Dr. Kai Mühleck

The EUROGRADUATE 2022 Technical Report complements the final comparative report by detailing the project organisation and methodology used; it also provides an assessment of the quality standard achieved in the EUROGRADUATE 2022 survey, as well as a summary of the lessons learned and recommendations for its further sustainability and quality enhancement. The long-term goal of EUROGRADUATE is to establish a source of comprehensive, comparable, and regular data on higher education graduates covering all countries of the European Economic Area (EEA). The EUROGRADUATE 2022 survey constitutes a significant contribution to the enhancement of the European Education Area, not least through its contribution to the recent Union of Skills initiative.

This publication provides an executive summary of the key findings of the EUROGRADUATE 2022 Comparative Synthesis Report. The EUROGRADUATE 2022 pilot survey provides an analysis on the careers, competences, and citizenship of over 100.000 higher education graduates in 18 EU/EEA countries, covering graduates of the academic years 2020/21 and 2016/17 (one and five years after graduation) on ISCED-2011 levels 6 (Bachelor) and 7 (Master or long degree programs). Monitoring graduate outcomes can improve graduates' integration on the labour market and better address existing and potential skills gaps and mismatches. The EUROGRADUATE 2022 survey constitutes a significant contribution to the enhancement of the European Education Area.

This comparative synthesis report of the EUROGRADUATE 2022 pilot survey provides an analysis on the careers, competences, and citizenship of over 100.000 higher education graduates in 18 EU/EEA countries, covering graduates of the academic years 2020/21 and 2016/17 (one and five years after graduation) on ISCED-2011 levels 6 (Bachelor) and 7 (Master or long degree programs). The project pursues to monitor the educational pathways of graduates, how they evaluate their study experiences, and how this translates into their professional careers and lives as European citizens. The EUROGRADUATE 2022 survey constitutes a significant contribution to the enhancement of the European Education Area.

Nacaps, the National Academics Panel Study, is a new longitudinal study of doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project aims at providing nationwide cross-sectional and longitudinal data on doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany regarding their study conditions as well as their career trajectories within and outside of academia. The Nacaps study series apply a panel design to multiple cohorts. Nacaps 2018 is the first cohort in this series of studies. In 2019, all doctoral candidates registered at 53 higher education institutions [...] Full Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:nac2018:2.0.0

It continues to be a puzzle that women are disproportionally often dropping out of academic careers. Researchers and policymakers have suggested that same-gender supervisors are important for tightening this ‘leaky pipeline’. Especially in subjects with a strong overrepresentation of men, it seems likely that female supervisors work as positive role models and help preventing discrimination. Anticipating this effect, female doctoral students might also prefer supervisors of the same gender. Therefore, we ask how widespread a gender match is between doctoral student and supervisor in Germany and whether a gender match between supervisors and doctoral students is beneficial for the doctorate and for a possible scientific career thereafter.

The EUROGRADUATE survey is a one-off pilot survey of higher education graduates of the cohorts 2016/17 and 2012/13 in eight European countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Lithuania, Malta, and Norway). The pilot project aims at laying the foundation for a Europe-wide graduate survey. The survey provides insights into the experiences of European graduates during their studies and the impact on their professional lives and their lives as European citizens. Graduates were surveyed one year (t +1, cohort 2016/17) or five years (t +5, cohort 2012/13) after graduation. The main topics of the EUROGRADUATE pilot survey are: [...] Full abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:egr2018:2.0.0

The paper analyses the relationship between characteristics of higher education and political participation. In addition to differences due to fields of subjects we observe a strong relationship with extra-curricular activities such as international mobility, practical training, and voluntary activities. Our results indicate that such activities as well as civic skills help strengthening the political participation of higher education graduates.