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EENEE publishes a new ad-hoc report on Financing Education in the Context of COVID-19 prepared by authors Kristof De Witte  and Mike Smet. The report covers the following aspects: The education funding response to COVID-19. The mechanisms on how the school closures might affect the learning outcomes of students. Available evidence of the impact of … Continued

Do workers and firms take advantage of the lower opportunity cost of labour and invest in adult learning during recessions, in the hope of having higher skills when the economy will take up again? We investigate the relationship between adult learning and the business cycle in the EU-27 countries, using data from the European Labour … Continued

The European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, has awarded a contract to implement and further develop the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER). The objectives for the new three-year contract are to strengthen ETER as the reference source for data on higher education institutions, enhance data expertise and management capability in Europe. In … Continued

In this report, the authors investigate the cyclicality of skill accumulation in Europe, using data from the European Labour Force Survey (ELFS) for 2005-18. Pooling data across all EU-27 countries, and across employed and not employed workers, the authors estimate that adult learning – which comprises both formal education and training – is acyclical and that training is mildly countercyclical.

Please see below a warm welcome message from the present Coordination team members, the scientific coordinator, Dr Miroslav Beblavý, deputy scientific coordinator, Dr Dovilė Jonavičienė, administrative coordinator, Ms Justė Vežikauskaitė, and deputy administrative coordinator, Ms Deimantė Kazlauskaitė. Dear reader, Education and training are the key contributors to competitiveness, employability, social inclusion and active citizenship and … Continued

We are delighted to introduce the new www.eenee.eu. Over the last four months, we worked very hard to redesign EENEE’s visual identity and create a user-friendly accessible website for all. Our goal with the new website is to provide an effective exchange platform for education economists in Europe, as well as an easily accessible information device for policymakers, journalists, and other people interested in the economics of education and training in Europe.