Bologna declaration

The Bologna Declaration ( " The European Higher Education Area. Joint Declaration of the European Ministers of Education, June 19, 1999 Bologna ") is a voluntary commitment to the creation of a common European Higher Education Area.

Sorbonne Declaration

1988 Magna Charta Universitatum Bologna was developed as a vision for the development of colleges and universities in Europe. This Charter have specified from the UK in Paris called the " Sorbonne Declaration " on a common European higher education policy on 25 May 1998, the Education Minister Luigi Berlinguer from Italy, Claude Allègre from France, Jürgen Rüttgers from Germany and Baroness Tessa Blackstone. The essential content of this " Sorbonne Declaration " is:

• Design a framework for teaching and learning in Europe, mobility and an ever closer cooperation allows
• Uniform recognition of studies in the context of "lifelong learning "
• A higher-level degree structure based on two stages: " undergraduate and graduate ,"
• The introduction of so-called " credit points " in the form of or similar to the ECTS schemes ( " European Credit Transfer and accumulation System").

The European counterpart Berlinguer, Allegre, Rüttgers and Blackstone was awarded in 2004 for services to the European education and research an honorary doctorate from the University of Roma Tre in Rome.

Bologna Declaration

Building on the visionary " Sorbonne Declaration " was the wider Bologna Declaration ( " The European Higher Education Area. Joint Declaration of the European Ministers of Education, June 19, 1999 Bologna " ) as a voluntary commitment, which the Minister of Education of original 29 states to create a European Higher Education Area have signed up to the year 2010. It forms the core of the so-called Bologna Process for the comparability of higher education in Europe, which now have connected 47 states.

To promote mobility and employability of European citizens and to strengthen the international competitiveness of European higher education system and the development of the European continent following measures should be implemented:

• The introduction of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees (including the Diploma Supplement )
• The introduction of a two tier system of academic degrees ( undergraduate / graduate )
• The introduction of a credit system (similar to the ECTS model )
• Promoting the mobility of students and teachers
• The promotion of European cooperation in quality assurance, as well as
• The promotion of the European dimension in higher education.

Furthermore, the cooperation at government level and with European non-governmental organizations in the field of higher education has been decided. A further meeting at the latest within two years was agreed to assess the progress made thus far and then to be taken.

At the Bologna Declaration build the Prague Communiqué (2001), the Berlin Communiqué (2003), the Bergen Communiqué (2005) and the London Communiqué (2007) on. The next of the total so-called "Bologna conferences " took place in 2009 in Leuven.

The Bologna Declaration was signed by Ministers of Education from the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation (2003), Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, United Kingdom.