Overview

Teachers are at the heart of every education system. But how are they rewarded across Europe? Explore the Eurydice interactive tool to compare statutory salaries, allowances and career structures across 37 European education systems. The webtool provides comparative and national data on the statutory salaries and allowances of full-time teachers and school heads in public schools across the Eurydice Network. It covers all EU Member States, as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Türkiye. What makes the tool the stand out? It allows you to browse salary data by education level, from pre-primary to upper secondary; to track how salaries evolve across school years and throughout a career; and you can download the full dataset or export visuals for easy use. Discover the latest data, explore how teacher salaries and career progression are structured in each country, and gain a deeper understanding of education systems across Europe.

EHESO is strengthening its dialogue with European Universities alliances to better understand their monitoring needs and explore how the Observatory can support evidence-informed policy and alliance-level reflection. Recent exchanges with alliance coordinators, FOREU4ALL and researchers are helping shape EHESO’s contribution to monitoring the European Universities initiative.

This edition highlights new developments that further strengthen EHESO as a European source of evidence, data and analytical tools for higher education policy and practice. At the forefront is the release of the revised European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard, which introduces new analytical features, enhanced visualisations and improved data accessibility. The updated platform enables users to explore higher education systems across Europe more effectively, supporting evidence-informed policymaking and comparative analysis. This edition also highlights EHESO's growing engagement with the European Universities initiative. Through ongoing dialogue with alliance coordinators, FOREU4ALL, researchers and policymakers, EHESO is helping to shape a common approach to monitoring European Universities alliances, building on interoperable data, shared definitions and robust analytical tools. Another example of EHESO's contribution to the European higher education landscape is its collaboration with the European Patent Office. By providing reliable institutional microdata and unique identifiers, EHESO supports the Deep Tech Finder, helping increase the visibility of European universities, their spin-outs and their contribution to Europe's research and innovation ecosystem. Finally, we invite you to save the date for two upcoming EHESO events where we will continue to explore and discuss EHESO data and tools with stakeholders. The third EHESO online policy workshop will focus on evidence-based monitoring of European Universities alliances, while the annual EHESO policy-oriented conference will explore how data can support student-centred higher education policies. Together, these developments reinforce EHESO's mission to provide high-quality data, analytical insights and practical tools that support evidence-based decision-making across the European higher education sector. In that context we invite higher education institutions to help us strengthen the European higher education evidence base and to register now for the EHESO 2026/2027 data collection, which will begin in November 2026.

This Eurydice report focuses on the topic of equity and inclusion in higher education in Europe. It analyses the current level of alignment of European higher education systems with the ten Principles & Guidelines agreed by all EHEA countries as a blueprint to take forward the commitment of improving the social dimension.

We are pleased to announce the date of the upcoming EHESO policy-oriented conference, which will take place on 5 November 2026 as a full-day hybrid event, with both in-person participation in Brussels and online attendance options available. The conference will bring together policymakers, HEI and student representatives, researchers, and other stakeholders to explore how EHESO data can support student-centred higher education policies.

We are pleased to announce the date of the upcoming EHESO policy workshop, which will take place on 13 October 2026 as a half-day online event. The workshop will bring together policymakers, HEI and student representatives, researchers, and other stakeholders to explore how EHESO can contribute to evidence-based monitoring of European Universities alliances.

The Intro to EHESO Microdata training addresses first-time and entry-level EHESO Microdata users (e.g. early career researchers, policymakers,…). The main goal is to inform about the coverage of the EHESO Microdata, enable users to navigate through the EHESO microdata interface, select the data of interest (variables, countries, years) and extract data according to their needs.