange & relevant stakeholders (2021)
- Career services in times of Covid-19: Challenges, Responses and Best Practices (2021)


Monthly newsletter with policy-focused editorials authored by the Rector of a Coimbra Group University and specific section on the European Universities initiative - sent out to over 3 500 subscribers worldwide (see https://www.coimbra-group.eu/subscribe-newsletter)

Participation in a number of Commission stakeholder groups on the invitation of the European Commission

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The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	27 Jan 2025	Location	Online
  Subject	Exchange of views on the upcoming Union of Skills and the key role of higher education.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu
  Attending	Vanessa Debiais-Sainton (Cabinet member)

• Date	23 Jan 2025	Location	Belgium, Brussles
  Subject	Discussion on research place in the the future Multiannual Financial Framework
  DG	Budget
  Attending	Christophe Galand (Head of Unit)
  Other Lobbyists	Stakeholder Political Alliance for Radioligand Cancer Therapies Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel Young European Research Universities Network League of European Research Universities European Consortium of Innovative Universities Universities of Applied Sciences for Europe The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities EuroTech Universities Alliance European University Association European Association of Institutions in Higher Education

• Date	17 Jun 2021	Location	Videoconferencing
  Subject	Role of Universities in the Knowledge Square and in the future of the European (Higher) Education Area and European Research Area
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	17 Jun 2021	Location	Videoconferencing
  Subject	Role of Universities in the Knowledge Square and in the future of the European (Higher) Education Area and European Research Area
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Innovation and Youth
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	16 Nov 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Keynote Speech and discussion at Closed Rectors’ Meeting of the Coimbra Group
  DG	Research and Innovation
  Attending	Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)

• Date	11 Sep 2020	Location	Videoconference call
  Subject	Meeting with Chair and Vice-Chair of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group on exchanging views and ideas ahead of a strategic and pretty unusual academic year for the European Higher Education an Research area
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	11 Sep 2020	Location	Videoconference call
  Subject	Meeting with Chair and Vice-Chair of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group on exchanging views and ideas ahead of a strategic and pretty unusual academic year for the European Higher Education an Research area
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Innovation and Youth
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	07 Jul 2020	Location	Video-conferencing
  Subject	European higher education and research current challenges and future developments, European Education Area
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	07 Jul 2020	Location	Video-conferencing
  Subject	European higher education and research current challenges and future developments, European Education Area
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Innovation and Youth
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)