EURASHE Annual Conferences

Our annual conferences greatly contribute to the professional development of our member institutions, and are therefore vitally important for European Professional Higher Education. A EURASHE conference attracts a diversity of delegates – heads of institutions, HE practitioners, policy-makers, academics and students – from the education community across Europe and beyond its borders. It is recognized as a communication platform for education experts and professionals, and is characterised by its innovating and stimulating approach. The following list of conference themes demonstrates the wide scope and at the same time the targeted focus on issues that are relevant for professional HE.

2012: Riga – Responding to challenges for European higher education: Lifelong learning and the Welfare Society

2011: Nice – Examine Expanding Field of Professionally Oriented Programmes in Higher Education

2010:  Tallinn – Implementing Bologna: Turning rhetoric into reality. Special conference track: The Social Dimension aspect in the higher education reform process: Research findings about Equitable Access to Higher Education

2009:  Prague – Higher education, Enterprises and Regions: Partnerships for Innovation and Development throughout Europe

2008:  Malta - Qualifications in a Quality Assurance Culture: moving Bologna and Copenhagen towards a lifelong and Europe-wide response to employability

2007:  Copenhagen – “Research and Innovation &The Social Dimension of HE” Towards a broader interpretation

2006:  Dubrovnik – The Dynamics of University Colleges in the EHEA: “Opening up Higher Education through links with LLL and Vocational Education and Training (VET) and New Masters in Higher Education”

2005:  Vilnius – University Colleges in the Bologna Process: quality culture and applied research

2004:  Nicosia – Networking in the Open European Higher Education Area

2003:  Gyöngyös – After Graz / Before Berlin: ‘The Assets of the Bologna Process for Professional Higher Education

2002:  Galway – Towards Coherence in Europe on Higher Education

2001:  Viseu – After Bologna / Prague: Recent Developments in European Higher Education

2000:  Chania – Higher Education in the 21st Century, Challenges and Potentials

1999:  Vienna – Quality Assurance in Higher Education

1998:  Budapest – Changing Relations between Government and Higher Education in terms of Autonomy, Quality and Finance

1997:  Galway – Quality Assurance in Higher Education

1996:  Cyprus – Innovation in European Higher Education

1995:  Bruges – Education and Economic Life: Living Apart or Together?

1994:  Dublin – Accessing Academic Partnership in Europe

1993:  Copenhagen – Higher Education in Europe after Maastricht

1992:  Portsmouth – Credit Transfer and European Collaboration

1991:  Setúbal – Role of Higher Education in the Development of Human Resources

1990:  Patras – The First EURASHE Annual Conference