FUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION: A VIEW ACROSS EUROPE

European higher education institutions need to modernise their governance and train their leaders
to operate in increasingly complex sets of interactions at the institutional, regional, national and
European level. European policies call for universities to play a strong role in the Lisbon Agenda and
in making Europe a strong knowledge-based economy. Although the need to train university leaders
is so obvious, the supply of management support to higher education institutions, their leaders and
managers is highly fragmented in Europe.