Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
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High-level Commission meetings
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Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
The Open University (OU)
EU Transparency Register
411351510015-07 First registered on 29 Oct 2012
Goals / Remit
The Open University based in Milton Keynes is the largest university in the UK with more than 250,000 students, 1,200 full-time academic staff and 1,300 research students. As a world class distance learning university we have students based in numerous countries within and outside the European Union. The Open University (OU) is consistently ranked among the top UK universities for the quality of its teaching. In addition The OU supports a vibrant research portfolio and fosters research teams who compete with top ranked institutions in the UK and worldwide. In the latest UK Government Research Assessment Exercise the OU demonstrated real growth in research income and impact by climbing 23 places to 43rd in the rankings. External funding for research and enterprise continues to grow and is now over €25 million per year (2010/11).
The OU partners in some ground breaking initiatives. It was the first UK University to join iTunesU, where over 44 million downloads of OU material have now been made. The OU TESSA project (Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa) provides 200,000 primary school teachers in nine countries with free access to OU materials for the classroom and was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2009. The OU launched OpenLearn in 2006 following a grant from The Hewlett Foundation (USA) to provide free online educational content to anyone anywhere in the world. This now has over 8000 study hours of learning materials available and attracted over 10 million visitors to its website.
The OU is experienced in utilising its multimedia platforms and distance learning technologies to support international initiatives and projects, enabling efficient and effective co-ordination at both the strategic and practical levels. As an online learning provider the OU can use its production capacity to provide reports, case studies and the dissemination of research through a variety of multimedia platforms, ensuring the widest and most effective dissemination of research reports.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
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Person in charge of EU relations
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Person with legal responsibility
Mr Graham Mitchell (Senior Manager Research Development)
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Academic institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
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Member organisations
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
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Other financial info
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
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Groups (European Parliament)
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Communication activities
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Other activities
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- Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 27 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Meeting on adult learning programmes. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
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