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In 1998, the ministers responsible for higher education in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom met in Paris to celebrate the University of Paris’s 800th anniversary. At the meeting, they signed the “Joint declaration on the harmonization of the architecture of the European higher education system” (Sorbonne Declaration). The document envisioned the creation of a European area of higher education with a harmonized framework of degrees and study cycles that would improve external recognition and facilitate student mobility and employability. Although there is a long history behind initiatives for joint actions in European higher education, as well as for measures taken by the European Community (Shaw, 1999; Corbett, 2005), the Sorbonne Declaration gained much public attention and gave birth, in 1999, to a Ministerial Conference in Bologna that marked the beginning of intensive higher education reform activities all over Europe (i.e., the Bologna Process).
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Hackl, E. (2012). Reconceptualizing Public Responsibility and Public Good in The European Higher Education Area. In: Schuetze, H.G., Mendiola, G.Á., Conrad, D. (eds) State and Market in Higher Education Reforms. Comparative and International Education, vol 13. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-800-1_9
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