Zahra Jafarova In the shifting landscape of European higher education, neoliberal reforms used to be celebrated as tools for financial efficiency and institutional autonomy. But how does such a market-oriented framework function when it is instrumentalized by a regime drifting away from democracy towards authoritarianism? In Hungary, the transformation of the university system stands out […]
Alina Felder-Stindt The European Union’s ambition to become a knowledge-based economy has transformed the role of higher education institutions (HEIs). My new book, The Territorial Dimension of EU Knowledge Policies: Higher Education Institutions for Europe (Routledge, 2025), explores how universities are not only shaped by European integration but also actively shape it, particularly through their […]
By Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Julie Smith (Cambridge University, UK) and Ed Turner (Aston University, UK) As we discuss in our recent article in the Journal of Common Market Studies, a proposed youth mobility scheme between the European Union and the United Kingdom ought to have been an easy win. After all, […]
Alina Felder-Stindt and Martina Vukasovic In the ever-evolving landscape of European higher education, the European Universities Initiative (EUI) stands out as a flagship project that emerged with surprising speed and ambition. But how does such a major initiative take shape in an area where the European Union (EU) has only limited formal competence and an […]
Manfred Stock, Alexander Mitterle and David P. Baker What do universities teach us? A common trope in public discourse today is that the university serves as an ideological hub: a place that infuses the minds of the new generations with ideas that threaten contemporary worldviews. In such discussions, the sweeping impact higher education has on […]
Facilitated by the freedom of movement within the European Union (EU), the Erasmus programme established in 1987, and the Bologna Process initiated in 1999, physical intra-European student mobility has become a taken-for-granted aspect of higher education.
In March, I decided to apply for a UACES Microgrant to receive funding to attend the 12th Biannual Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, which took place between June 19th and 21st, 2024, in Lisbon at the Universidade NOVA. The SGEU Biannual Conference, a significant event for those working in […]
We recently welcomed Ana Bojinović Fenko to eu!radio! She is a professor of international relations at the University of Ljubljana. She reflected on her country's accession to the EU 20 years ago in a personal testimony.
If you are a PhD candidate, you might have heard at some point that it would be good for you to attend an academic conference. Well, I would say that you must! As a final year PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University of Kent, I have attended international conferences since 2021, the second […]
We recently welcomed Petr Kaniok to eu!radio! He is a professor of political science at the Masaryk University of Brno, Czechia. He shared both his personal testimony and his analysis as a professor about his country becoming a member of the European Union, twenty years ago.
