The 11th RISIS Policymakers Session took place on 13 June in an online format (2– 5 pm CEST) and was introduced by Yann-Maël Bideau, Policy officer at European Commission. The European University Initiative, promoted by the European Commission has ignited collaborations and alliances across all European countries. The goal of the 11 Policymakers’ session is to discuss the evolution of the Initiative based on new evidence coming from RISIS ETER Dataset. ETER, the European Tertiary Education Register is a systematic and updated collection of official microdata on all higher education institutions in Europe supported by the Commission. ETER data will be used to characterize the Alliances created under the Initiative and to discuss the potential for the long term evolution of the European Higher Education Area. The meeting was organized in two session enriched by two roundtables that saw the participation of the most representatives of European Academic universe: Session One Empirical evidence on the European University Initiative illustrated by Andrea Bonaccorsi, University of Pisa, and Session Two entitled Mapping the European University with the contribution of Marco Cavallaro and Agata Lambrechts, USI.