On the 11th of March 2010 the education ministers of 46 countries want to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Bologna accords in Vienna. Students across Europe protest against this meeting and are organizing an alternative summit. Further actions involve demonstrations and blockades in the streets of Vienna.
For more information, see the official website of the alternative summit: http://bolognaburns.org/en.
For more information on the movements in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, see: http://unsereuni.at, http://www.unsereuni.de/ and http://www.unsereuni.ch/.
Since last autumn, European students have been protesting against underfunding and corporatization of universities. Several statements of support have been formulated by researchers and teachers all over Europe, i.e.:
- Erklärung der Lehrenden und Forschenden von Schweizerischen Universitäten, 20. November 2009
Forthcomming: Brussels Spring Alternative Summit 25 March 2010 "For Another Europe of Knowledge" (European Parliament, Brussels) by "Collectif Printemps 2010" (for details, see the call here)
The Shanghai-Ranking is Not Scientific
In an Article in the Journal La Recherche (N°430 - 05/2009) Yves Gringas discusses the epistemological foundations of the predominance of global university rankings, implemented a few years ago by the university of Shanghai. Departing from the finding that existing...
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The Project ESSE completed
The Project ESSE – For a European Research Space in Social Sciences has been completed.
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