The Center of Sociology of Higher Education has been coordinating the International Consortium "Student Experience in Research University" together with the University of California – Berkeley (USA) for seversl years. At the moment the research team is working on broadening the project: it is planned to study not only undergraduate students but graduate students as well. In University of Utrecht (October 10-11, 2016) there was Symposium “GradSERU Europe and Beyond” where advantages and challenges were discussed.