European Union

Selected European Resources:

• 1997 Lisbon Convention
  • “Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region”
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• 1998 Sorbonne, Paris
  • “World Declaration and Framework for Priority Action for Change and Development in Higher Education”
    The declaration is adopted by the World Conference on Higher Education, which highlights priority actions to be taken at the national level, at the level of systems and institutions, and at the international level for the renewal and revitalization of higher education.
  • PDF
  • Website
• 1999 Bologna Declaration
  • Twenty-nine European Ministers in charge of higher education signed the Bologna Declaration, which aims at establishing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) as of the year 2010.
  • The Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999 - PDF
  • From Berlin to Bergen and beyond - Website
  • Bologna Treaty - Website
  • “The European Higher Education Area” Joint Declaration of the European Ministers of Education - Website
  • Realising the European Higher Education Area - PDF
• 2001 Prague Conference
  • Thirty-two European Ministers met in Prague to review the progress made towards the Bologna Agreement and to set the directions and priorities of the process.
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• 2003 Berlin Conference – “Realizing the European Higher Education Area”
  • European Ministers accept six more countries for membership, expanding the Bologna Process to forty European countries.
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• 2004 Bucharest - “Doctoral Studies and Qualifications in Europe and the United States: Status and Prospects”
  • PDF
• Bergen 2005 – “The European Higher Education Area – Achieving the Goals”
  • PDF
• 2005 Salzburg Seminar “Doctoral Programs for the European Knowledge Society”
  • Bologna Seminar on “Doctoral Programmes for the European Knowledge Society” - PDF
    The EU and Doctoral studies for the European knowledge society - PDF
• Irish Universities Quality Board
  • Brochure on “Good Practice In The Organisation Of Phd Programmes In Irish Universities”
    PDF
• European University Association
  • Website
  • Doctoral Programs Project - Website

European Research and Innovation Area (ERIA)

• Main Resources:
  • ERIA - PDF
  • What is the European Research Area? - Website
• Related Resources:
  • On the Way to an Enlarged European Research and Innovation Area - PDF
  • Structuring the European Research Area - PDF
  • The European Research and Innovation Area - Website
  • “Towards a Europe of Knowledge and Innovation”, the EIROforum paper on science policy - Website
    SER, European Research Area - Website
• Eastern Europe
  • The International Higher Education Support program (HESP) of the Open Society Institute promotes the advancement of higher education within the humanities and social sciences in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe; the former Soviet Union; and Mongolia.
• France
  Doctoriales
  www.doctoriales.com (English version)
  • Created by the Ministry of Defense and the Bernard Gregory Association (l’Association Bernard Gregory), the Doctoriales are seminars organized to improve employability of doctoral students in France. The seminars are run in cooperation with industry in order to make the doctorate in the sciences more innovative and try to give young scientists a wider choice of career options.
• Europe
  Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
  www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE/international
  • FIPSE currently administers three special focus international competitions. The European Community/United States Cooperation Program in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training sponsors projects supporting consortia of higher education institutions that promote institutional cooperation and student mobility between the U.S. and European Community. The Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education provides funding for institutional cooperation and student exchange among colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program sponsors projects promoting institutional cooperation and student mobility between the U.S .and Brazil.