Society, policy makers and the mediaA view from inside

Ligia Deca

Researcher, University of Luxembourg

Policy officer, UEFISCDI Romania

Personal experience 2005-2008: National student representative/

coordinator of an anti-corruption in HE NGO coalition;

2008-2010: Chairperson of th European Students’ Union (ESU);

2010-2012: Head of the Bologna Process Secretariat;

2012-onwards: working as a policy officer for UEFISCDI;

2014 – member in the Science in Education Expert Group (SEEG) set up by the European Commission.

How to get things on the political agenda? Kingdon – policy streams model:

Problem stream; Solution stream; Political stream.

Frames Policy windows

Agenda (public, media, policy ->Decision)

Transferring knowledge into policy

Student centered learning

Started as a new frame needed for ESU policies; ESU – Education International project (T4SCL); Defined in the Leuven/ Louvain la Neuve Bologna

Process Communique (2009); Fastest political concept: inserted in the ESG,

focus in various EU documents; Why?

Mobility – 20% by 2020 EHEA graduates

Launched as a catchy one-liner in the ERASMUS programme XX anniv (2007);

EHEA target in 2009 (ESU-EC coalition); EU target in 2011; EHEA Strategy to reach it (2012); Prompted a number of countries to develop

internationalisation/ mobility strategies; Start of more EHEA political targets?

Social Dimension

Introduced in 2001 by ESU in the BP; Defined clearly only in 2007; 2009 – more concrete requirements

(defined national targets and strategies + European level monitoring);

EU2020 focus – 40% HE attainment by 2020 for the 30-34 year old cohort;

Concrete progress?

Thank you!And I hope this helps…