The European Commission has chosen the groups of universities that will explore whether the bloc should create a label for joint degrees and a dedicated legal structure for cross-border institutions.
The 10 projects involve 90 higher education institutions and 17 ministries, with all European Union countries, Norway, Turkey, Switzerland and the UK represented. Each group has a year and up to €200,000 (£176,000) to either flesh out common criteria that joint programmes should meet to merit a “European degree” label, or to find out whether the bloc needs a new type of legal entity for universities to work together across borders.
“The commission will work closely together with the selected projects to explore and examine, hand in hand with the higher education stakeholders and national authorities, ways to make transnational cooperation easier,” said the EU education commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, in announcing the funding.
