In the News
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09/03/09 Irish Times, "Ireland and Italy least competitive of EU states"
The annual competitiveness survey, which is compiled by the insurer Allianz and the Lisbon Council think tank, measures indicators such as economic growth, productivity, education levels and investment.
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26/02/09 Het Financieele Dagblad, "Zuinig zijn op netgeneration"
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01/02/09 The Parliament, "Reding: Broadband to rescue EU from economic crisis"
“I remain convinced that ICT in general and the internet in particular are the tools we need to get us out of the economic crisis,” Reding told an audience at an event organised by Brussels think-tank the Lisbon Council.
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11/12/08 Newsweek, "Germany's Frau Nein"
"The Germans have much more firepower in their policy arsenal than almost any other government in Europe," says Paul Hofheinz, president of the Lisbon Council, a Brussels think tank.
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20/11/08 Trends Tendances, "Comme Obama, dopez votre entreprise grace au Web participatif!
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19/11/08 Rzeczpospolita, "Lepiej uczą za granicą"
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18/11/08 Chronicle of Higher Education, "European Universities Must Do More to Meet Economic...
Universities in several European countries are failing to meet the social and economic demands of complex modern economies, says a new report from a Brussels-based think tank that surveyed the higher-education systems of 17 nations, including the United States. The nations in the study, by the Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal, are among the 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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18/11/08 Global Higher Education, "‘University Systems Ranking (USR)’: an alternative...
Yesterday The Lisbon Council, an EU think-tank (see our entry here for a profile of this influential think-tank) released which might be considered a challenge to the Shanghai Jiao Tong and Times Higher ranking schemes - a University Systems Ranking (USR) in their report University Systems Ranking Citizens and Society in the Age of Knowledge. The difference between this ranking system and the Shanghai and Times is that if focuses on country-level data and change, and not the individual institution.
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18/11/08 Süddeutsche Zeitung, "Fürs Arbeitsleben ungeeignet"
Deutsche Hochschulen bilden zu wenig aus und orientieren sich nicht genug an den Bedürfnissen des Arbeitsmarktes. Das ist ein Ergebnis einer Studie der Brüsseler Denkfabrik The Lisbon Council, die an diesem Dienstag in der belgischen Hauptstadt vorgestellt wird.
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18/11/08 EurActiv, "Inclusive universities 'best placed to deliver'"
Universities that accept a broad range of students and offer lifelong-learning opportunities - specifically, those of Australia, the UK and Denmark - have the best higher education systems in terms of responding to economic and social challenges, according to Brussels-based think tank the Lisbon Council.
