European Doctoral Programs in Light of EHEA and ERA

Abstract

When fifteen years ago, in 1998, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Paris, four European ministers of education-Claude Allegre (France), Luigi Berlinguer (Italy), Tessa Blackstone (UK) and Jurgen Ruttgers (Germany)-agreed on what is by now known as the Sorbonne Declaration, perhaps a few believed in the political impact that this statement would have had.