Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities: The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions, c. 1980–1995

In this seminar, the Europeanisation of the universities will be discussed in a comparative setting. During a formative period in the 1980s and the 1990s, a new area of higher education and research policy was established and consolidated in Europe. The panellists will highlight this transformation by directing the analytical lens at four different universities geographically located across the European continent and shaped by different political traditions, academic systems, historical experiences, and relations to the processes of European integration. The panellists will analyse the processes of Europeanisation at these individual universities: Ghent University, Lund University, University of Valladolid and Aalborg University.