What is the origin of the European Area of Higher Education and when will it be implemented?
The original idea behind the European Area of Higher Education stems from the 1998 Declaration of Sorbonne, which was a document signed by Ministers of Education from France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. After the first draft of the declaration, these questions were addressed more fully in 1999, namely in the Joint Declaration of European Ministers of Education, which is otherwise known as the Declaration of Bologna. In this document, the key strategic lines of development are established. Moreover the parties that signed the declaration made a petition for European University Cooperation in order to achieve the objectives. Two years later, in May 2001, the European Ministers of Education who met in Bologna, convened in Prague to elaborate a document that set out key areas of the reform. An important outcome of this meeting was the document entitled “Towards a European Area of Higher Education” (text in English), which describes the characteristics of the future European Are
