Trends in university funding in Europe and the impact on universities and management Thomas Estermann Director Governance, Funding and Public Policy Development Lulea

What are we going to look at? 1. Trends in Funding 2. Impact on institutions and research management 3

EUA – A UNIQUE ACTOR …4…

Varying public funding of universities in Europe! 5

…6… Less money! Challenging economic environment = universities need to do more with less EUA’s Public Funding Observatory shows: In 15 systems universities received less direct public funding in 2014 than in 2008!

 Performance elements are more and more frequently found in funding mechanisms although their share in overall funding can often be limited. More performance!

Important role of competitive funding The selection of indicators reflects policy priorities

More Efficiency within institutions! “….no-one should try to convince me that bloated institutions should not be tightened up. The education sector needs to hold back like all the other areas.“

 Some universities have more than a 100 funding sources!  Tendency for further increase in the future!  New funding sources often represent a small % of overall budget  Different accountability regimes – high costs of compliance! More diverse income sources!

European Funding 11

Brexit War in Syria War in Ukraine International security situation Terrorism Financial & economic crisis Grexit Refugee crisis EU MFF (960 bn € in committments) Heading 1a: research, innovation, education etc. EU MFF (960 bn € in committments) Heading 1a: research, innovation, education etc. Horizon 2020 ( ) 80 bn € Horizon 2020 ( ) 80 bn € Erasmus+ ( ) 14.7 bn € Erasmus+ ( ) 14.7 bn € EU annual budget including yearly spending limits for H2020, Erasmus+ 2013: agreement on current programmes 2016 budget 2016/17: mid-term review 2017 budget 2017/18: EC proposal for new programme generation 2018 budget : programme negotiations Post 2020: new programmes EFSI 2.2 bn € Mid term review of MFF + programmes EU MFF post 2020 ??? € FP 9 ??? € Education etc. programme ??? €

EU budget and Horizon 2020  EFSI:  Money taken from H2020 (2.2 bn)  Transformation of grants into loans  Money for migration crisis  Backlog in payments  Universities receive payment later  EC to pay interest rate  Calls postponed 13

EUA membership consultation Looking at: Sustainability Sufficent funding Simplification Some statistics … responses 28 countries Variety of type and size of institutions Majority has more then 10 H2020 projects 14

Attractiveness of H2020 in comparison to national funding programmes 15

Success rate Overall success rate goes down from 20% in FP7 to 14% in Horizon 2020 (EC after 100 calls) More than 1/5 of sample note lower success rate Lower success rate has an impact on academic behaviour and researchers’ motivation

Proposed measures Other proposed solutions include more support for proposal writing, clearer guidelines on resubmission etc.

Participation and national funding 18 concert- Overall

H2020 and sustainability 19

Impact on institutions Funding highly strategic, top level responsibility Profiling and strategic positioning of universities Internal restructuring Growing support to research and its professionalisation Strategic recruitment / Human ressources Competition with other institutions and private providers Collaboration, networks and mergers

Impact on research managers Contribution to institutional strategy Intermediary between researchers and leadership Understanding of the broader landscape Collaboration What are your expectations?

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