Bologna Process: Friend or foe? Experience between change and tradition

摘要

The European Bologna Process has been causing the most comprehensive change in the GermanrnHigher Education System since the reforms by Wilhelm von Humboldt 200 years ago. The starting point forrnthis development was the Bologna Declaration in 1999, by which 29 European countries committed themselvesrnto create a common European Higher Education Area. Until the year 2010 German universities had to put inrnaction, what the politics agreed on paper. The classical German civil engineering education leading to the degreernDiplom-Ingenieur had to be replaced by the new bachelor and master study courses. The difficulty was to modifyrnthe structure of the study courses without losing the quality and the reputation of the degree Diplom-Ingenieur,rnwhich is well known all over the world. And also money plays a major role. Bologna is an austerity program,rnwhich the politics want to make seem as a growth program.