The recent decade brought about new ways of thinking about universities.
European-level educational policies became increasingly influential as
the agenda of university reforms was viewed as part of greater Lisbon
strategy reforms. National governments adopted the economic concept of
the university consistently developed in subsequent official documents
of the European Commission. The EU member states currently need to
balance their educational policies between the requirements of policies
promoted by the EU and the requirements of their national systems.
Additionally, the national educational policies are under high pressure
due to globalisation. European universities and European academics
operate in the midst of these large-scale changes. Their interpretations
of and their responses to what is termed «the modernisation agenda of
European universities» are at the core of this volume.