GRF Roundtable Series on “Higher Education”
Inaugural Meeting “Higher Education as a Shared Challenge: How Will Europe Deal With It?”
Panel Session
March 21, 2016

On March 21, GRF launched a roundtable series on “Higher Education” with a panel session entitled “Higher Education as a Shared Challenge: How Will Europe Deal With It?”. During the session, Prof. Maria Helena Nazaré, Chairperson (F) of the European University Association, Prof. Ursula Nelles, Rector of the Westphalian Wilhelms (Münster) University, and Prof. Krista Varantola, Vice-Chairwoman of the Finnish Council of University Rectors, addressed GRF members and a group of GRF community members and shared their assessments on the evolution of the university stucture of the EU, the new funding options available to the European universities, as well as the effects of demographics on the quality of higher education in the continent. Following their speeches, the panelists received a wide range of questions from the participants.