EUROCADRES is the trade union voice of almost six million professionals and managers. It voice the interests of professionals and managers through social dialogue, advocacy and lobbying as well as through their networks, joint work with member organisations and cooperation with partners. More...

Founded in 1989, the EAIE is the European centre for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalisation of higher education. More...

BFUG Partner are organisations that wish to be associated with the Bologna Process/the BFUG but are not included in the Consultative member category.
Next to “members”, the Bologna Process also involves “consultative members” and “BFUG partners”.
The Bologna Follow-up Group at its meeting in Mondorf on 1-2 March 2005 established the category of “BFUG partner” for organisations that wish to be associated with the Bologna Process/the BFUG but do not meet the more demanding criteria for consultative membership. More...

EQAR is a non-voting member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group.
In most European countries, higher education institutions or study programmes are subject to regular external review by a quality assurance agency. The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) is a register of such agencies, listing those agencies that have demonstrated their substantial compliance with a common set of principles for quality assurance in Europe. More...

The European Association of Institutions in Higher Education - EURASHE - is a consultative member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group.
The European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) mission is to promote, within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), the interests of professional higher education and of relevant higher education institutions that are recognised or financed by the public authorities of a EHEA member country. More...

UNESCO is a consultative member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group.
Since its creation in 1945, UNESCO’s mission has been to contribute to the building of peace, poverty eradication, lasting development and intercultural dialogue, with education as one of its principal activities to achieve this aim. The Organization is committed to a holistic and humanistic vision of quality education worldwide, the realization of everyone’s right to education and the belief that education plays a fundamental role in human, social and economic development. More...

The Confederation of EU Rectors’ Conferences and Association of European Universities where invited by the European Union's Ministers to be part of the steering follow-up group of the Bologna Declaration (cf. work plan 1999-2001). They offered to jointly organise what became the Convention of European Higher Education Institutions, held in Salamanca, Spain, at the end of March 2001. This convention was also the opportunity for the formal constitution of the European University Association (EUA), a merger of the two organisations. More...

The European University Association is a consultative member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group.
The European University Association (EUA) is the representative organisation of universities and national rectors’ conferences in 47 European countries. EUA plays a crucial role in the Bologna Process and in influencing EU policies on higher education, research and innovation. Thanks to its interaction with a range of other European and international organisations EUA ensures that the independent voice of European universities is heard, wherever decisions are being taken that will impact on their activities. More...

The Peer Assessment of Student Centred Learning (PASCL) Project aims to assist in implementing sound student-centred learning (SCL) strategies and approaches at institutional level and to foster a culture of SCL in higher education institutions across Europe.
The PASCL project organized of a long series of annual events on Student-Centered Learning, which contributed to the necessary shift in bringing more visibility to the implementation of SCL and importance of the teaching mission of HEI in general. More...

ESU - Involvement in the Bologna Process

Since the beginning of the Bologna Process the National Unions of Students in Europe (ESIB) an then the European Students’ Union (ESU) has played a significant role in the conception and implementation of the Bologna Process goals.
In 2001, ESIB asserts in the Policy Paper "Student participation in the European Higher Education area" the necessity of involving students representatives as equal partners:

As co-operation on educational issues keeps increasing, so should the students’ influence on the process.[...] Student involvement is a key factor for the development of a diverse, high quality and democratic Higher Education.

In 2003, ESIB Policy Paper "New Challenges for a wider perspective on the future of the EHEA" focuses on the new challenges that HE is facing in the creation of a wider common European Higher Education Area. It is primarily concerned with promoting the student opinion of and within this process. It considers the present situation and offers a common student vision on the continuation of the process of creating this European Higher Education Area.

For 18 months up until April 2008, ESU was coordinating a major European Commission-funded campaign centred around the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).

Towards an European Qualifications Framework 2008

In 2008, with "Towards 2020 - A Student-Centred Bologna Process" ESU wants to make a contribution to the further development of the Bologna Process in a critical but constructive way and suggests concrete steps for progress on relevant topics.

In 2009-2010, the joint European Students' Union / Education International project "Time for a New Paradigm in Education: Student Centered Learning" (T4SCL) is based on the long-standing need to clarify and deepen the understanding of the academic community and policy makers' of the practical implications of the recent paradigm shift from teacher to student centered learning.

Student Centred Learning: An Insight into Theory and Practice

Survey Analysis Time For Student Centred Learning

At the European Student Summit in Vienna in March 2010, ESU presented its account of ten years of the Bologna Process.

ESU - Bologna at the Finish Line

In 2011, ESU makes a "Statement on Bologna Process towards 2012" and comes with a set of concrete proposals for the future of the Bologna Process and the functional establishment of a European Higher Education Area. More...