The Emergence and Institutionalisation of the European Higher Education and Research Area
The Emergence and Institutionalisation of the European Higher Education and Research Area
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欧洲高等教育和研究领域的出现和制度化
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2008
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Eric Beerkens
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Eric Beerkens
In the 50 years of European integration, rules, regulations and policies wereformulated to facilitate flows of products and people;those who benefited from theincreasing transnational exchange urged European actors to remove remainingobstacles and further facilitate European trade and mobility. This dynamic ispresent in nearly all policy domains where there is a significant level of transna-tional activity. In the field of higher education and research, this transnationalactivity has increased in the last decades and has led — as I will argue in this article— to the emergence of European rules, a strengthening of European institutionsand the development of a European higher education and research community.This article will approach Europeanisation as the emergence of a new layer ofgovernance,a layer with a wide range of interacting actors.The question addressedhere is: to what extent has a European higher education and research area(EHERA) emerged and through what mechanisms is it being sustained? Thediscussion of research in the European context will mainly be limited to thoseactivities that show a direct link with higher education institutions, not the privateR&D sector. First, the extent to which this area has emerged will be analysed, andsecondly, the mechanisms that have driven the institutionalisation of the EHERAwill be studied. Before that, however, I will introduce the approaches andperspectives through which I will examine the process of institutionalisation at theEuropean level.