SOKRATES

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All change please Future perspectives for
European cooperation in higher education
Adam Pokorny
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Changing landscape

• European Council (Lisbon)
• Intergovernmental (Bologna)
• Programmes (Socrates)

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European Council (Lisbon)

• Lisbon European Council, March 2000
• Strategic goal
• to become the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge-based economy in the world capable of
  sustainable economic growth with more and better
  jobs and greater social cohesion
• (para 5)

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European Council (Lisbon)

• Key actions for higher education
• Open method of coordination
• Report on Concrete future objectives of the
  education system
• Mobility Recommendation and Action Plan

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Intergovernmental (Bologna)

• European Higher Education Area by 2010
• Three-step process covering several years
• Readability
• Comparability
• Compatibility

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Intergovernmental (Bologna)

• Salamanca - communication from universities
• European higher education institutions recognise
  that their students need and demand
  qualifications which they can use effectively for
  the purpose of their studies and careers all over
  Europe. The institutions and their networks and
  organisations acknowledge their role and
  responsibility in this regard, and confirm their
  willingness to organise themselves accordingly
  within the framework of autonomy.

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Intergovernmental (Bologna)

• Looming issues
• Transferability, particularly Bachelors ?
  Masters
• Quality assurance accreditation
• Institutionalization of the process
• Academic autonomy, European diversity

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Programmes (Socrates)

• Objectives underlying Erasmus 1987, and just as
  valid today
• Quality - learning from others
• Expand and multilateralize student mobility
• European Dimension
• Consolidated into Socrates 1996
• Institutionalization
• Virtual mobility

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Programmes (Socrates)

• Effects and good practice
• Institutional basis for student mobility
• Academic recognition of study abroad periods
• Establishment of support services for student
  mobility in the institutions
• Integrated policy at university level
• Multilateral forms of co-operation, networks

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Socrates/Erasmus - trends
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Socrates/Erasmus - trends
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Socrates/Erasmus - trends
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Socrates/Erasmus - trends
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Socrates/Erasmus - trends
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Programmes - Future

• Stimulation of mobility
• Mobility recommendation
• Bologna and transferability
• Strengthen curriculum development
• Working group summer 2001
• External evaluation late 2001
• Links to Thematic Networks
• Links to Bologna process

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Programmes - Future

• Structure of Institutional Contract
• Decentralisation of organisation of mobility
• Europe-wide debate
• Key issues
• European Dimension
• Institutional commitment
• Practicalities
• Evolution towards Socrates 3