How to foster an inclusive, innovative and interconnected European Higher Education Area by 2030: BWSE FOR2030 policy recommendations

The consortium of the Erasmus+ project “Bologna with Stakeholders Eyes for an Innovative, Inclusive and Interconnected European Higher Education Area by 2030 (BWSE FOR2030)”, in which EUA is a partner, issued Policy Recommendations to address challenges and recommendations related to the inclusiveness, innovativeness and interconnectedness of the EHEA.

The project took as its overall goal to bring together stakeholders from all relevant levels (institutional, national and European) to analyse what concrete steps are needed so that the EHEA can become more inclusive, innovative and interconnected. Through peer exchange, dialogue and sharing of best-practice examples, it identified key challenges in these areas and developed recommendations on how to tackle them. The recommendations aim to inspire European and national-level policy makers, staff of higher education institutions in leadership positions as well as students to take action, implement policies and advocate and design policies that will enable the EHEA to realise the vision outlined in the Rome Communiqué.

The BWSE FOR2030 project is coordinated by the European Students Union (ESU), in partnership with the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the European University Association (EUA), the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE). The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) is an associate partner.