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Overview

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Aug 2011 - Jul 2012

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

None declared

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    None declared

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    None declared

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Graham Mitchell (Senior Manager Research Development)

  • Categories

    Category

    IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions

    Subcategory

    Academic institutions

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Aug 2011 - Jul 2012

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    None declared

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None declared

    Communication activities

    None declared

    Other activities

    None declared

  • 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.

    • 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)
      Other Lobbyists
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