Esna Media

The European Universities Initiative, a new EU funding programme for university networks, supports experimental models of collaboration across borders. We have François Taddei, in Paris, on the line. Monsieur Taddei is an educator, a teacher, he has co-founded a research and learning centre in Paris called CRI, which holds an UNESCO chair for “learning science”. He is also a counselor for one of the new European university networks. Our questions are: • What is this EUI about? • Is this initiative a continuation of the Bologna Process? Another push for more academic mobility? • What makes this different from other EU higher education funding policies? • The EU call is all about 'internationalisation' and 'innovation' - how can that ever lead to pedagogic experimentation or student participation? • Was this the idea at the Sorbonne in 2017, when the French president Emanuel Macron first proposed to build university networks? • The first 17 university networks have been chosen in July 2019, the second call w