Paris, February 19, 2025. The Convention of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) and France Universités have signed at this time a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the headquarters of the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Improvement (OECD) in Paris. This settlement reinforces the ties between each establishments and reaffirms their dedication to worldwide cooperation in increased training and analysis.
The institutional signing ceremony was attended by Spain’s Ambassador to the OECD, Ximo Puig, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for Schooling and Expertise on the OECD. Lamri Adoui, President of France Universités and Rector of the College of Caen Normandy, and Eva Alcón, President of CRUE and Rector of Jaume I College, have been accompanied by their respective delegations, in addition to representatives of France and Spain on the OECD.
The signing of this MoU on the OECD displays the shared intention of CRUE and France Universités to discover new avenues of collaboration with this multilateral group, contributing to the evaluation and design of public insurance policies in key areas similar to educational cooperation, lifelong studying, abilities growth, collaboration in analysis and innovation tasks, digital transformation, and the promotion of inclusive increased training in each nations.
CRUE President Eva Alcón emphasised that this settlement represents a dedication to the longer term and to strengthening college cooperation between Spain and France. “We’ve agreed to foster joint participation in European College Alliances and to advertise science diplomacy. Our aim is to construct an ecosystem of shared excellence, with universities main innovation within the context of digital transformation and the inexperienced transition, aligning with OECD suggestions to combine know-how and digitalization into the academic course of,” Alcón said.
For his half, France Universités President Lamri Adoui highlighted that the settlement is, in his view, “formidable—extra formidable than some other bilateral partnership settlement signed by France Universités previously decade. Whereas it acknowledges the mutual belief established between our two organizations over time, it additionally units exact aims that may require the mobilization of our respective groups by common exchanges.”
With this MoU, CRUE and France Universités strengthen their cooperation and proceed contributing to the event of a extra built-in and aggressive European Larger Schooling Space.
