Maassen Peter, Stensaker Bjørn, Rosso Arianna
Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
High Educ (Dordr). 2022 Nov 2:1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10734-022-00951-4.
The European Union (EU) has repeatedly underlined the importance of higher education, research and innovation as drivers in the further development of Europe-economically, socially and culturally. One of the latest policy initiatives by the European Commission (EC) intended to promote this agenda is the European Universities Initiative (EUI) where alliances between universities across national borders are to identify new approaches for boosting European scientific cooperation. It might be argued that this development represents an attempt to find an organizational solution to the European policy ambitions in higher education, research and innovation. This article presents a framework for analysing European university alliances. Based on interviews with persons occupying key leadership and management roles in ten alliances, the article analyses the potential gains and perils alliances might face along four dimensions: their internal coordination, their ways of resolving conflicts, the commitment of member universities and the cultural characteristics of the alliances.
欧盟（EU）多次强调高等教育、研究与创新作为推动欧洲经济、社会和文化进一步发展的驱动力的重要性。欧盟委员会（EC）旨在推进这一议程的最新政策举措之一是欧洲大学计划（EUI），跨国界的大学联盟将在该计划中确定促进欧洲科学合作的新方法。可以说，这一发展代表了为实现欧洲在高等教育、研究与创新方面的政策目标而寻找一种组织解决方案的尝试。本文提出了一个分析欧洲大学联盟的框架。基于对十个联盟中担任关键领导和管理角色的人员的访谈，本文从四个维度分析了联盟可能面临的潜在收益与风险：其内部协调、解决冲突的方式、成员大学的投入以及联盟的文化特征。
