10 pilot projects selected: European joint degree label and legal status
On 31 January, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, launched 10 Erasmus+ projects to test new forms of transnational cooperation between higher education institutions, as outlined in the European strategy for universities one year ago.
Six of the selected projects will examine, test and facilitate the delivery of a joint European Degree label, a complementary certificate to the qualification of students graduating from joint programmes delivered in the context of transnational cooperation between several higher education institutions, based on a common set of co-created European criteria. The other four projects will allow alliances of higher education institutions, such as ‘the European Universities', to test new forms of cooperation, such as a possible European legal status for these alliances.
The proposals for a joint European Degree and European legal status were criticised when first launched in the European strategy for universities, for going beyond the complementary competence of the European Union in the area of education, and for not sufficiently taking into account the existing tools developed under the Bologna process.
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