Permanent uncertainty as normality? Finnish-Russian double degrees in the post-Crimea world
Journal: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
Year: 2018

EU-Russia higher education cooperation has continued despite global tensions including Crimea incorporation. One example of this cooperation is the development of Finnish-Russian double degree programmes.This paper focuses on institutional environments where double degrees develop and asks how and why they produce uncertainty from inside Finnish and Russian universities in the period of this unfavourable political situation. The matryoshka model is applied to understand the institutional environ