RISIS Research Seminar September 25 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Benedetto Lepori, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano Discussant: Mike Thelwall, The University of Sheffield Abstract It has recently been argued that ChatGPT might become a serious competitor…
RISIS Research Seminar October 16 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Gdańsk University of Technology Discussant: Henning Kroll Abstract This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge creation by Higher Education Institutions (KC-HEI), accompanying the…
RISIS Research Seminar November 13 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Hendrik Schirmer, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) Discussant: Michael Grätz Abstract The EUROSTUDENT project examines the social and economic situation of students based…
The European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO) will serve as a centralised platform integrating diverse EU data and transparency tools, notably U-Multirank and ETER, to offer comprehensive insights into European higher education sector. The Observatory will provide four major tools:…
The Observatory and its tools offer a number of benefits for institutions: Enhanced Visibility and Recognition: Participation in the EHESO increases a university’s visibility on a European scale. EHESO will be integrated into the official EU website. By contributing data,…
The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) data for the academic year 2021/2022 are now available online. With this release, ETER provides longitudinal data for the period 2011-2021; this allows examining changes over time in European higher education. The ETER perimeter covers all 27…
The training will focus on the usage of the data provided by the European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO) to identify institutions with similar profile as the focal one, and on which data and indicators can be used for comparing…
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are said to be “as different as chalk and cheese”, and indeed, by looking at ETER data, such differences are highly apparent. In terms of students, the largest HEI in ETER, the Anadolu University in Turkey,…
RISIS Research Seminar June 12 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Balázs Lengyel, ELKH Centre for Economic- and Regional Studies Discussant: Lorenzo Cassi, Centre Economie de la Sorbonne – University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAvJBnkGI0&t=5s Abstract Novel combinations of technologies…
RISIS Research Seminar May 22 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Dario Diodato, JRC With Ulrich Schetter, Eric Protzer, Frank Neffke, and Ricardo Hausmann Discussant: Nico Pintar, AIT Abstract Economic complexity analysis has shown that one can…
We are delighted to announce that a consortium, which comprises the primary partners of the ETER project, has secured a prestigious opportunity to develop a European Higher Education Sector Observatory. The European Higher Education Sector Observatory, a key action stemming from…
RISIS Research Seminar April 24 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Harry Hoffmann, TU Ilmenau Discussant: Marco Seeber, University of Agder Abstract Mission statements are common instruments for the strategic positioning of universities. However, there are few…
Due to an unexpectedly high volume of registrations, we have reached full capacity sooner than anticipated. Therefore, we regret to inform you that registration for the training is now closed. An alternative training will be provided on June 19th. The…
The ETER Introductory User Training addresses first-time and entry-level ETER users (e.g. policy analysts, institutional managers at HEIs,…). The main goal is to enable users to navigate through the ETER data interface, select the data of interest (variables, countries, years)…
RISIS Research Seminar March 13 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenters: Pedro Pineda, University of Bath & Özgür Kadir Özer, Middle East Technical University Co-author: Benedetto Lepori, Università della Svizzera italiana Discussant: Marek Kwiek, University of Poznan Abstract This…
RISIS Research Seminar February 14 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Friedrik Piro, NIFU Discussant: Thomas Scherngell, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Abstract The goal of this article is to deepen our understanding of geographical differences in…
RISIS Research Seminar January 10 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Marco Cavallaro, Università della Svizzera italiana Discussant: Carter Walter Bloch, Aarhus University Abstract The goal of the paper is to advance our understanding of competition in public…
We are now opening the call for participations for the 2024 series of RISIS research seminars (). RISIS research seminars are meant to discuss on-going scholarly research in research and higher education in order also to prepare future publications; papers…
RISIS Research Seminar DECEMBER 13 2023 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Joanna Wosczak-Derlacz, University of Gdanski Discussant: Rainer Frietsch, Fraunhofer ISI Abstract How financial investments in higher education institutions can impact their research outcomes? The primary focus…
Guest author: Hendrik Schirmer, DZHW The EUROSTUDENT project has been collecting information on students’ socio-economic and study-related backgrounds, their study conditions and experiences, including international mobility, and their living conditions for more than two decades, aiming at inspiring policy debates…
RISIS Research Seminar October 25 2023 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Jürgen Janger, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Austria Discussant: Cinzia Daraio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Abstract How financial investments in higher education institutions can…
We are happy to announce the update of 17 ETER Country Reports with data for the period 2011-2020 and a new section on academic personnel, as a core resource for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). ETER offers in respect of academic personnel an extensive dataset…
Date: November 29th 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. (CET) Format: Online Event (Zoom) Instructor: Agata Lambrechts Programme: An overview on the ETER data structure. Users should get familiar with the ETER data structure in order to be able…
The training will focus on the usage of ETER to identify institutions with similar profile as the focal one, and on which data and indicators can be used for comparing them. It will be therefore of interest for institutional managers…
The ETER Introductory User Training addresses first-time and entry-level ETER users (e.g. policy analysts, institutional managers at HEIs,…). The main goal is to enable users to navigate through the ETER data interface, select the data of interest (variables, countries, years)…
RISIS Research Seminar SEPTEMBER 14 2023 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Sylke V Schnepf, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy Elena Bastianelli, University of Florence, Italy Zsusza Blasko, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy Discussant: Kristina Hauschildt,…
First part: issues of career structure Being based on microdata at the level of individual Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) allows the fine-grained analysis of the composition of academic personnel by gender and by seniority.…
The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) is the reference dataset on European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). ETER provides data on nearly 3,500 HEIs in about 40 European countries, including descriptive information, geographical information, students and graduates (with various breakdowns), revenues…
ETER now includes essential indicators shedding light on the participation of adult learners in higher education. Specifically, we have included indicators that measure the share of mature students, providing valuable insights into their engagement in tertiary education. Mature students and…
ACADEMIC PERSONNEL AT EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES RISIS-ETER Policymaker session on gender equity and career structures in higher education institutions 21 June 2023, 2 to 5 pm (Webinar) The societal demand for high quality higher education and for new knowledge continues to…
Date: June 14th 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. (CET) Format: Online Event (Zoom) Instructor: Daniel Wagner-Schuster Programme: An overview on the ETER data structure. Users should get familiar with the ETER data structure in order to be able…
The ETER Introductory User Training addresses first-time and entry-level ETER users (e.g. policy analysts, institutional managers at HEIs,…). The main goal is to enable users to navigate through the ETER data interface, select the data of interest (variables, countries, years)…
In 2019 the European UniversitiesInitiative started. Since then, 44 European Universities alliances were created, with 340 participating higher education institutions. This study evaluates the selection procedures and assesses the experiences of the first years. It also drafts three scenarios to…
RISIS Research Seminar APRIL 19 2023 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Patrick Painsi, University of Graz Discussant: Tatiana Fumasoli, UCL Abstract This paper aims to evaluate the effect various forms of institutional autonomy on higher education (HE)…
The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) data for 2020 are now available online. With this release, ETER provides longitudinal data for the whole period 2011-2020; this allows examining changes over time in European higher education. The new release includes several…
The ETER User Training on Academic Personnel & seniority levels addresses policy analysts and scholars, which are interested in the analysis of HEI personnel, such as gender balance, personnel composition, and internationality. A practical demonstration will be provided on how…
RISIS Research Seminar March 15 2023 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Dmitriy Fedotov, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto, Canada Discussant: Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo, University of Manchester Abstract Both national governments and…
The European Universities initiative has become one of the most visible networks of higher education institution (HEI) alliances on the continent in the last five years and a core element of European Higher Education strategy. The initiative supports the establishment…
The EUPRO database, maintained by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is a unique dataset providing systematic and standardised information on R&D projects, participants and resulting networks of the EU-FP and other European funding instruments, such as EUREKA, COST and…
RISIS Research Seminar Jan 18 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Benedetto Lepori, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Lutz Bornmann, Science Policy and Strategy Department, Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany Félix de…
The World Higher Education Database (WHED), maintained by the International Association of Universities in collaboration with UNESCO, provides authoritative information on higher education systems and credentials in 196 countries and territories, as well as information on over 20,000 officially accredited…
RISIS-ETER tool demonstration event RISIS tool demonstration events have the goal of presenting and practicing potentially useful tools for work with RISIS and related datasets (including ETER), such as tools for name matching and geocoding. They have a strong practical character…
With the publication of six more Country Reports (Albania, Hungary, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Poland and Slovakia), a total of 32 ETER Country Reports is now available. ETER Country Reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on…
The ETER Introductory User Training addresses first-time and entry-level ETER users (e.g. policy analysts, institutional managers at HEIs,…). The main goal is to enable users to navigate through the ETER data interface, select the data of interest (variables, countries, years)…
The ERASMUS program is the most extensive cooperation network of European higher education institutions. The network involves 90% of European universities and hundreds of thousands of students. The allocated money and number of travelers in the program are growing yearly.…
The current study aims at providing empirical and theoretical support to the important topic of international student mobility (ISM) in Europe. Specifically, it provides empirical analysis of degree-mobile students in 32 countries: the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association…
The ETER Introductory User Training addresses first-time and entry-level ETER users (e.g. policy analysts, institutional managers at HEIs,…). The main goal is to enable users to navigate through the ETER data interface, select the data of interest (variables, countries, years)…
Tuesday September 27th 2022 (online) In preparation of the next round of the ETER data collection a short internal trainings (about 60 minutes) on 27th 2022 3pm is scheduled. The training is focusing on updates since the last round of…
RISIS Research Seminar OCT 12 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Agata A. Lambrechts, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana Discussant: Thomas Heinze, University of Wuppertal, Germany Abstract In this presentation, we offer a descriptive and…
With the publication of six more ETER Country Reports (Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Latvia and Malta), a total of 26 reports is now available. ETER Country Reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined by national categories. They build…
RISIS Research Seminar SEP 21 @ 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Presenter: Ben Jongbloed, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente Discussant: Gunnar Sivertsen, NIFU Abstract Building on international comparative research – in particular, a soon to…
With the publication of eight more Country Reports (Belgium French Community, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Turkey), a total of 20 ETER Country Reports is now available. ETER Country Reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined…
THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE RISIS-ETER Policymaker session on data and indicator needs for the European University Initiative 13 June 2022, 2 to 5 pm (Webinar) The European University Initiative promoted by the European Commission has ignited collaborations and alliances across…
The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) has established itself as the reference point for any analysis of higher education based on microdata, that is, on data related to individual institutions. ETER covers both university (PhD granting) and non-university institutions (e.g. Fachochschule)…
ETER Country Reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined by national categories. They build on the Eurydice Report on the national higher education system but complement it with quantitative information on…
ETER Country Reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined by national categories. They build on the Eurydice report on the national higher education system but complements it with quantitative…
ETER has established itself as a reference register for higher education institutions in Europe. To analysis the availability of student counseling centers and the services provided, Franzoi et al. (2022) used a sample of institutions from the European Tertiary Education…
ETER country reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined by national categories. They build on the Eurydice report on the national higher education system but complements it with quantitative…
The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) data for 2017, 2018 and 2019 are now available online. With this release, ETER now provides longitudinal data for the period 2011-2019; this allows examining changes over time in European higher education. The ETER…
In its new data release, ETER is extending its long-standing cooperation with the Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR) (). DEQAR is a large database, which provides access to reports and evaluation results published byEQAR-registered quality assurance agencies, which have…
RISIS Research Seminar May 11 @ 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Presenter: Marek Kwiek, University of Poznan Discussant: Samin Aref, University of Toronto Abstract The seminar will be focused on new opportunities to study the global academic workforce from the…
In this article, we contribute to the scant literature covering quantitative studies on the determinants of the non-academic staff incidence in higher education institutions by analysing how the proportion of non-academic staff is related to key features such as size,…
Guidelines: Search, export and visualize ETER data Open Tutorial
This study deals with the analysis of regional economic development in Europe. Specifically, it examines the extent to which the performance and characteristics of higher education systems (HESs) influence regional economic development. The analysis employs data at the regional level,…
This paper provides novel evidence on co-evolution patterns of the technological specialization of innovation activities of firms and academic institutions located in the same European region during the years from 2003 to 2014. We exploit a novel and unique dataset…
RISIS Research Seminar JAN 12 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Pedro Pineda, University of Bath Discussant: Jürgen Enders, University of Bath Aiming to fill in current research gaps on our knowledge about the employment of academics in higher education, we…
Tuesday January 18th 2022 14:00 CET Online The aim of this session is to provide answers to any open question in the final phase of the ETER data collection and offer an informal exchange with other data providers and collectors.…
Internationalisation of higher education plays a key role in ensuring that Europe becomes a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. Internationalisation encompasses short-term and/or long-term mobility of students and staff, strategic partnerships on education, research and innovation, curriculum development, shared or…
RISIS Research Seminar NOV 11, 2021 @ 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Presenter: Roxana Diana Baltaru, University of Warwick; Radu Dragomir Manac, University of Essex; Miruna Ivan, University of Essex Discussant: Iussi Kivistö, University of Tampere Abstract: Horizontal differentiation in terms of…
RISIS Research Seminar OCT 6, 2021 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR). Alliance Manchester Business School. The University of Manchester Discussant: Mattia Cattaneo, Università degli studi di Begamo Abstract: The globalization of higher…
Unlike the US, where the Carnegie classification provides a clear understanding of the main types of institutions in the system, there is currently no widely accepted classification of European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The diversity of national terms and labels, such as…
In most European countries, higher education institutions or study programmes are subject to regular external review by a quality assurance agency. The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) is the official register of such agencies, listing those that work…
Kick-off Meeting of the new ETER contract MAY 29, 2021 @ 14:00 Presenter: Lepori, Benedetto; Lambrechts, Agata; Wagner-Schuster, Daniel; Schön, Lisa; Zahradnik, Georg; Scherngell, Thomas The goals of the meeting was to: – Introduce ETER and its current status. – Present the new contract, its…
The way resources are allocated to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) represents a key dimension of public policies in order to secure responsiveness of higher education to societal needs and in order to ensure an efficient use of resources in a…
Expanding the geographical coverage of higher education is an important means to achieve two key objectives of the European Union Agenda for Higher Education. On the one hand, a broader geographical coverage lowers costs and barriers for students’ access to…
ETER has established itself as a reference register for higher education institutions in Europe. eQAfy, for example, used the ETER database to identify higher education institutions for different surveys: Which Content Management Systems do EU Universities Use? Where Do EU Universities Host…
Using ETER data on the localization of Higher Education Institutions, a report of DG Regio shows that, in general, universities are quite widely distributed across Europe. In the EU and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) area, an average of four…
The European higher education sector is, despite important commonalities, a very heterogeneous gathering of national higher education systems. In a rough classification, systems could be divided into two large groups: unitary systems, which are systems dominated by universities, and dual…
ETER was used to describe the European higher education sector by the Swedish Higher Education Authority for the report “Higher Education in Sweden – 2018 Status Report”. Downlaod full report (pdf)
A report by Eurydice examines the characteristics of academic personnel in European higher education by examining issues like the qualification requirements for academic personnel, the recruitment process, employment and working conditions in academia, external quality assurance procedures, and top-level strategies for…
This report by the European Commission provides a set of indicators of the cultural and creative performance of cities in Europe. 10% of the data for the indicator are derived from ETER, particularly data on the share of graduates by…
A report of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission makes use of the ETER data to analyze the determinants of the student mobility in Europe. The report uses data on mobile students (degree mobility) and Erasmus students from…
The main highlights of the policy brief are: The majority of European countries and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have achieved gender balance (40‐60%) among academic staff. A high proportion of female academic staff, yet female full professors are in the…
The main highlights of this policy brief are: Almost half of the HEIs in ETER are very small to small; 42% are medium-sized, and only 12% are large to very large. The size distribution of HEIs displays large differences between…
This policy brief highlights the potential of ETER data to study the regional distribution of HEIs and their contribution to regional development. The main highlights are: The regions with a large number of HEIs are large metropolitan areas (in particular…
This policy brief highlights a core goal of the European Education Area, i.e. furthering student mobility at the international level. The main highlights are: Degree mobility at the bachelor level remains concentrated among a small number of HEIs. Erasmus credit…
This brief shows how higher education in Europe is continuously subject to change, with new entries, mergers and foundations of new institutions. The main highlights are: European higher education is formed of layers created in different historical periods and with…
This brief analyses the different patterns of subject specialization of European HEIs. The main highlights are: The core of the European higher education landscape, for both education and research, is composed by generalist institutions. The rationale for and characteristics of…
