Impact

The European University Foundation is a network of universities committed to bring about a modern, strong and competitive European Higher Education Area. The EUF is also an influential advocate for a substantial increase of the quantity and quality of student mobility, regularly putting forward new ideas, policies and recommendations. The network has a rich history of promoting policy reform and contributing to the further development of the Erasmus programme.

Learn more about the EUF history here.

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2024
EUF Communities
  • Cooperation among members is strengthened by the addition of new communities, bringing the total to five. Each Community focuses on key aspects of international higher education, including mobility, policy, digitalisation, EU project management, and European University Alliances.
2023

Marking two decades

  • The EUF network marks its first two decades of existence, having already played a key role in reshaping international cooperation and student mobility in Europe. We have gathered at Erasmus University Rotterdam to commemorate the occasion and discuss how to build on our achievements well into the future.
2022
New Strategic priority
  • The EUF Council of Rectors sets a new strategic priority for policy innovation: ‘inclusion in and through internationalisation.’, aiming to make international mobility accessible to students from all backgrounds, especially those from underrepresented groups. Initiatives like Erasmus for All, ErasmusGAP, DIEM, and Erasmus+60 aim to expand participation.
2021
Commitment to sustainability

  • Green Erasmus and Erasmus Goes Green projects promote the sustainable ways of internationalisation and mobility.
2020
Release of MyAcademicID
  • The platform allows students to authenticate on e-services of the Erasmus+ programme using their student accounts. It also introduces the management of the European Student Identifier released by higher education institutions via eduGAIN
2018
Launch of Erasmus Without Paper
  • The Erasmus Without Paper is launched during a conference at Ghent University in December 2018
2017
Launch of the Erasmus+ App
  • The Erasmus+ mobile App is launched with the European Commission for the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus+ programme
2016
Opening of the Brussels Office
  • The Brussels Office provides working and meeting space for the network at the heart of the European quarter
2015
Launch of the Online Learning Agreement prototype
  • The learning agreement is a key document for an Erasmus+ mobility to take place.
2014
New partnerships
  • Launch of two innovative partnerships to improve the entrepreneurship and employability of graduates.
2013
Students to spend two years abroad
  • The European Parliament and the European Commission agree that, under Erasmus+, students will be allowed to spend two full years abroad, a notion pioneered by EUF since the late ’90s.
2012
The EUF launches the Club d’Europe student network
  • and supports Europe’s first Citizen’s Initiative, proposing 3% of the EU budget to be allocated to student mobility. The initiative fell short of gathering one million signatures but in 2014 the Erasmus budget was increased by 40%.
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2011
The 1st Luxembourg Forum on Human Rights and Higher Education
  • is held in cooperation with UNESCO and the Council of Europe. In 2014 the Yerevan ministerial conference considered for the first time Human Rights dimension to be of central importance to cooperation in Higher Education.
2009
The EUF online language learning platform is launched.
  • In 2014 online language learning becomes a key policy element in Erasmus+.
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2008
The EUF develops the first system to automatically recognise ECTS earned abroad,
  • and with it, Europe’s largest academic equivalences database.
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2007
European Commissioner Jan Figel labels the EUF “Erasmus+”.
  • In 2014 the European Commission rebrands Erasmus into Erasmus+.
2006
The EUF and the European Investment Bank
  • jointly investigate the possibility of establishing a European income contingent​ loan system for student mobility. In 2015 a Master loan is established by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank.
2005
The EUF proposes that the international student internships be mainstreamed.
  • In 2007 the European Commission establishes the Erasmus internships.
2004
Campus Europae opens its office in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
  • The headquarters were located in the Château de Munsbach until 2018.
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2003
The Campus Europae programme is launched
  • The programme strived for quality mobility notably focusing on full recognition, social inclusion and language learning