On 30 and 31 January, the public kick-off of the U-Multirank implementation project will take place at the conference ‘Rankings and the Visibility of Quality Outcomes in the European Higher Education Area’ organised in the framework of the Irish EU-presidency, in Dublin.
Until now university rankings have placed “disproportionate” weight on research excellence, said the European commissioner for education.
Brussels has proposed a funding allocation of €2 million (US$2.7 million) from the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme in 2013-14, with the possibility of a further two years of seed funding in 2015-16.
The first ranking is scheduled to go public in early 2014 covering at least 500 higher education institutions from Europe and beyond. It will provide an institutional ranking of whole institutions as well as field-based rankings for engineering, business and physics. After 2014 the coverage of institutions and fields will be extended progressively.
