 For the area of education, this work is also sometimes referred to as "work on the Stockholm conclusions" or "work on the Barcelona objectives" as the more detailed documents were adopted at the Stockholm and Barcelona meetings of the European Council. The Lisbon objectives should however not be confused with the Lisbon convention within the issue of Recognition of qualifications. |
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 Research and innovationis often scattered across the EU, with 80% of public-sector research in Europe being conducted at national level, mainly under national or regional research programmes. This all too often means efforts fail to achieve full results. Following this, the Commission on 18 January 2000 proposed the creation of a European Research Area (ERA) in its Communication 'Towards a European Research Area'. The main aim of the Communication is "... to contribute to the creation of better overall framework conditions for Research in Europe". |
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 Beginning with the Sorbonne Declaration in June 1998, a discussion has been emerging about the setting up of a European Higher Education Area on the continent. |
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 European Higher Education Area on the continent. In 1999 the group of countries signing the Bologna Declaration had already further increased from the four that signed the Sorbonne Declaration to 29 countries, and at the first follow up meeting in 2001 in Prague the group increased to 31 countries. While students had to invite themselves to the Bologna conference, they were included in Prague and ESU has been actively and constructively participating in the follow-up to this process and has adopted a large number of policies on various aspects of the Bologna objectives. |
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