It has been a very unusual start for the new University Management, strongly characterised by the ongoing pandemic. I hope that developments now go in the right direction and that within the University Management we can focus more on the core issues that we want to drive forward.
The coming of autumn means intensified work on several exciting projects. This includes our European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH), an interdisciplinary project between five universities in Europe working on a broad front to meet societal challenges in global health. The current collaboration is in its second year and intensive discussions are currently focusing on how we can best continue the work after 2022 – in terms of organisation and content, and which European university partners will be involved. The European university alliances focus mainly on education at all levels, but also on how research projects such as Transformation Through Joint Research and Innovation (EUGLOHRIA) are developed within these alliances. This provides exciting possibilities to improve the intertwining of education and research.
On the Education Board’s agenda for the autumn are challenging matters such as strategic work concerning lifelong learning including widening participation and digitalisation issues, as well as discussions about LU as a broad university. We will also continue the work on quality assurance issues in the wake of the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s review of higher education institutions.
/Lena Eskilsson
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