Full Description
This book examines the European Universities Initiative from multiple angles and comparative studies.
It outlines the scope and potential of this initiative, and the different epistemological and methodological approaches which can be adopted to investigate it in the light of previous research on Europeanisation, on the internationalisation of higher education, and on the construction of European identities through everyday practices. With this, it presents the concept of "Euro-internationalisation" to understand the factors which brought the initiative into being. Bringing together contributions from all over Europe, involved in several of the first European University Alliances, the book helps to foster a better understanding of the evolution of Higher Education in Europe.
The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of higher education policy and governance, European Policy, European integration and more broadly to international relations, globalisation and the sociology of education.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Part 1: Euro-Internationalisation in Higher Education: From institutional context to pedagogical impact 1. The European Universities Initiative as an object of scientific study in the context of "Euro-internationalisation" 2. Europeanisation as an opportunity structure for higher education 3. Bridging the gap between policy and practice: The individual perspective on internationalisation as a part of curriculum development 4. The development of intercultural competence through internationalisation at home: The case of Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes within European University Alliances Part 2: The European Universities Initiative as a vector of Euro-internationalisation 5. From the 'European university' to the Europeanisation of universities in Europe: E pluribus multum 6. A Theoretical and Methodological Approach to the European Universities Initiative: Critical Cosmopolitanism 7. Sketching out the contours of the vision of European higher education advanced by the European Universities Initiative 8. Mechanisms of Alliance Formation across the European Universities Initiative: Collaborative Preference 9. Future perspectives for European Universities: The challenges of implementing a governance model for the European Universities Initiative 10. The impact of the European Universities Initiative on non-academic university employees in Poland: Coming out of the shadows 11. Where next? Mapping future directions and perspectives for EUI-related research
