Eurydice

As the Erasmus Mundus programme celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, we had the opportunity to speak with Dagmar Höpcke and Bart Cosyns, both are project advisors at the European Education and Culture Executive Agency and actively working on the Erasmus Mundus initiative. Through this conversation, we explore the programme's legacy, its current impact, and the prospects it holds for the future.

This year’s edition analyses more than 45 key structural indicators on education policies in early childhood education and care, key competences, digital competence, early leaving from education and training, the teaching profession, equity and higher education.

The Eurydice annual Heads of Unit meeting took place in Brussels between October 5 and 6. The meeting offered participants the opportunity to provide their input to the ambitious projects of the Eurydice Network, including upcoming reports, the use of open data, enhanced communication activities and the planned enlargement of the Network in 2024. Eight collaborative sessions reflected on important achievements, provided mutual feedback, and encouraged the strengthening of the work of national units as part of a European Community of Practice.

Eurydice recently published a report on diversity and inclusion in schools in Europe. You can find the full study here.

We asked the authors of the report, Sogol Noorani, Diana Antonello and Ania Bourgeois, to answer a few questions on the situation that emerges from their analysis.

Ms. Geleng is the Director of Directorate B in the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission. Her Directorate works to make sure that jobs and skills keep pace with the rapid changes in both the labour market and wider society.

Nathalie Baidak and Anna Horvath are both analysts working in the Unit for Platform, Studies and Analysis at the Executive Agency for Education and Culture of the European Commission (EACEA).