1. Education for Intercultural Dialogue and Understanding Bernd Wächter, Director, ACA THE EHEA in a Global Context

2. The Bologna Declaration: a big surprise at the time Pre-Bologna: the mantra of ‘diversity’ (the more heterogeneous, the better) National government as the guardians ‘diversity’ Bologna Declaration: national government demanding European harmonisation Why this change of mind and direction? The discovery of a global higher education market. Global roots of the EHEA

3. Bologna 1999-2005: external dimension low-key Astonishing: the first years of the EHEA (Bologna) concentrated on the ‘internal agenda’ An explicit ‘external dimension’ not deemed a necessity before 2005 (Bergen Ministerial Meeting) Up to Bergen: remarks about ‘Bologna and the wider world’ unsystematic and scattered Ambivalence between a competitive and a cooperative ‘external Bologna’ Paradoxically: high ‘visibility’ of the EHEA without external strategy

4. The Bergen Communiqué Ministers in Bergen demanded – development of an ‘external strategy of the EHEA’ –status report on interaction between EHEA and HE elsewhere in the world (Zgaga report) –organisation of three ‘official Bologna seminars’ on the external theme –creation of a working group to organise the above

5. The status report (Pavel Zgaga) Focus on ‘echos’ from around the world Tendency: high visibility and appreciation (paradoxical, since much of Bologna is import) Partly: the EHEA as a ‘role model’ around the world Eagerness of non-European countries to join the Bologna Process

6. The Strategy Identification of 5 “key policy areas”, i.e. –Correct and easily understandable information –Promotion and marketing of European (EHEA) higher education –Cooperation based on partnerships –Policy dialogue –Recognition of qualifications Overall: balanced mix between ‘competitive’, cooperative’ And ‘technical’ agenda.

7. Remaining business to concretise the strategy by means of practical action to define means of participation of non- EHEA countries (HEIs) in the Bologna Process Overall: to integrate the ‘external dimension’ into ‘Bologna 2020’

8. To finish off… Thank you for your kind attention.