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EUROGRADUATE 2026 marks the next major step towards Europe-wide coordinated graduate tracking. Based on EUROGRADUATE 2022, harmonised country data will be created as a solid basis for comparable analyses of employability, job satisfaction, skills matching, learning and working mobility, and career paths. Integration into the data infrastructure of the European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO) will provide decision-makers bundled information for evidence-based policy-making.
Comparable graduate data for effective policy
EUROGRADUATE is a long-term European initiative to collect, harmonise and provide comparable data on higher education graduates in Europe. The survey provide insights into the employment situation, skills utilisation, satisfaction and learning and working mobility of higher education graduates in Europe, thereby supporting decision-relevant policy-making.
‘EUROGRADUATE 2026 will make even more comparable evidence on the outcomes and careers of university graduates available across Europe for the first time. This creates a sound basis for effective, evidence-based measures in education, the labour market and location development,’ says Georg Zahradnik, project manager at the AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy.
Seamless integration into existing data infrastructureA crucial step is the ongoing full integration of EUROGRADUATE into the existing European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO). EHESO is a central infrastructure for pooling, analysing and communicating high-quality data on the European higher education sector. As a central platform, EHESO supports the European Strategy for Universities (ES4U) – the EU's framework strategy for the higher education sector. This gives academia, institutions and policymakers consolidated, integrated access to reliable information for better, evidence-based decision-making.
Added value for policymakers, researchers, institutions and students‘By integrating it into EHESO, EUROGRADUATE 2026 enables comparative analyses across countries and systems,’ says Benedetto Lepori, researcher at AIT and scientific coordinator of EHESO. This provides decision-makers, researchers, universities and students with valid, comparable evidence to better understand
- how higher education supports skills development,
- how graduates position themselves in the labour market,
- how skills and labour market requirements match, and
- how mobility experiences influence learning outcomes and career paths.
Key initiative for a competitive and inclusive EuropeAs a key initiative to strengthen graduate tracking, EUROGRADUATE 2026 regularly provides comparable evidence on outcomes and skill utilisation at European level. The project thus makes a central contribution to evidence-based policies for a competitive and inclusive European Education Area (EEA).