Financially Sustainable Universities: Towards full costing in European universities

Abstract

The financial sustainability of Europe’s universities is of crucial importance to the future of the European knowledge-based society and, therefore, to the European University Association. With this project report EUA aims to stimulate the debate with analysis of funding and fi nancing from the institutional perspective. As an independent voice of Europe’s universities in Brussels, EUA attaches highest priority to this issue as an essential requirement for Europe’s universities to meet the challenge of the “Modernisation Agenda” for universities under discussion with governments at both the national and European level.