Welcome to the website of the EU-Asia Higher Education Platform (EAHEP), a European Union sponsored initiative to promote cooperation in higher education between Asian and European countries. This initiative compliments a series of completed and ongoing projects that contribute to the development and internationalisation of higher education in both regions. It aims to:

• Provide a means for enhancing information exchange, dialogue, and cooperation in higher education and research between the two regions;

• Develop best practices for institutional development and cooperation, and foster mobility of students and academics between the two regions;

• Draw attention to the role and situation of universities in developing countries.

This website is designed to provide useful information on higher education systems in Europe and Asia, study and research opportunities, cooperation projects and initiatives, funding schemes, and the EAHEP project events that will be planned throughout 2008-9.

The project consists of a series of thematic, multi-stakeholder events across Asia and Europe, including round tables, workshops, European higher education fairs and symposia. Themes to be explored include university partnerships, student/faculty mobility, university governance and management, developing graduate studies, curriculum development and bi-regional cooperation projects, and the external impacts of the Bologna Process, Europe’s 46 country higher education reform process.

The EU-Asia Higher Education Platform is financed specifically under the European Commission’s EuropeAid Agency and is being implemented by the European University Association (EUA), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic).


Project events include:

European Higher Education Fair (EHEF) and Symposia: New Delhi, India, 12-14 November

European Higher Education Fair (EHEF) and Symposium: Bangkok, Thailand, 30 Oct- 1 November, 2009

Round Table: Autonomy, Governance and Management in Higher Education in Asia and Europe, Hanoi, Vietnam, 25-26 November

Workshop: Doctoral/Graduate Education in Asia and Europe, Beijing, China, 8-9 December

Workshop: Student Mobility, Joint Degrees and Institutional Development, 16-17 February, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

International Partnerships in Higher Education: Policies, Practices and Lessons Learned, 8-9 June, Jakarta, Indonesia

Workshops and Roundtables are closed invite events, however results, summary reports and follow-up topics will be pasted on this website under ‘Events’.


Eligible countries for funding under this project:

Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Loas, Maldives, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. (Brunei, Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea may be associated but can not receive funding).

Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, FYROM, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom