1. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 1 VIPSI-2009 Belgrade Gyula Mester THE LISBON STRATEGY 2000 IN HIGHER EDUCATION OF EUROPE The conclusions of the European Council (Lisbon, March 2000) are well-known. They state the following: “Europe should become, by 2010, the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion“. The aim is to increase our universities’ contribution to the Lisbon Agenda for more growth, and more and better jobs. Europe has around 4000 higher education institutions, with over 17 million students and 1.5 million staff. All across Europe, countries and universities are in a process of modernization. From an EU perspective, these reforms are part of the Lisbon Strategy. OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENT SITUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION According to the publication of the well known institution "Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University” the rank list of the top 20 Universiti- es in the world space of higher education in 2008 appears in the following way: http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/en2008.htm

2. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 2 VIPSI-2009 Belgrade Table 1. Shanghai world rank list of the top 20 universities in 2008 According to the latest edition of the Web Ranking of World Universities published by the Spanish National Research Council's Cybermetrics Lab the rank list of the top 15 universities in the world space of higher education in January 2009 looks as follows:Web Ranking of World Universities

3. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 3 VIPSI-2009 Belgrade Table 2. Web Ranking of World Universities of the top 15 universities in 2009Web Ranking of World Universities UB 389

4. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 4 VIPSI-2009 Belgrade According to the latest edition of the: 2008 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities published by: Higher Education & Accreditation Council of Taiwan the rank list of the top 8 universities in the world space of higher education in January 2009 was the following: http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw Table 3. Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities in 2008

5. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 5 VIPSI-2009 Belgrade WILL WE REALISE THE AIMS OF THE LISBON STRATEGY 2000 IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE On the basis of the performed analysis I think that we do not have enough time to achieve the goals of the Lisbon Declaration in the European Higher Education Area by the year 2010. PROPOSAL I propose the adoption of a new (Lisbon) strategy in the European Higher Education Area in the year 2010.