Russia and the Bologna Process: 20 Years Later

... most ambitious international education project in the history of humankind had begun. Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus! Andrey Kortunov: A New Model of International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities The news of the launch of the Bologna Process produced a surge of enthusiasm in Russia’s pro-Western circles. Primarily because the process itself was not formally tied to its participants’ membership in the European Union. Certainly, EU member states were the main masterminds and architects of the European educational integration project, but all the countries on the continent were invited to join its implementation, including those which, at the time, could ...