EUROGRADUATE 2022. 2nd phase of the European pilot survey of higher education graduates 

EUROGRADUATE 2022 initiated the 2nd phase of a European pilot survey of higher education graduates. The number of participating countries increased from 8 to 17, covering more than half of the countries of the European Economic Area.
EUROGRADUATE aims at laying the ground for a sustainable European graduate survey. This is an exciting initiative to map the impact that experiences of European graduates during their time as students have had on their professional lives and their lives as European citizens. The project explores how graduates studied, whether they are satisfied with their studies, which competencies they achieve, whether they travelled abroad, and what they did after graduation. The results will be used to compare the different higher education systems in Europe and identify ways in which they can better prepare young people for the world of work and their role in society. The results of the study will help universities to improve their study programmes and teaching methods, support future students in their study decisions and serve as a source of information for policy makers. At European level, this data will help to analyse progress in the realisation of the European Education Area.
EUROGRADUATE 2022 was led by an international consortium of four partner organisations: German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW, Germany, coordination), Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS, Austria), Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at the University of Maastricht (ROA, The Netherlands), and cApStAn linguistic quality control (Belgium). National research teams implemented the EUROGRADUATE survey 2022 in the participating countries. GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Studies provided external quality assurance services to the project.
The project ran from mid of December 2021 to mid of March 2025.