Globalización e internacionalización educativa. Una historia institucional del Programa ERASMUS, 1987-2014

Abstract

This article outlines the history of the ERASMUS programme since its emergence in the dawn of economic globalization to its merging with the ambitious project of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which was always inspired by the programme. Along the article I highlight how the strategies of internationalization pursued by the European Commission and the member states, focused on the promotion of ERASMUS programme, served to consolidate a set of political and economic measures favouring the transformations that culminated in the Bologna’s Declaration (1999) and in the Lisbon’s Agenda (2000-2010). These transformations will be illustrated through the case of Portugal in the European context, stressing that a project initially publicized as universalist and inclusive was turned into the main foundation of the growingly unequal and commercialized European education system.

Keywords

• Portugal
• ERASMUS programme
• internationalization of education
• Bologna process