1st Edition

The European Universities Initiative and the ‘Euro-internationalisation’ of European Higher Education

Edited By Alexander Frame, Barbara Curyło Copyright 2025
220 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the European Universities Initiative from multiple angles and comparative studies. It outlines the scope and potential of this initiative, and the different epistemological and methodological approaches which can be adopted to investigate it in the light of previous research on Europeanisation, on the internationalisation of higher education, and on the construction of... Read more

Part 1: Euro-Internationalisation in Higher Education: From institutional context to pedagogical impact

1. The European Universities Initiative as an object of scientific study in the context of “Euro-internationalisation”

Alexander Frame, Barbara Curyło and Romée Jager

2. Europeanisation as an opportunity structure for higher education

Krzysztof Zuba

3. Bridging the gap between policy and practice: The individual perspective on internationalisation as a part of curriculum development

Lotta Kokkonen, Teija Natri and Juhani Moisio

4. The development of intercultural competence through internationalisation at home: The case of Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes within European University Alliances

Romée Jager

Part 2: The European Universities Initiative as a vector of Euro-internationalisation

5. From the ‘European university’ to the Europeanisation of universities in Europe: E pluribus multum?

Stefan Gänzle and Rómulo Pinheiro

6. Critical Cosmopolitanism as A Theoretical and Methodological Approach to the EUI

Almudena González del Valle-Brena, María-Jesús Díaz-González and María-José Ferrari

7. Sketching out the contours of the vision of European higher education advanced by the European Universities Initiative

Nadia Manzoni

8. Mechanisms of Alliance Formation across the European Universities Initiative

Agata A. Lambrechts

9. Future perspectives for European Universities: The challenges of implementing a governance model for the European Universities Initiative

Manuel José Damásio, Barry Dignam, Veerle Van der Sluys and Sophie Quin

10. The impact of the European Universities Initiative (EUI) on non-academic university employees in Poland

Dominik Antonowicz, Marta Jaworska and Rafał Muster

11. Where next? Mapping future directions and perspectives for EUI-related research

Barbara Curyło and Alexander Frame

Biography

Alexander Frame is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.

Barbara Curyło is Assistant Professor of Political Science at at the University of Opole, Poland.