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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
COIMBRA GROUP
EU Transparency Register
361887338852-62 First registered on 06 Jul 2020
Goals / Remit
Founded in 1985 and formally constituted by Charter in 1987, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European comprehensive, multidisciplinary universities of high international standard committed to creating special academic and cultural ties to promote, for the benefit of its members, internationalisation, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society. It is also the purpose of the Group to influence European education and research policies and to develop best practice through the mutual exchange of experience.
Main EU files targeted
Education, research and innovation:
- European Education Area
- European Research Area
- Universities of the Future
- European Universities Initiative
- European Skills Agenda
- Digital Education Action Plan
- European Research Council
- Erasmus+
- Horizon Europe
Multi-Annual Financial Framework 2021-2027 and new recovery package Next Generation EU
+ International cooperation in higher education and research; Inter-university co-operation and inter-cultural exchanges; Facilitating knowledge transfer; Universities' impact on local, regional and global development.Address
Head Office
Egmontstraat 11, rue d'Egmont
BRUXELLES 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 06 Jul 2020
Name Start date End Date Emmanuelle GARDAN 05 Dec 2023 04 Dec 2024 Catarina MOLEIRO 05 Dec 2023 04 Dec 2024 Ms Magdalena KOZULA 17 Jan 2023 12 Mar 2023 Mr Benjamin MARTINEZ SANCHIS 17 Jan 2023 19 Mar 2023 Ms Enora BERGOT 14 Jan 2023 08 Jul 2023 Catarina MOLEIRO 11 Oct 2022 11 Oct 2023 Mr Benjamin MARTÍNEZ SANCHIS 06 Sep 2022 09 Oct 2022 Emmanuelle GARDAN 30 Aug 2022 30 Aug 2023 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
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. Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
33. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
34. Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
35. University of Tartu, Estonia
36. Turun yliopisto, Turku, Finland
37. Uppsala universitet, Sweden
38. Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
39. Vilnius University, Lithuania
40. Julius-Maximilian-Universität Würzburg, Germany
41. Åbo Akademi University, Finland
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
23,708 € (Source: Erasmus+)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Annual high-level policy seminars alternatively on higher education and on research issues
(i.e. in December 2019 a higher education policy seminar on "Universities as drivers of socio-academic integration in multilingual Europe" at the University of Tartu; in December 2018 a research policy seminar on "Defining and measuring impact of research: an inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral approach" at the Venice International University; etc.).
Policy statements:
- Coimbra Group policy statements (i.e. on the next European Multiannual Financial Framework and the recovery instrument “Next Generation EU”, on the resignation of ERC President, on the Brexit, etc.).
- Joint policy statements together with fourteen other university organisation of the MFF and the future Horizon Europe programme.
Policy papers:
- Practices at Coimbra Group Universities in response to the COVID-19 – A Collective Reflection on the Present and Future of Higher Education in Europe (2020)
- Virtual Exchange at Coimbra Group Universities (2020)
Monthly newsletter with policy-focused editorials authored by the Rector of a Coimbra Group University and sent out to over 1650 subscribers.
Coordination of three long-lasting own scholarship programmes providing young researchers from Africa, Latin America and European Neighbouring countries with short term research grants at Coimbra Group Universities.
Participation in European funded projects (Erasmus+) on the security and safety of higher education institutions' students and staff moving abroad (UNISAFE); on the internationalization of PhD Studies in South Africa (YEBO!); on building Mediterranean partner countries' higher education institutions' capacity in the field of international relations (ICMED); on measuring and comparing achievements of learning outcomes in higher education in Europe (CaloHEx); etc.
Associate partnership to European Universities' alliances Una Europa and CHARM-EU.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
7 meetings found. Download meetings
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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)