Globalizing Higher Education and Strengthening the European Spirit: How the Bologna Reform Has Changed Our World

The so-called Bologna process has harmonized European higher education systems and, at the same time, deeply changed concepts about what the core of Europeanness is. This book discusses various aspects of this transformative and influential ＂soft policy＂ process.

Christiane Dienel is a social scientist and director of Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management. After a PhD about French-German Relations, she held a chair for European Policy and Society and subsequently became deputy Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. From 2011-2016, she was president of Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences.