The meeting of representatives of Coimbra Group, IRUN, Europaeum and Utrecht Network member institutions will be divided into two sessions. Each session will be devoted to one of the two questions below and will consist of ten-minute speeches by each of the panelists, followed by a general discussion.
The questions – main issues we are planning to discuss:
1. What is the strength of European higher education? What do we have in common? Are there any common European values belonging to our higher education that could be seen as constituting the foundations of European Academia?
2. How to promote European higher education on a global scale, and compete with non-European universities? Should we offer our specific European higher education as something unique and valuable (even at the expense of our position in rankings), rather than accept universal-global standards and values and try to compete globally without contributing anything "specifically" European?