Sorbonne Declaration

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The Bologna Declaration ("The European Higher Education Area. Joint Declaration by the European Education Ministers, June 19, 1999 , Bologna ") is a voluntary commitment to create a common European Higher Education Area .

Sorbonne Declaration

In 1988 the Magna Charta Universitatum of Bologna was developed as a vision for the development of colleges and universities in Europe. This charter was specified by the education ministers Luigi Berlinguer from Italy, Claude Allègre from France, Jürgen Rüttgers from Germany and Baroness Tessa Blackstone from Great Britain in Paris, the so-called "Sorbonne Declaration" on a common European university policy on May 25, 1998 . The main content of this "Sorbonne Declaration" is:

  • Creating a framework for teaching and learning in Europe that enables mobility and ever closer collaboration,
  • Uniform recognition of academic achievements against the background of " lifelong learning ",
  • a higher-level study system with two levels: " undergraduate " and " graduate ",
  • the introduction of so-called “credit points” in the form of or similar to the ECTS scheme (“European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System”).

The European counterparts Berlinguer, Allegre, Rüttgers and Blackstone were awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Roma Tre in Rome in 2004 for their services to European education and research .

Bologna Declaration

Building on the visionary “Sorbonne Declaration”, the more comprehensive Bologna Declaration (“The European Higher Education Area. Joint Declaration of the European Education Ministers, June 19, 1999 , Bologna ”) was made as a voluntary commitment that the education ministers of originally 29 countries set out to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010 . It forms the core of the so-called Bologna Process for the comparability of higher education in Europe , which 49 countries have now joined.

The following measures are to be implemented to promote mobility and job market-related qualifications for European citizens as well as to strengthen the international competitiveness of the European higher education system and to develop the European continent:

  • the introduction of a system of easily understandable and comparable degrees (including diploma supplement )
  • the introduction of a two-tier system of degrees (undergraduate / graduate)
  • the introduction of a credit  system (similar to the ECTS model)
  • promoting the mobility of students and teachers
  • promoting European cooperation in quality assurance , as well as
  • promoting the European dimension in higher education.

Furthermore, cooperation at government level and with European non-governmental organizations in the field of universities was decided. A new meeting within two years at the latest was agreed to assess the progress made and the measures to be taken.

The Prague Communiqué ( 2001 ), the Berlin Communiqué ( 2003 ), the Bergen Communiqué ( 2005 ) and the London Communiqué ( 2007 ) build on the Bologna Declaration . The next of the so-called “Bologna Conferences” took place in 2009 in Leuven .

The Bologna Declaration was signed by the Education Ministers of the following countries: Belgium , Bulgaria , Denmark , Germany , Estonia , Finland , France , Greece , Ireland , Iceland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russian Federation (2003), Slovenia , Slovakia , Sweden , Spain , Switzerland , Czech Republic , Hungary , United Kingdom .

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