What is the EHEA?
In June 1999, the Ministers of higher education of 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration, which lays down the fundamental principles in order to create the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The EHEA mobilises a change in teaching methods which focus on the student’s learning process and it promotes improvement in the quality and international competitiveness of higher education in Europe, so that European university degrees may increase in mobility and recognition. With a view to creating skilled and competent professionals, a programme or degree in the new EHEA framework is not only defined according to a prescriptive list of core, optional and free-elective subjects that have to be studied. Now the degree is established as an education project of the university that proposes it. There are currently 46 European states participating in the EHEA. Apart from EU member states, these also include countries from the European Free Trade Association and countries from East
