Invitation to the 2021 EUA-CDE Annual Meeting

Dear colleague,

I would like to warmly thank you for participating in the 2021 EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) survey on current developments in doctoral education.

As you may know, EUA-CDE brings together a community of more than 260 universities from 36 countries and we are dedicated to further developing doctoral education policies and good practices in Europe. While reviewing the input received from the respondents, we realised that while your institution is an EUA member, it is not yet part of the EUA-CDE community. As your input is very useful and will feed into the presentations at the 2021 EUA-CDE Annual Meeting (an exclusive event), we would like to extend an invitation to participate.

This year’s Annual Meeting, “Preparing doctoral education for a post-pandemic world”, will take place online on 13-15 September and is about building the future of doctoral education. Over the course of three days, the EUA-CDE community will come together to address the key challenges facing doctoral education in the fallout of the Covid-19 crisis. By attending, you will receive an overview of the key findings of the 2021 EUA-CDE survey and get to know our community. You will have the opportunity to discuss the findings with peers through virtual focus groups. The results of these group discussions will be included in the final report.

Although the Annual Meeting is reserved to the EUA-CDE community, we are pleased to invite all EUA representatives that filled out the survey. This will lead to an even more fruitful discussion with  diverse perspectives and reflections.

If you would like to participate, please contact us at events@eua-cde.org to receive the unique code necessary for the registration.

The deadline to register is 9 September 2021.

For any question related to the programme of the event, please contact the EUA-CDE Secretariat at info@eua-cde.org. We are also at your disposition for any questions related to EUA-CDE and what it offers to its members.

To stay up to date on what awaits you at the EUA-CDE Annual Meeting, you can also follow us on Twitter under #EUACDE or subscribe to our newsletter.

We look forward to your participation.

With best regards,

Dr Alexander Hasgall
Head of EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE)