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🌍Global Partnerships Working Group Meeting – Strengthening international collaboration 🌍 This afternoon, Coimbra Group’s Global Partnerships Working Group gathered for an engaging and productive session, bringing together representatives from across our network to discuss key initiatives shaping the future of international cooperation. 🎓🤝 🔹 Highlights from the meeting: ✅ UNAM Networking Series – Updates on fostering connections with the University of Namibia ✅ #Peace & #Conflict Studies – Recent developments in this Working Group initiative ✅ Summer School on #Multilingualism – Exciting updates on the next edition taking place at the Universidade de Coimbra ✅ Workshop on #China Collaboration – Key takeaways ✅ Africa Charter: the way forward ✅ Coimbra Group Bologna Annual Conference – Preparation of meeting and joint sessions to enhance interdisciplinary cooperation, preparation of Work Plan 2025-2026,... A huge thank you to all participants for the insightful exchanges!🌍🚀 #CG40Years #GlobalPartnerships #HigherEd #InternationalCooperation Sarah-Marleen Dannenberg Piet Wostyn Irinja Paakkanen margreet de lange Marek Frankowicz Margrethe Søvik GianBattista Parigi Marta Cocos Stefania Ferrari Nune Nikoghosyan, PhD Márcia Rodrigues Martin O'Malley Nils Gunnar Songstad Isabella Aboderin

✨ 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗪 - 𝟰𝟬 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻✨ Coimbra Group & Latin America – A lasting partnership 🎓🌎 For decades, the Coimbra Group has fostered deep collaboration between European and Latin American universities, shaping academic exchanges, research partnerships, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. What began in 1988 as alumni networks engaging 16,000+ members (Circulos Europeos) has grown into a rich, structured relationship with lasting impact. 📜 Key milestones in our journey: ➡ 1988: The Coimbra Group was entrusted by the European Communities to lead a dialogue with Latin American alumni of European universities. This resulted in 12 circles with 16,000+ active members, organizing conferences and discussions on topics like MERCOSUR and the European single market (photo) ➡ 1991: Launch of the TEMPUS Programme, expanding collaboration by adapting Erasmus-style exchanges to Latin America, strengthening mobility and academic cooperation ➡ 1992: Creation of the Task Force Latin America & signing of the 'Declaración de Granada', reinforcing academic cooperation ➡ 1994: Launch of the ALFA Programme, supporting student & researcher exchanges ➡ 2004: Introduction of the CG Latin America Scholarship Programme, expanding mobility opportunities (2025 call now open!) ➡ 2006: 'Leiden Rectors’ Declaration' advocating for an EU-LAC Knowledge Area; cooperation agreement signed with the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (still ongoing, with different activities and exchanges) ➡ 2021: Publication of 'Why Latin America Matters', underlining the region’s global significance ➡ 2024: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales & Coimbra Group launch a new inter-institutional cooperation for research, education, and innovation. From early collaborations to today’s growing partnerships, Latin America remains a strategic priority for the Coimbra Group. As we celebrate #CG40Years, we look forward to continuing our shared commitment to academic excellence and societal impact across continents. #HigherEd #LatinAmerica #CG40Years #AcademicCooperation #Innovation #THENandNOW #EULAC Juan Manuel Sotelo Mara Constantinescu Soledad Garcia Ferrari

🧠 Those were intense days in Pavia, for the #EUniverse project meeting We are aiming at a more #inclusive and #international #university, by integrating European values and civic #engagement into learning activities that enhance student mobility, skills, and #intercultural understanding. We will also look into structural change tools, with the ultimate goal of transforming the institutional culture of universities across Europe. Led by the University of Poitiers, EUNIVERSE brings together a strong consortium of five Coimbra Group universities, ESN and the Coimbra Group. Big thanks to our tireless hosts at the University of Pavia and to all the consortium for such a productive meeting! Stay tuned to know about our developments for a more inclusive, international, and engaged university community! https://lnkd.in/eb9nXyDu Université de Poitiers Università di Pavia Universidad de Granada University of Cologne Jagiellonian University The University of Edinburgh Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Erasmus Student Network Utrecht University Sarah-Marleen Dannenberg Marco Oliva Chantal Riccardi Caspar de Bok Noémie Wauthy Ignacio J. Blanco Caroline Bélan-Ménagier Francis Grillon Andriana Terekhovska Wim Gabriels Neli Kalinova-Schmieder

🎬 And this is a wrap! The “AI Ethics and Governance” open webinar, organized today by the Coimbra Group Equality & Diversity Working Group with the support of the Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) / University of Padua, was a huge success. 👏 We are truly grateful to Francesca Rossi, IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, for her extremely instructive and enlightening keynote. Some insights: - "As #AI evolves, AI #ethics must evolve as well" - "The latest AI wave, of #AIAgents and agentic AI systems, amplifies some of the risks and challenges already identified" - "Developing #tools are just the beginning of building an AI #governance, the easiest part. The challenge is to involve #everyone, especially the non AI people, into the governance and ethics" - "Operationalising AI ethics and governance at institutional level is not just about being compliant with #regulation, it is also about going beyond and being proactive, building and exploiting AI #research #innovation to advance AI #value alignment, and joining multi-stakeholder #partnerships" 🙏 Many thanks as well to Coimbra Group's Working Groups colleagues: - Åsa Cajander, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (Uppsala University) and Yvette Roman Roman, AI Governance Officer, (Utrecht University), our two respondents today for bringing perspectives from academia - Annalisa Oboe, Chair of CG Equality & Diversity WG, Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature (Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) / University of Padua), main organiser, co-moderator and host of the webinar -Univ.-Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse, CG Executive Board Vice-Chair, Professor of English Linguistics and the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Teaching University of Cologne, who opened the webinar and co-moderated the discussion. 🙏 And very many thanks to all online attendees for your massive participation and thought-provoking questions! -- 💡 This webinar is one of several initiatives led by the Coimbra Group and its Working Groups to advance discussions on #AI in #highereducation and strengthen #collaboration among CG member universities on these issues, including the High Level Policy Seminar on “(Generative) AI in Higher Education” in November 2024 at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and the establishment of an AI Inter-Working Group in June 2024. 👉 https://lnkd.in/enXhqyQc -- Henna Virkkunen Maria Leptin Thomas Ekman Jørgensen Eva Maydell (Paunova) Marietje Schaake European University Association The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities CESAER SwissCore SPARC Europe ALLEA – The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities Alex Moltzau Lucilla Sioli Gosia (Malgorzata) Nikowska David Arranz

🌱 The Coimbra Group is looking forward to the 40th Anniversary Climate Symposium. Durham University is hosting the event, which will also initiate the celebrations for the network's 40th Anniversary. 🎂 The central theme for the two-day Climate Symposium will be the role of universities as agents of transformative change for climate, nature, planetary health and society. Renowned experts will reflect on the role of universities at the forefront of efforts to combat climate change and embed sustainability in all areas of life, and that it is now more urgent than ever that we address the climate emergency through research, education and policy engagement. The Durham Symposium will deliver a long-lasting legacy through a Durham Declaration, which will shape both the CG’s and the wider sector’s response to climate change. We will gather Coimbra Group rectors in Durham to agree on concrete #actions to enhance further the role of universities as agents of transformative change for #climate, nature, planetary health and #society. 🌍 We are also engaging students as drivers of change and looking forward to check the results of this game 👇 #CGClimateSymposium #DurhamDeclaration #ClimateChange #sustainability #SDGs #research #education #innovation Karen O’Brien Emma Moore Prof. Dr. Ludovic THILLY Petra Minnerop Annetje Ottow Jane Stout Dr. Max Jungmann Anna Gumbau Harriet Bulkeley Lenka Henebergová Patrícia Pereira da Silva Susan Simon Mari Sundli Tveit Sam Barratt Teresa Sauras Yera Antonella Forlino Kirk Junker Karin Rebel 🟥 Lana Par Marjo Kaartinen Sébastien Castelltort Léonore Moncond'huy Michele Acuto Daniel Donoghue,

📢 Call for Applications for the 2025 Coimbra Group #Scholarship Programme! If you are a young professor or researcher do not miss the opportunity to do short-term #research #visits in one of the 21 Coimbra member universities located in #Europe. 🌍 Open to national and residents from universities in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the European Neighbourhood with nearly 80 scholarships available. 📅 Apply by March 31st, 2025 👉 https://shorturl.at/riLoO

🚨 👏 Coimbra Group welcomes the #WarsawDeclaration adopted today by the EU27 Research Ministers under the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union, which recognise the need: - for a stand-alone #FP10 in the future - to "secure a #stable and #predictable framework to the R&I community" - for"an adequate budget matching the strategic role" of the EU framework programme - to offer "an attractive frame for #collaborative research" - to preserve the independence and expand the role of the European Research Council (ERC) and EIC - European Innovation Council 🙌 All 27 Member States have endorsed the Warsaw Declaration, proposed by the Polish presidency, demanding #independent and efficient financing for scientific research and innovation. 💶 The declaration emphasises that science requires a #bold #budget to ensure that research outcomes and innovations strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, national economies, and the ability to tackle global challenges. 👉Check the full Declaration here: https://lnkd.in/gbB47NFe 👉Polish Presidency Press Release: https://lnkd.in/gYkrhEEb -- Ursula von der Leyen Ekaterina Zaharieva Stéphane Séjourné Diana Morant Ripoll Christina Egelund Mari-Leena Talvitie Philippe Baptiste Anna Maria Bernini Christoph Wiederkehr Marek Ženíšek Kristina Kallas Eppo Bruins Igor Papič Johan Pehrson CZELO FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency Research Foundation Flanders - FWO F.R.S. - FNRS Science Europe Neth-ER (Netherlands house for Education and Research) Science|Business Martin Greenacre

#FP10 Full support to our member KU Leuven’s key messages in this interview to Euractiv 👇🏼

#FP10 Full support from the Coimbra Group to the recommendations made by the University of Bergen’s Rector Margareth Hagen which are fully aligned with our network’s priorities 👇🏼

‼️ #FP10 👉 Tomorrow, Tuesday 11 March, 16h30-17h00 CET, MEP Christian Ehler is hosting a public press conference in honour of the plenary vote at the European Parliament for his Own-Initiative Report "on the assessment of the implementation of #HorizonEurope in view of its interim evaluation and recommendations for the 10th Research Framework Programme (2024/2109(INI))". The #public press conference will take place in the Parliament in Strasbourg, anyone can follow it online through the link: https://lnkd.in/eJsAidPb ➡️ In the meanwhile, today and tomorrow, #Research Ministers are meeting in Warsaw under the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union to discuss the strategic role of the future EU R&I framework programme, with respect for the future negotiations of the post-2027 EU Budget #MFF. Hopefully EU27 Research Ministers should adopt tomorrow the #WarsawDeclaration ( 👉 see the draft here: https://lnkd.in/eNBBUNqc)