The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities

EOSC https://www.eosc.eu/

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Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

None declared

1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

None declared

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In 2024, The Guild’s communication activities included:

POSITION PAPERS

* The use of artificial intelligence in research: unlocking its full potential. How can Europe harness the power of AI in research while keeping it responsible and human-centered? The Guild’s position paper outlines key strategies to advance AI innovation ethically, enhance research productivity, and strengthen Europe’s global leadership. Explore how responsible AI can drive transformative research across disciplines.

* Beyond Horizon: creating an ambitious framework programme for Europe's R&I excellence. The European Union is about to start negotiations for its tenth framework programme for research and innovation (FP10). The Guild urges for a future-oriented outlook on FP10. The framework programme must be geared towards building Europe’s competitiveness and resilience based on its scientific leadership.

STATEMENTS
* FP10 must be distinguished by excellence, impact, and purpose. The Guild welcomes the Expert Group's report on Horizon Europe and its recommendations for the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10)

* We need much more MSCA! R&I organisations across Europe call for the MSCA to be recognised as a crucial R&I instrument and ask for an increased budget to unlock its full potential.

* Open letter to Commissioner-designate Zaharieva. The Guild publishes recommendations on European research and education policies ahead of the
commissioner candidate hearings.
* Open letter to Commissioner-designate Síkela.
* Open letter to Commissioner-designate Várhelyi.
* Open letter to Commissioner-designate Hoekstra.
* Open letter to Executive Vice-President-designate Virkkunen.
* Open letter to Executive Vice-President-designate Séjourné.
* Open letter to Executive Vice-President-designate Mînzatu.

* Open letter - RESEARCH MATTERS campaign. As part of the #ResearchMatters campaign, leading research and innovation organisations from across Europe are calling for a significant increase in investments in research and innovation.

* What should be captured with a European degree? The Guild’s response to the higher education package.

* The Guild's Deans of SSAH on UK and Swiss (re)association. The Guild’s Deans of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities stress the importance of the re-association of the UK to Horizon Europe and its successor programmes, full empowerment of SSAH research collaborations in EU framework programmes and the urgent need for Switzerland to associate to enhance Europe’s competitiveness and resilience to better address societal challenges.

* The Guild’s recommendations for the Investment Pathway of European Universities alliances. The Guild's contribution to the current discussions on the future funding of the European Universities alliances.

* The Guild welcomes the opportunity to co-develop Europe’s approach to research security.

* Open letter on research & higher education in EC impact assessments.

MAJOR EVENTS

* Re-framing innovation policy: The dynamics between the R and I : it focuses on the discourses and priorities of research and innovation policy and their wider links to Europe’s competitiveness in the coming decades.

* AI in European universities: Opportunities and challenges. The event aims to discuss the opportunities and challenges we face in using artificial intelligence (AI) in our teaching and research activities based on the experiences of The Guild member universities. If Europe is to be a driver in AI, what stands in the way of universities helping to achieve this goal?

* Back to Fundamentals of Research: Ethics and Academic Freedom.The event will focus on the impact of new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, and rapid geopolitical changes on the research ecosystem. It aims to explore measures to protect, facilitate, strengthen, and optimise academic freedom, which is considered a fundamental right and the main route to excellence in science.

The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities is a new undertaking and in its first phase.

17 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.

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	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	League of European Research Universities Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research Stakeholder Political Alliance for Radioligand Cancer Therapies COIMBRA GROUP EuroTech Universities Alliance European University Association European Consortium of Innovative Universities Universities of Applied Sciences for Europe European Association of Institutions in Higher Education Vrije Universiteit Brussel Young European Research Universities Network

• Date	21 Jan 2025	Location	Brussels (BE)
  Subject	Choose Europe in MSCA
  DG	Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
  Attending	Claire Morel (Head of Unit)

• Date	10 Jan 2024	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Discussing Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, European Research area and European Education area.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Iliana Ivanova
  Attending	Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Cooperation and Team Europe approach in the areas of education, innovation and research.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Lora Borissova (Cabinet member) Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Oct 2022	Location	virtual
  Subject	Speech at General Assembly meeting
  DG	Research and Innovation
  Attending	Signe Ratso (Acting Director-General)

• Date	21 Oct 2021	Location	online
  Subject	European Strategy for Universities
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas
  Portfolio	Promoting the European Way of Life
  Attending	Catherine Sustek (Cabinet member)

• Date	11 Mar 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Innovation and research in Africa
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Lora Borissova (Cabinet member)

• Date	23 Oct 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	General Assembly: speech and discussion on ERA
  DG	Research and Innovation
  Attending	Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)

• Date	05 May 2020	Location	Video-conferencing
  Subject	Universities of the Future, Implications of COVID-19 on the balance between research and innovation in Horizon Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Carlos Morais-Pires (Cabinet member) Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	05 May 2020	Location	Video-conferencing
  Subject	Universities of the Future, Implications of COVID-19 on the balance between research and innovation in Horizon Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Innovation and Youth
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner) Carlos Morais-Pires (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Jan 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	ERA, European Universities Initiatives, Horizon Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	21 Jan 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	ERA, European Universities Initiatives, Horizon Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Innovation and Youth
  Attending	Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

• Date	18 Jul 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	"Horizon Europe: The Guild strategic priorities for Health", presentation of the paper
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Anne Bucher (Director-General)

• Date	05 Jul 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Horizon Europe Preparation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
  Portfolio	Research, Science and Innovation
  Attending	Keith Sequeira (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Jan 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting with Vice-Presidents
  DG	Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
  Attending	Themis Christophidou (Director-General)

• Date	07 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Higher education
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics
  Portfolio	Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
  Attending	Jean-Philippe Gammel (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Feb 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Horizon 2020
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Stefaan Hermans (Cabinet member) Julie Fionda (Cabinet member)