HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-01-ACCESS-01: European Excellence Initiative (EEI)

According to the recent report on the future of European competitiveness by Mario Draghi (published in September 2024), ‘the EU boasts an excellent university system on average, but its presence among the top world-leading research universities is limited’.The EU higher education system is quite inclusive and provides a high level of education and training to a significant portion of its young people. However, there are very large differences among European universities, and some perform very well in many respects. This action addresses this challenge by dedicated measures to reduce these disparities [...]