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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Coimbra Group (CG)
EU Transparency Register
2837382374-72 First registered on 08 Sep 2008
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
Higher education and research policies; inter-university co-operation and inter-cultural exchanges; facilitating knowledge transfer; promoting the role of comprehensive multi-disciplinary research universities and promoting the role of universities in service to society at different levels, especially their impact on local, regional and global development.
Address
Head Office
Egmontstraat 11, rue d'Egmont
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
In general, all thirty-nine member universities and their staff are interested in the information available via the register. The main interest is from the governing bodies: executive board, rectors' advisory group, expert groups and working groups.
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Inge Knudsen (Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Ludovic Thilly (Executive Board Chair)
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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
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
31,221 € (Source: participation as partner in projects)
Other financial info
The estimates on costs representing our organisation to the European institutions are difficult to make as some member universities send representatives to meetings with EU representatives, others do not. The central office in Brussels does not have access to the accounts of individual member universities.
The central office does not incur expenditure when attending meetings organised by European institutions as it is based in Brussels. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
High-level policy seminars alternating between research and higher education; in November 2017 on higher education at Trinity College Dublin; in December 2018 a research policy seminar at the Venice International University; in December 2019 on education policy at the University of Tartu.
Joint statements together with fourteen other university organisation of the MFF and the future Horizon Europe programme.
Coordination of activities to support refugees to integrate at member universities.
Participation in projects to facilitate recognition of learning outcomes and degrees.Other activities
- "Higher education in Europe 10 years after Bologna"
- "Coimbra Group Comments to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Learning Mobility of Young People"
- CG Position Paper on the European Commission's Green Paper “From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding”
- "CG ERA Consultation Response"
- "Coimbra Group Position Paper on Horizon 2020"
- "CG interim evaluation of Horizon 2020" (Jan. 2017)
- "CG Position Paper on Erasmus+" (May 2017)
- "CG position paper on FP9" (October 2017)
- "CG statement on European Universities Networks" (February 2018)
- "Statement of the Coimbra Group of Universities on the Bologna Process" (April 2018)
- "Coimbra Group Statement on BREXIT" (31 January 2019)
- “Joint Call for an Ambitious Horizon Europe Budget”, with fourteen other university research networks (September 2019)
http://www.coimbra-group.eu/publications/policy-papers
Meetings
Meetings
None declared