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EUA Seminar on Higher Education and Research in South East Europe Print Email this page

"Strengthening Higher Education in South East Europe: Priorities for Regional and European Cooperation"

University of Vienna, Austria
2-3 March 2006

In the framework of the Austrian EU Presidency 2006, EUA organised in partnership with the University of Vienna, the thematic seminar "Strengthening Higher Education and Research in South East Europe: Priorities for Regional and European Cooperation".

The seminar gathered university leaders and other institutional representatives from South East Europe, in particular institutions in the Western Balkans and neighbouring EU accession countries, to outline key points for an action agenda to strengthen higher education and research in the region, and to ensure full integration in European cooperation structures.  

The seminar focused on the following three themes:

• Research and Innovation
• The Bologna Process
• Institutional Reform and Development

The outcomes of the meeting were presented to the European Education Ministerial Conference on 16-17 March 2006 in Vienna:

• Conclusions and Recommendations

Presentations during the Seminar:

• Priorities for Regional and European Cooperation
  Presentation by Michael Daxner, President Emeritus and Professor of Sociology, Counsellor to the Austrian Ministry of Education

Background information on the content of the Seminar:

• Seminar Programme
• EUA Institutional Evaluation of Seven Universities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Cross Cutting Summary Report
• Southeast European Era-Net website
  Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area in Southeast Europe
• Novi Sad Initiative
  Adressing Questions of Governance in Creating the European Higher Education Area
• European Commission Communiqué on Western Balkans - 27 January 2006
  The Western Balkans on the road to the EU: consolidating stability and raising prosperity

Additional questions should be directed to Violeta Atanassova.