In the spirit of fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, the EUBA hosted the Danube Conference 2023 on November 9-10, building on its inception in 2017 at the Ulm University. Rooted in the ethos of sharing experiences and perspectives on emerging challenges, the conference has become a pivotal event in the academic calendar. The Quality Assurance Centre of the EUBA took the reins as the host, steering the international discourse toward ethical considerations in teaching and research and the transformative impact of AI on higher education.

On September 26-29, 2023, the 33rd international education fair of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) took place in Rotterdam. The conference with the central theme "Connecting currents" was attended by more than 6,700 participants from 1,600 institutions from more than 100 countries of the world. In addition to personal meetings and visits of individual exhibitors' stands, the participants of the fair also had the opportunity to participate on interactive workshops, professional seminars and networking events.

On October 10, 2023, the International Office of the EU in Bratislava organized the International Study Abroad Fair to bring students closer to all the possibilities of studying abroad. The fair brought together exchange students of the winter semester 2023/2024 and full-time students who presented their universities through engaging presentations. In addition, they shared their culture, traditions, and cuisine, creating a great opportunity for local students to network.

The results of the collaboration of 15 business and academic partners from all over Europe, created under the OpenMusE Horizon Europe project, after only half a year of cooperation, have already moved us significantly forward, and closer to fulfilling the goals of the project, as well as the Memorandum of Cooperation between the University of Economics in Bratislava (Faculty of Business Management), the Digital Music Observatory, and public institutions supporting the development of the music industry.