U-Map is a project funded by the European Commission in which earlier work concerned with the European classification of higher education institutions is further developed and implemented. U-Map offers two tools to enhance transparency. ProfileFinder produces a list of higher education institutions (HEIs) that are comparable on the characteristics that have been selected. ProfileViewer gives an institutional activity profile that can used to compare three HEIs. U-Map is presented in demo-mode. It will be fully operational when the underlying database comprises a sufficient number of higher education institutions.

Metrics for knowledge exchange and regional engagement amongst others are used

See http://www.u-map.eu/ for more details

Earlier pieces of work from CHEPs at the University of Twente (2005) Institutional Profiles - towards a typology of higher education institutions in Europe and (2008) Mapping Diversity: Developing a European Classification of Higher Education Institutions. The first of these reports is downloadable at http://doc.utwente.nl/53776/ and for convenience is attached.