European Universities Initiative – a Policy of Scientific Cooperation on the Basis of Transform4Europe and The 4EU+ Alliance

• Authors: Kacper Mateusz Skalmierski , Zuzanna Czernicka

Abstracts

EN

The motivation for the analysis is the European Year of Skills 2023 announced by the European Commission. The mian purpose of the article is to show the problems of the contemporary functioning of European science cooperation policy. Knowledge in a broad sense, including scientific and expert knowledge, is increasingly important in the process of political decision-making. The article presents the evolution of the approach and spread of the European Uniosą activity in the internal and external dimensions of its science policy. The authors analyzed the operational tools of European Union’s (EU) scientific cooperation, which include the European Universities Initiative, Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programs. The following research methods were used to achieve this goal: case studies, statistical analysis and analysis of sources such as policy documents, normative acts, university rankings, available scientific literature and Internet sources. The subjects of the study are "European universities" – members of alliances: Transform4Europe and The 4 EU+ Alliance, subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Keywords

EN

science policy; European scientific cooperation; European Universities Initiative; European integration

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski. Wydział Nauk Społecznych
• Journal: Political Preferences
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 47-64

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Kacper Mateusz Skalmierski

• University of Silesia in Katowice

• https://orcid.org/0009000834918836

author

Zuzanna Czernicka

• University of Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000000218864793

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/polpre.2023.1.47-64

Biblioteka Nauki

20698267