Resumen de Trends and challenges in funding and governance of universities in Europe

Thomas Estermann, Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Veronika Kupriyanova

• Higher education Institutions in the 21st century face grand global challenges, while at the same time many stakeholders have increasing expectations of universities. In Europe universities have been equally facing a complex financial situation in which conventional models of funding have been transformed and continue to evolve. This paper addresses some of the trends observed in the last decade connected to university funding and governance in relation to these global challenges and what kind of reforms are needed at system and institutional level to address them.