Qui pilote le processus de Bologne ?

Abstract

Initially the Bologna process was run only by member states. Since 2001, it has included the representatives of student unions, universities, colleges, the European Council and Commission. These now partner institutions had to find common ground on traditionally divisive questions, which contributed to change their relations on national scenes. The European Commission, which originally had sovereignty of member states, now tends to exert control over it. The author argues that the Bologna process opens a space of cooperation-competition and assumes that the Commission became part of the institutions running the process because it was in a position to provide guidance to member states' universities in the whole range of their strategies and make them interdependent within a European space of higher education they are driven to promote, albeit in words only.