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Multi-level governance in higher education – When and how can reflective practice enhance policy learning?

Adrienn Nyircsak Higher education is increasingly transformed through internationalisation and Europeanisation. One of the drivers of this change is the emergence of transnational stakeholder communities who channel local experiences with policy implementation into policy-making through peer exchange.  My doctoral dissertation focused on the dynamic interaction between different levels of policy-making and the specific institutional and Multi-level governance in higher education – When and how can reflective practice enhance policy learning?

Explaining Research Activities of International Organizations

Anke Reinhardt International governmental organizations are not, at least not primarily, research organizations. There are exceptions: For example, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) were both created to conduct research. But the vast majority of international organizations have other functions: facilitating international cooperation, regulating international Explaining Research Activities of International Organizations

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Comparative Higher Education Politics. Policymaking in North America and Western Europe Jens Jungblut Several people have argued in recent years that higher education has become a more important policy sector in most if not all countries around the world (see e.g. Busemeyer, Garritzmann, & Neimanns, 2020; Garritzmann, 2016; Gornitzka & Maassen, 2014). An increasing percentage

The Role of Inclusion in Macro‐Regional Policies for Student Mobility

By Alina Felder & Merli Tamtik Even though barrier‐free access to student mobility has become a significant policy problem for governments (Cairns, 2019), issues of social justice have been largely absent from institutional strategies of higher education (HE) internationalisation (Buckner et al., 2020a; Özturgut 2017). With our research we contribute to this aspect, offering a The Role of Inclusion in Macro‐Regional Policies for Student Mobility

ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies 2023

The 2023 edition of the General Conference of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) took place in Prague, 4-8 September. The section of our ECPR Standing Group Knowledge Politics and Policies included nine panels on politics and policy of academic mobility and diplomacy, universities, higher and vocational education, research, and Artificial Intelligence. This year our ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies 2023

ECPR General Conference, Prague, 4-8 September 2023 – Knowledge Politics and Policies SG

The ECPR General Conference in Prague is approaching and we wanted to give you an overview of the week 4-8 September from the point of view of the Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group Panels in our Section This year we have nine panels and they are all happening in the first half of the ECPR General Conference, Prague, 4-8 September 2023 – Knowledge Politics and Policies SG

Politics of EU research funding

Inga Ulnicane EU research policy has experienced tremendous growth in terms of increase in the EU-level competences, funds, initiatives and policy instruments. While today EU research policy is taken for granted, in the early days of European political integration in the 1950s its establishment was far from obvious. Initial treaties did not envisage European level Politics of EU research funding