EHEA - Employability within the Bologna Process

Employability was and is one of the universal aspects that have been continuously worked on and developed.
Within the Bologna Process, employability results in strengthening the relevance of graduates' opportunities to start their professional life based on their higher education. The discussion is based on scientificness and transferability, i.e. on subject-specific and generic competences including individual processes through lifelong learning.

In 1999, the Bologna declaration defined as a goal of the Bologna Process:

to promote European citizens employability and the international competitiveness of the European higher education system.

The latest ministerial conference in 2015 reminded us that:

fostering the employability of graduates throughout their working lives in rapidly changing labour markets [...] is a major goal of the EHEA.

It is not only the European economy which depends on its “employable” citizens, but it is the European Higher Education Area that relies on them to create and defend general human and scientific values. More...