Higher Education and Research in the European Union: Mobility Schemes, Social Rights and Youth Policies

ISBN-13: 9783030856892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Despoina Anagnostopoulou; Dimitrios Skiadas

O autorze

Associate Professor Despoina Anagnostopoulou teaches EU Law, Policies and Institutions at the Department of International & European Studies at the University of Macedonia (Greece) since 2004 and at the Open University of Cyprus since 2016. She worked as a researcher at the Centre of International and European Economic Law (Greece)  for 11 years. Her current research focuses on digital economy and trade policies, EU citizenship, human rights and non-discrimination, EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. She has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair on "New Dimensions of EU Legal Studies" (2012-2015) and the UNESCO Chair of "Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity" since 2014. She has also been the Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Research on Crucial Issues of European Integration" at the University of Macedonia. 

Professor Dimitrios Skiadas teaches EU Governance, EU Public Policy and EU Law at the Department of International & European Studies at the University of Macedonia (Greece). He has experience working in Higher Education (including CEDEFOP, the Ministry of Education in Greece, the Education Committee of the EU Council, the Bologna Follow Up Group), as well as in the Public Sector and the EU Institutions. His research interests include Public Policy Analysis, European and Public Law, Budgetary Law, Combatting Fraud.  He has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Budgetary Governance and Audit.

Blurb

This interdisciplinary book consists of three parts which examine the European Union policies on research and innovation, education and life-long learning, as well as the European Union Pillar on social rights and youth policies. In the first part, high-level experts analyze the European Research Area and its current enhancement, with emphasis on mobility and employability of researchers, especially in times of crises.

In the second part, the governance architecture of the European Education Area(s) is explored and the new objectives of the Bologna Process, as well as the EU institutional framework of the recognition of skills and qualifications, are analyzed. Life-long learning is also important for the individual development of human capital especially for socially vulnerable people who could also benefit from literacy policies and skills development. The second part concludes with the evaluation of the EU education and training policy based on social indicators in the framework of the EU 2020 Strategy.

In the third part, the book turns to Social Europe and the balancing between ordo-liberalism and ordo-socialism. It examines the EU Pillar of Social Rights and its impact on youth policies. It analyzes the EU youth policies e.g. on youth credit and their interaction with young people’s employment and education possibilities, with emphasis on the young people "not in education, employment or training" (NEETs).