Bologna Process 2010 2020

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Bologna Process (2010 2020)

• Aspects of Social Responsibility and
  Responsiveness
• Roberta Maierhofer
• Vice Rector for International Relation and
  Interdisciplinary Cooperation
• Karl-Franzens-University Graz

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Demographic Development

• full/ part-time students
• - student programs are based on demand of labor
  market
• - provider-customer relationship not
  student-teacher
• - Life long learning programs as part of the free
  market

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Knowledge Society and Knowledge Driven Economy

• University responsible for public transfer of
  knowledge
• Reaching all levels of society (childrens
  university, high school programs, open university
  series)
• Aim Widening Participation and Guaranteeing
  Equity of Access

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Short and Part-Time Programs

• Summer Schools
• Evening classes
• Learner focussed programs
• Special need programs

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Demands of Society vs. State Intervention

• - Managerial approach to administration
• State intervention in case of market failures
• State guaranteeing equity and wider
  participation due to grants

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Demands of Techno-economical Systems and demand
of the labor market

• Research focused on these needs
• Collaboration with private sector and private
  industry (external funding)
• Mainstreaming of university offerings
• Stake holder interventions

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International Relations on a Wider Scale

• Collaboration with the growing and developing
  countries
• Collaboration in institutional building
• Collaboration in curriculum development and staff
  qualification

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The Sustainable University

• European Universities committed to international
  collaboration on the basis of an understanding of
  European values of academic freedom,
  institutional autonomy, and active participation
  of students and staff.

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