The Future of Fundamental Values in the EHEA: The Russian War on Ukraine and Re-Thinking Safeguards Against Non-Democracies
Year: 2024

Abstract The concept of the fundamental values of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)–academic freedom, academic integrity, institutional autonomy, participation of students and staff in higher education governance, and public responsibility for and of higher education–received little attention and was taken for granted during the first decade of the Bologna Process, even if some of the values were addressed independently of each other before the concept was formally introduced. This chapt