Higher education and research cooperation between EU and ASEAN has been intensifying in recent years through wide-ranging dialogue and in particular through EC funded projects that aim to strengthen collaboration between the two regions in a variety of fields. Specifically, the field is the focus of a number of collaboration support platforms, such as the ACCESS Project, supported by the Erasmus Mundus Programme, the SEA-EU-NET Project, funded under FP7, and the ASEM Education Hub (AEH), run by the Asia-Europe Foundation.

The South East Asia-Europe Higher education and Research Forum has the following objectives:

a) to make the point on EU-SEA cooperation in the field of higher education and research in terms of achievements and future challenges;
b) to facilitate knowledge exchange among all the projects and platforms active in supporting EU-Asian cooperation in the fields of higher education and research;
c) to present the findings of the ACCESS Project, as a contribution to EU-SEA higher education dialogue, including the White Paper on EU-SEA Higher Education Cooperation
d) to present the findings of the SEAU-NET Project in the field of EU-SEA research cooperation, including the new OECD Study on Innovations systems in Southeast Asia.

Expected participation:

Policy makers from Europe and SEA dealing with Higher education and Research, higher education and research  stakeholders (by invitation only)