The Advisory Committee on Sensitive Collaborations has issued a preliminary recommendation on cooperation with partners in Israel and Palestine.
The committee recommends that any new partnerships be frozen. The Executive Board intends to adopt the advice and will discuss it with the deans. More time is needed to assess the existing partnerships. In the coming months, the committee will analyse each of these partnerships in more depth on the basis of the framework for the committee's work, resulting in a concrete recommendation for each cooperation partner.
Executive Board response
The Executive Board reacts to the preliminary recommendation: We are grateful to the committee for the hard work that has been done in recent months to arrive at the requested assessment and this first recommendation on new collaborations in Israel-Palestine. We also understand that advice on existing cooperative relationships requires a complicated consideration that needs more time. As EUR, we attach great importance to our collaborations and a careful evaluation of the relationship, based on our own preconditions and with respect for the circumstances and basic values of our cooperation partner, is part of this. From this background of due diligence, we also understand the Committee's recommendation to temporarily suspend the establishment of new partnerships. We will discuss this with the deans of our faculties. With regard to travel by students and staff in existing collaborations, we naturally always follow the travel advice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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