Projet HESPRI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The current world of higher education (HE) has been shaped by two forces: the humanistic traditions of university governance and the neo-liberal reforms of the past thirty years. With its successes and discontents, this hybrid system faces major crises that affect its ability to respond to the needs of society: the tension between traditional and neo-liberal academic values; the biased evaluation and assessment of quality in higher education; the ineffectiveness determined by the distorted measurements of scientific achievements and other factors; the recent digital transformations of the universities facing the pandemic. To face these challenges, HESPRI addresses innovative strategies to strengthen public policies and improve the competitiveness of the HE sector. Specific objectives and originalities, and a well-designed R&I work plan (4 scientific WPs and 2 support WPs) are proposed for achieving this main goal: comparing a range of national HE systems worldwide as a function of cultural practices, for revealing tensions between various categories of values, shaped by global tendencies; exploring, defining and comparing quality in HE in different contexts, in order to provide innovative and advanced methodology; bringing the collective voice of science into the policymaking process in HE, by looking at how disciplinary and national differences affect governance; analysing technology-enhanced higher education environments, beyond the state of the art, around three pillars - digitalisation, metaverse and open science, on specific emerging research topics. Relying on a world-class and culturally diverse consortium, HESPRI aims to provide evidence-based recommendations for governments, policymakers and universities, to adjust various components in trend with recent provocations. The project proposal incorporates global digitalisation trends, and is tightly connected with world-wide and European strategies and programmes, such as the UN global policies of SDGs.

Mots clés : higher education he policy, policy analysis, evaluation and assessment in he, he governance and interdisciplinarity, digital innovation in he and transfer to society, piloting

Participants :
- The public authority for applied education and training (Koweït) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Romanian-American University (Rép. Moldave) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 216200.0 €
- Université Alexandre-Jean-Cuza de Iași (Roumanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 179400.0 €
- Université Dōshisha (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Okayama (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Justus-Liebig de Gießen (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 156400.0 €
- Asociatia obsteasca institutul pentru politici si reforme europene (Rép. Moldave) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 101200.0 €
- Institut europeen d'etudes du developpement (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 243800.0 €
- Universitatea de studii politice si economice europene constantin stere (Rép. Moldave) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 138000.0 €
- Université de Strasbourg (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 110400.0 €
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 119600.0 €
- Université Andrés-Bello (Chili) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Turin (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 69000.0 €
- Centro de investigacao de politicas do ensino superior (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 105800.0 €