EURASHE’s 2015 work programme comes as a continuation of our previous engagement in 3 focus areas: Mission of Professional Higher Education, Excellence and Employability and LLL. Based on the needs of members, from 2015 EURASHE is engaging in the area of Research, Development and Innovation. Strategic priorities within these 4 focus areas are redefined and include as well new focuses. All of the activities in 2015 are directly linked to the above and influence our work on training and capacity building, research and development, and policy and advocacy.In the past 2 years, EURASHE has made great developments on bringing together PHE institutions, especially through the project on the harmonisation of PHE. After developing the definition and a set of characteristics, further advocacy on its implementation will be done through the Task Force on Mission of PHE. We will put further efforts on focusing on the regional level, where this sector shows the highest level of harmonisation working in similar cultural contexts, in order to strengthen institutions regionally and enrich their cooperation (Seminars in Poland and Serbia). As a specific niche within higher education, PHE Institutions, besides the government support, relay on other sources of funding and these will be researched and shared as best practice. One of the questions brought up as the outcome of the finished HAPHE project are the close links between higher VET and Higher Education. We aim at looking into paths from progression from higher VET to PHE. Finally, lowering student drop-out rate as one of the ET2020 goals is on the agenda of EURASHE’s research and training activities in the following 3 years.In the field of Excellence, EURASHE’s working group on Quality of HE will focus on the competence of teaching staff members. EURASHE aims at reaching in the following years practitioners, grassroots level and give more focus to trainings. At the same time, we will look into mobility of staff members, starting the discussion with a roundtable in Brussels (BE). Finally, as the revised European Standards and Guidelines are being published, we will host a set of trainings to ensure a strong implementation on the institutional level.Employability is one of the core focuses of EURASHE’s policy making and raising awareness, as well as our major input in the BFUG discussions (Structural Reform; Implementation of the Bologna Process). With a produced policy paper in 2014, 2015 will be focusing on its dissemination and strong efforts in building a cross-sectorial dialogue. Set of events-discussion forums will be organised in order to enlarge the culture of cooperation between the world of work and PHE Institutions. A project will be prepared with a focus on strengthening the links between stakeholders and quality apprenticeships will be promoted in line with EURASHE’s commitments to recently signed pledge of the Alliance for Apprenticeships.At our events, we will host over 1.000 participants from 40 countries. All the reports and recommendations will be widely disseminated through events, conferences and communication channels. All the 1.100 HE institutions will be supported to attend trainings in order to reach the grassroots level and this way increase the impact (Beyond Rectors Initiative). More than 20 organisations will be introduced with our activities, especially giving focus to the world of work, developing activities aiming at ensuring their strong presence and commitment.