Designing strategies for efficient funding of higher education in Europe

The present project makes funding efficiency in higher education the main focus of research and activities, thereby providing data and recommendations which will support the development of strategies to increase the efficiency of funding. This topic has not been sufficiently addressed in research so far, especially in a format that preserves the institutional perspective and offers fully updated information with a European scope.

Therefore this project involves leading universities inter alia in structuring international focus groups of university practitioners to determine good practice, challenges and pitfalls as well as the impact of funding efficiency measures such as performance-based mechanisms, institutional mergers and excellence schemes.