The Glion Colloquia were begun in 1998 to bring together university leaders from Europe and North America to compare perspectives concerning the challenges and opportunities facing higher education. These meetings have usually been held in Glion, near Montreux, Switzerland, although the second meeting in 2000 was held in La Jolla, …
European Strategy to promote the Knowledge Society as a Source of renewed economic Dynamism and of social Cohesion (2006)
Since the l950s, Europe has been engaged in an ambitious political and eonomic integration process which received a new boost with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1999 and, soon afterwards, the collapse of the communist USSR. Twenty-five countries now make up the enlarged European Union, soon to be …
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE IN URGENT NEED OF CHANGE (2006)
In this contribution based on the opening address at the conference as vice-chair of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR),I want to focus upon what seems to me one, if not the, most important challenge for the future of European higher education and research, and hence for …