Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have continued to attract considerable media coverage asgovernments and universities respond to the open and online education movement. Three yearsafter the MOOCs began its rise, it is clear that the HE institutions in the EU are gaining speed in thismovement.This report on MOOCs intends to contribute to literature on MOOCs in Europe. Its specific aim is topresent data on the perception and objectives of European higher education institutions on MOOCsand the main drivers behind the MOOC movement. In addition, the report makes a comparison withsimilar studies conducted in the United States in 2013 and 2014 and to data produced by theEuropean University Association (EUA) between October and December 2013. The report made clearthat involvement is still increasing, but also that arguments to get involved differ from those in theUS.The main source is a survey conducted by the project HOME - Higher education Online: MOOCs theEuropean way, partly funded by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme. Thesurvey was conducted in October - December 2014. In total 67 institutions responded out of 22European countries representing in total about 2.8 millions of students.