On 29-30 May 2024, ministerial delegations from 48 countries held a regular conference of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). At this meeting, the list of six EHEA fundamental values was restated and ministers adopted statements with shared definitions for five of them: academic integrity, institutional autonomy, student and staff participation in higher education governance, and public responsibility for and of higher education. Ministers reiterated their commitments to protect and promote these values as jointly defined in their national systems and endorsed the proposal for a pan-European framework for monitoring the implementation of these commitments.
This proposal was developed by a team led by Liviu Matei, Head of the School of Education, Communication and Society. Prof. Matei also contributed to drafting the joint statements on the fundamental values.