ESMU

ESMU, the European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities was created in 1986 as an international think tank non profit association to promote the strategic management of European universities. By offering management development programmes, benchmarking exercises and a learning environment on good management practices, ESMU brings valuable support to European universities striving to further their strategic developments.

Its web site is at http://www.esmu.be/

Activities

Over the years ESMU has developed a portfolio of activities to further promote strategic management practices in higher education through networks, projects, benchmarking exercises, seminars and training programme.

Early 1999, ESMU launched a European Benchmarking programme on university management. Benchmarking is a self-improvement tool for organisations. It allows them to compare themselves with others, identify comparative strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to improve. Benchmarking finds and adopt good practices that go beyond the mere comparison of data.

See ESMU Benchmarking in European Higher Education