Marek Kwiek, with Professor Peter Maassen of Oslo University, received a two-year research grant from EEA Grants/Norway Grants for the project: NORPOL – Polish Higher Education and the European Higher Education and Research Areas. Comparative Analysis and the Transfer of Good Practices (2009-2011). The Polish team includes also Dr. Piotr W. Juchacz, Dr. Dominik Antonowicz and Adriana Golebiewska, MA (March).

NORPOL

Polish Higher Education and the European Higher Education and Research Areas. Comparative Analysis and the Transfer of Good Practices (2009-2011) funded by Norway Grants/CEE grants

The project responds to the need of strengthened Polish-Norwegian cooperation in the area of higher education research. Its goals include comparative analyses of the functioning of Polish higher eductaion system, the analysis of good practices in Norway and the EU, the analysis of the possibilities of the transfer of most innovative solutions to Poland; as well as preparation of recommendations for Polish educational policy.

Expected outcomes are both research-, teaching- and policy-related. The major outcome of the project is strenghtened cooperation with University of Oslo (and its European partners) within future research, teaching and policy projects. Its outcomes lead directly (via research products) and indirectly (via policy recommendations) to the strenghtening of the research and education potential of Polish universities and their better integration with European systems of research and education.

Presentations from the first Research Seminar (September 2009) include the following:

• Peter Maassen, „University Dynamics and European Integration”
• Peter Maassen, „Introduction to Higher Education in Europe”
• Romulo Pinheiro, „The Regionalization of Higher Education. The Case of Norway”
• Berit Karseth, „Professional Education in Norway”
• Mari Elken, „European Qualifications Framework”
• Dominik Antonowicz, „Polish Higher Education and the Global Change”
• Marek Kwiek, „Creeping Marketization: Where Polish Private and Public Higher Education Sectors Meet”
• Marek Kwiek, „The Two Decades of Privatization in Polish Higher Education: Cost-Sharing, Equity, and Access”

Presentations from the second Research Seminar (January 2010) include the following:

• Peter Maassen, „Governing Autonomous Universities: Experiences from the Nordic Region: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden”
• Martina Vukasovic, „Change in flagship universities in Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia”.
• Dominik Antonowicz, „The cultural and institutional background of changes in Polish higher education 1989-2009”Marek Kwiek, „The New Public-Private Dynamics in Polish Higher Education (in a Wider Comparative Context)”
• Marek Kwiek, „Higher Education Funding in Poland: the Traps of Increasing Financial Self-Reliance”

Presentations from the third Research Seminar (May 2010) include the following:

• Marek Kwiek, „On the Lifelong Learning”
• Marek Kwiek, „Two-Cycle Studies in Poland from a Comparative Perspectivee”
• Peter Maassen
• Mari Elken
• Martina Vukasovic
• Dominik Antonowicz & Romulo Pinheiro

 Publications in the frame of CPP Research Paper Series:

• Vol. 15 (2010) Marek Kwiek, „Zarządzanie polskim szkolnictwem wyższym w kontekście transformacji zarządzania w szkolnictwie wyższym w Europie”
• Vol. 16 (2010) Marek Kwiek, „Finansowanie szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce a transformacje finansowania publicznego szkolnictwa wyższego w Europie”
• Vol. 17 (2010) Marek Kwiek, „Integracja europejska a europejska integracja szkolnictwa wyższego” Vol. 18 (2010) Marek Kwiek, „Dynamika prywatne-publiczne w polskim szkolnictwie wyższym w kontekście europejskim”
• Vol. 19 (2010) Marek Kwiek, „Transfer dobrych praktyk: Europa i Polska”