Review article
https://doi.org/10.32909/kg.23.42.3
The European Higher Education Area, the European University Alliances: Chance for Inter- and Multidisciplinary University Programs, Chance for Cartography and Geoinformatics
László Zentai
orcid.org/0000-0002-6618-6798
; Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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Abstract
The political and economic changes in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s also affected higher education. In the last decades, the higher education systems of the individual countries have been transformed and standardised, but the political will to govern higher education was also necessary for the development of the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area. A new development in this field in the last decade has been the creation of European University Alliances. The aim of the European University Alliances was to strengthen cooperation between European higher education institutions and to promote the development of common European values and identities. In the longer term, the associations aim to develop a European university status that will allow for the joint delivery of courses and simplify the award of European diplomas.
Participation in joint university programmes can bring significant results for our field. Cartography and geoinformatics can be part of many inter- and multidisciplinary programmes and can contribute to the success of these courses. In this presentation I will review the joint programmes launched so far by some European University Alliances with a special focus on the contribution of our field.
Keywords
higher education; European Union; Bologna Process; cartography; geoinformatics
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Publication date:
31.12.2024.
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