The European Higher Education (EHEA) 10 Years Later. April 15th 2021 Round Table 2

The construction of a European Higher Education Area (EAHEA) was formalized in Vienna in 2010. Also called “The Bologna Process”, this intergovernmental initiative launched in Bologna (Italy) in 1999 boosted far-reaching reforms with the goal of adopting common structures of higher education systems based on 3 cycles at the European level.



Intended as a tool of increased transparency, this approach also sought to develop student mobility and, of course, the attractiveness of the European area. This area extends far beyond the EU as, since 2015, this initiative counts no less than 48 European countries adhering to the European Cultural Convention and located across the entire European continent, from Finland to Cyprus and from Ireland to Russia.



The European Higher Education Area is celebrating its 10th anniversary and the BMD harmonization (bachelor-master- doctorate) and the ECTS system (European credit transfer system) resulting from the “Bologna Process” turned 20. A good occasion to take stock on progress made and the challenges ahead.





ROUND TABLE 2

PERSPECTIVES: How to drive the EHEA forward? How to make progress visible for future students, for their parents and for international students and researchers?



Moderator: Matt Symonds, QS Quacquarelli Symonds & columnist at Forbes, BBC

Cécile Blondel, Gobelins, L’école de l’image, Paris
Eric Cassan, Université Paris-Saclay
Axel Honsdorf, BayFrance, Munich
Patrick Lévy, Université Grenoble Alpes & European University Association
Grzegorz Mazurek, Kozminski University, Warsaw



IN PARTNERSHIP WITH :

Maison de l’Europe de Paris, CEP France (Centre de politique européenne) and the support of Deutsch-Französische Hochschule/Université franco-allemande.