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Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has caused vast displacement of people within the country as well as across the EU borders. While the annexation of Crimea had a negative impact on the country's education system, recent events have added additional strain. Outbound student mobility was already substantial in recent years, but it has accelerated even further since the Crimean conflict began . After doubling from some 25 000 to nearly 50 000 between 2007 and 2014, the number of Ukrainian ...

The aging of the EU population and a shortage of skills, coupled with competition from other attractive destinations for the talented and the highly skilled, have created a need for more effective EU policies in this area. EU legislation has been evaluated as insufficient to fully tackle the challenge, but new and improved rules for foreign students and researchers come into effect this month.

The aging of the EU population and a shortage of skills, coupled with competition from other attractive destinations for the talented and the highly skilled, have created a need for more effective EU policies in this area. This is especially important because current EU legislation has been evaluated as insufficient to fully tackle the challenge.

In his answers to the questionnaire and during the hearing on 30 September 2014 before the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), commissioner-designate Dimitris Avramopoulos made a number of commitments. They are summarised in the present briefing.

The European Union faces major structural and demographic challenges. To maintain its position as world-leading economy, the EU needs to attract more skilled labour. Students from third countries are an important source of skilled workers, while the EU has a shortage of the researchers and innovators desperately required if the Union is to meet its economic growth targets.

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment accompanying the following proposal, submitted on 25 March 2013: Commission Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of research, studies, pupil exchange, remunerated and unremunerated training, voluntary service and au pairing, recasting and amending Directives ...

A Green Paper on "Modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive" was published by the European Commission (EC) on 22 June 2011. The Directive aims to facilitate the free movement of professionals within the EU, regardless of the Member State in which they acquired their professional qualification. Updating the Directive is one of the twelve projects for 2012 in the Single Market Act, a series of measures adopted by the EC to boost the European economy and create jobs.

European policy papers stress the need to further improve the quantity and quality of overall international mobility in education. In this context, the study aims at providing up to date information on student mobility in secondary and tertiary level education and in vocational training. The study evaluates the extent of student mobility into and out of individual EU Member States. National measures to promote student mobility are analysed and compared with regard to their effectiveness and efficiency ...