European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade

ISBN-13: 9783030563158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 596 str.

Adrian Curaj; Ligia Deca; Remus Pricopie

Spis treści

Introduction.- Part 1: Furthering the internationalization of higher education: particular challenges in the EHEA (coordinated by Hans de Wit and Ligia Deca).- Part 2: Access and success for every learner in higher education (coordinated by David Crosier and Mihai Cezar Hâj).- Part 3: Advancing learning and teaching in the EHEA: innovation, links with research, and cooperation with the ERA (coordinated by Michael Gaebel and Romiță Iucu).- Part 4: The future of the EHEA - principles, challenges and ways forward (coordinated by Sjur Bergan and Liviu Matei).- Part 5: Bologna Process in the global higher education arena. Going digital?” (coordinated by Dominic Orr and Adrian Curaj). 

O autorze

Adrian Curaj is a former minister of education, science and innovation in Romania. He is the head of the UNESCO Chair on Science and Innovation Policies at the National University of Political Sciences and Public Administration and professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Adrian Curaj has been working as a consultant with World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO, ETF and EC for studies in Tertiary Education, Science and Innovation, and Foresight. He has been actively involved as project leader, country or group leader and expert in many research projects, most of them in research management, higher education management and foresight, areas where he also published scientific articles and books.. He has been the initiator and co-chair of the Bologna Process Researchers Conferences (2011, 2014, 2017, 2020). Adrian Curaj was member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Fulbright Commission in Romania and the Romanian representative at the Bologna Follow-Up Group.  Also, professor Curaj is member of the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome, member of the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO and fellow to the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS).

Ligia Deca is currently the Presidential Adviser for Education and Research within the Romanian Presidential Administration. In this capacity, she also coordinates the “Educated Romania” National Project.

She graduated a PhD program in Political Sciences and Educational Policies at the University of Luxembourg and was a research fellow at the „New Europe College”, with a focus on internationalization of higher education.

Author of several papers and studies in the field of educational policies, Deca also worked as an expert for the Council of Europe, European Commission, EQAR, DAAD etc. In 2014 she was a member of the ‘Science in Education’ Expert Group set-up by the European Commission and in 2019 she was chosen as an evaluating expert for the European Universities pilot project. Ligia Deca is also a member of the Board of Directors at Fulbright in Romania, since 2017.

Remus Pricopie, PhD, is the rector of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) and former Romanian Minister of National Education. His activity within the Romanian Ministry of National Education began in 1996, and includes positions such as Spokesperson, Secretary General, and Deputy Minister – (Secretary of State) for Higher Education, International Relations and Teacher Training. Dr. Pricopie is also professor of public relations and public communication at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest (SNSPA). He has been elected rector of the SNSPA in March 2012, a position he occupied until he was appointed minister of education.

Dr. Pricopie has a PhD in Political Science at the SNSPA and he is a Millennium Fulbright alumnus. His educational background includes a rich international experience especially in the United States of America and the European Union. Dr. Pricopie has been Chair of the Task Force on Fostering and Building Human Capital (FBHC) of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)and President of the Board of Directors of the Romanian-US Fulbright Commission, to name just a few of the significant activities of representation he carried out during his professional career. The activity of Dr. Pricopie encompasses trans-disciplinary research in the areas of higher education management, internationalization of higher education, public communication, public participation and collaborative public management.

Blurb

This open access book highlights the major outcomes of the fourth edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (January 2020), which has already established itself as a landmark in the European higher education environment. The conference provides a unique forum for dialogue between researchers, experts and policy makers in the field of higher education, all of which is documented in this proceedings volume.

The publication focuses on topics of high interest for the European higher education debates, in line with the Paris Ministerial Communiqué priorities, such as furthering internationalization of higher education, access and success for every learner in higher education, advancing learning and teaching in the EHEA: innovation and links with research, the future of the EHEA - principles, challenges and ways forward or Bologna Process in the global higher education arena in terms of going digital.

European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade marks 21 years of Bologna Process and 10 years of EHEA and brings together a unique collection of contributions that not only reflect on all that has been achieved in these years, but more importantly, shape directions for the future.

 “Taking the long view, I continue to believe that the Bologna process is one of the only truly pan-European, democratic processes that we have developed in Europe, including the broader Europe. As such, it is crucial to our European identity that it continues to flourish, as one of the few cross border initiatives that unites all European countries and people, in our case, in particular, the pan European academic community.

European universities have long played an important role in the European project. Since the founding of the EUA in May 2001, and even before, one of its goals focused on the importance of higher education institutions playing an active and comprehensive role in the Bologna Process, across the continent, thus contributing to the creation of a vibrant European civil society.

Now, in 2020, we look forward to the next round of Bologna discussions, planned to be held in Rome, at a time when not only in Europe, but also world-wide, the challenges are daunting. Therefore we need to continue to work together, and pool our resources together across the continent, and maintain the Bologna spirit and ingenuity that has enabled us to move forward together, over more than two decades.  

Europe has gone through several crises and European integration has never been straightforward. As stated in the Schuman Declaration in 1950 “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.”

Lesley Wilson, former Secretary General, European University Association