Collecting and analysing comparable data on the social dimension of European higher education has always been the core of the EUROSTUDENT project. Ninoslav Šćukanec Schmidt (founder and executive director of the Institute for the Development of Education in Croatia, former co-chair of the BFUG Working Group on Social Dimension) and Horia Onița (head of the EHEA Secretariat, former co-chair of the BFUG Working Group on Social Dimension) have digged deeper into the topic of the Social Dimension and provided us with an overview of the ‘Indicators and Descriptors for the Principles of the Social Dimension’, a toolbox approach for countries, which was endorsed at the EHEA Ministerial Conference in May 2024. Our guests reflected upon the framework and how it can help countries to support their HE policies while keeping the social dimension in mind.