EHEA Advisory Group on International Cooperation Holds a Meeting at Lobachevsky University

On October 14, 2016, the third meeting of the Advisory Group on International Cooperation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was held at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod. Two previous meetings of the Group were held in Paris (January 2016) and London (May 2016).

The meeting was attended by representatives of 15 European countries and such organisations as the European Commission, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European University Association and UNESCO. Russia was represented by  Alexander Grudzinskiy, Director of the UNN Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship, and Boris Zhelezov,  Deputy Director of the International Department of the RF Education Ministry.

The Advisory Group on International Cooperation of the EHEA makes part of the Bologna Follow-Up Group, an international body providing operational management of the Bologna Process. The main task of the Advisory Group on International Cooperation is to develop  policies and concrete activities for the interaction of the EHEA with the educational systems of other regions of the world, including the Mediterranean, North Africa, Asia, the United States, Canada and Latin America. The group will submit to the ministers of education of the EHEA member countries its internationalization proposals, which must be approved by the Ministerial Conference and the Bologna Forum in Paris in 2018. The Advisory Group consists of representatives of 15 EHEA member countries, as well as representatives of international organizations: the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European University Association, the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, the European Students' Union and some others. On behalf of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, the Russian Federation is represented in the Advisory Group by the Director of the Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship Alexander Grudzinskiy, who is also a member of the Working Group on the Bologna Process at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.