Ever since the adoption of the Sorbonne Declaration of June 1998, a discussion has been emerging about the set up of the European Higher Education Area.

By 1999, the group state-parties to the Bologna Declaration had already risen the four original signatories of the Sorbonne Declaration to 29 countries, and at the first follow up meeting in Prague, in 2001, the group increased to 31 countries (including all the countries of the Balkans).

The Bologna Process has reached its half-way point. This provides a good framework for taking stock of how and how far the implementation of the various action lines has reached the national and the institutional level.

Since the Bologna Process does only provide the framework for reforms, sometimes more and sometimes less detailed, there is no homogenous situation throughout Europe regarding the implementation. But also other factors lead to differences in the implementation. Firstly, the starting point of countries was different. Some countries had already a two-tier structure or a credit system in place while others did not have any of this. Countries also started at different times. Especially the countries that only joined the Bologna Process in 2003 are not really advanced in the implementation. This is however not surprising.
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23.06.2008 Branko Lukovac, Ambassador of Montenegro to Croatia and the State Secretary of Higher Education of Croatia Radovan Fuks signed the Memorandum of Cooperation which covers, among other issues, the cooperation of the two countries in the field of doctoral studies.

13.05.2008 The Youth Education Forum (MOF) accused the Student Union at the `Kiril and Metodij` University in Skopje (SSUKM) of neglect of the Constitutional Court ruling to delete provisions in articles 56 and 106 of the University Statute, on MOF`s initiative.

31.01.2007 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) and the Creative Development Foundation (FKR) organized a campaign for collection of support letters for establishment of computerization budget for B&H system of education.

07.10.2005 Sorbonne declaration is a document preceding Bologna declaration signed by ministers in charge of higher education of four countries: France, Germany, Italy and UK.