Midwives, members of allied health professionals and nurses make up 64 % of the personnel in the Austrian health sector. These occupational groups are now being educated at the tertiary level – at universities of applied sciences. Due to this...

Within a decade a paradigm shift in the funding of German universities has taken place: autonomy, competition and performance criteria now take center stage. Steering efforts of governments shifted from regulatory interventions to financial...

This report provides an overview of relevant policy information and stakeholders’ views on quality-related funding, performance agreements and profiling in a number of selected countries. The study is conducted for the Dutch Ministry of Education...

The grants of the European Research Council (ERC) aim to support »frontier research«. In other words, they encourage the pursuit of questions at or beyond the frontiers of knowledge, without regard for established disciplinary boundaries. ERC...

Public funding of European higher education represents approximately 1% of GDP. In contrast, private funding represents only 0.1% of GDP. As many OECD countries are even reducing their contributions to higher education funding, private means of...

Whatever you would like to know about the doctoral education at the The International Max Planck Research School, Erwin Neher and Steffen Burkhardt will be able to tell you. At the HRK conference on doctoral training in Europe and North America...

What importance does competition assume in state models for performance-based funding in German higher education? This is the guiding question of this presentation. With a view to answering it the presentation commences by introducing shortly...