Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Public research funding streams and the perspective of system actors
Olivier Bégin-Caouette In the Europe of Knowledge, there are strong pressures on national governments to increase funding for research; one of Europe 2020’s headline indicators is to increase combined public and private investment in R&D to the equivalent of 3% of the GDP (see graph below). Beyond the amount of resources invested, it appears critical […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Universities and the production of elites
Roland Bloch and Alexander Mitterle Universities have become central crossing points in modern society. They coproduce the narratives of our time, ranging from politics over neurogenetics to climate change. Universities educate students for diverse roles in society: nurses, musicians, lawyers, physicists, managers, neuroscientists, and philosophers have all been credentialized by higher education systems. In recent […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Research Executive Agencies in Europe: Some Reflections
Que Anh Dang How might we understand the changing governance of scientific research at national, regional and supranational levels in Europe? What are the prevailing and conflicting political, economic, cultural and ideational discourses, discursive contexts and rationales for constituting and governing intermediary research executive agencies? How do they operate? What are the consequences/outcomes caused by […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Globalization and Change in Higher Education: Economic, Political, and Social Explanations
Beverly Barrett The internationalization of higher education is a response to the pressures of globalization. There are economic, political, and social explanations for the reforms that have taken place in Europe since the Bologna Process launched 18 years ago on June 19, 1999 in the historic university city of Bologna, Italy. Correspondingly, these explanations for […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on ECPR 2017 – continuing our focus on higher education, research and innovation
Hannah Moscovitz and Martina Vukasovic This year’s ECPR (European Consortium of Political Research) General Conference took place at the University of Oslo between September 6-9. The conference included hundreds of panels on a wide array of topics and representation from close to 2,000 academics from around the world. The […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Unbundling and reassembling knowledge production
Janja Komljenovic ‘Unbundling and reassembling knowledge production’ was the title of the panel that I have convened with Susan Robertson at the recent General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that this year took place in Oslo, 6-9 September; this panel was part of the section organized by the ECPR Standing Group […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Innovating regional ecosystems and modernizing professional higher education
Sandra Hasanefendic Fostering regional and innovation ecosystems through strengthening professional higher education and related research activities has been an imperative in recent years in Europe and globally. I have been personally involved both as a researcher, and expert adviser in understanding how and through which mechanisms can this be achieved. In recent years, I have […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on How do higher education institutions use internal quality assurance for quality improvement?
Michaela Martin and Christine Emeran A result of the rapid expansion and diversification of the higher education sector is that academic quality has come under greater scrutiny. The development of internal quality assurance (IQA) systems by higher education institutions (HEIs), as a means of monitoring and managing quality, constitutes one of the most important reform […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Making global education markets and trade
Janja Komljenovic and Susan L. Robertson How are education markets constructed? What is the global education industry? How is education becoming part of global trade in services? Who are the actors involved? What are the consequences and outcomes for the sector and for society at large? These are some of the key questions addressed in […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Knowledge policy coordination (International Conference on Public Policy 2017)
Martina Vukasovic The third edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) took place 28-30 June 2017, in Singapore, on the premises of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (following the 1st ICPP in Grenoble in 2013 and the 2nd ICPP in Milan in 2015). The conference included almost 150 thematic panels […]
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