First edition of the ConSIMium Project: six Spanish students step into the shoes of European leaders
Brussels, February 3, 2023. Six Spanish university students, selected by Crue Spanish Universities, participated on 2 and 3 February in Brussels in the ConSIMium initiative of the Council of the European Union, which consists of a simulation exercise in which 27 teams from EU Member States experience first-hand the negotiations of their leaders and the decision-making process in Europe.
Crue takes part in the launch of the IAU Report on Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development
January 31, 2023. The International Association of Universities (IAU) launched on the 1st January the Accelerating Action for the SDGs in Higher Education Report, which analyses the data collected for its third global survey on Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development (HESD), conducted in 2022. Crue Spanish Universities has collaborated with the IAU in the design of the survey, as well as in the analysis of the data and the elaboration of the report, under the coordination of the President of the Crue Commission for the 2030 Agenda, Santiago García Granda.
Crue chairs the EUA General Secretaries Forum
Madrid, January 27, 2023. On 19 January, the Secretary General of Crue Universidades Españolas, María Teresa Lozano, chaired the Forum of Secretaries General of the National Rectors’ Conferences that are part of the European University Association (EUA), a function that she will carry out during 2023. On 27 January, the EUA Council meeting was held, at which Crue was represented by its President, Juan Romo, the Secretary General, María Teresa Lozano, and the President’s Delegate for European Affairs, Jose María Sanz.
Information session on the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s (EIT) call on entrepreneurship and innovation in Higher Education
Madrid, December 23, 2022. Crue Universidades Españolas organised, in collaboration with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an online information session on the call addressed to universities within the EIT HEI Initiative++ on Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education.
Statement condemning the ban on women from universities in Afghanistan
Madrid, December 22, 2022. Crue Spanish Universities strongly condemns the ban on university education for women and on secondary education for girls over 12 years of age, ordered in Afghanistan
