User:Jouschandris

As a user, I would like to contribute to Wikipedia articles on university affairs - mainly in Europe - since I have been from 1976 to 2001 the Secretary General of the CRE (Standing Conference of the Rectors, Vice-Chancellors and Presidents of European Universities) based in Geneva, Switzerland, and, from March 2001 until September 2002 the Secretary General of the EUA (the European University Association) that succeeded CRE after the latter merged with the Confederation of Rectors Conferences in the European Union, an organisation based in Brussels. CRE was created in 1955 in Cambridge, UK, in a conference chaired by the Duke of Edinburgh while the Confederation was born in 1973 in Brussels as a cluster of those rectors associations based in EU countries, a subset of the CRE membership that covered universities from all over Europe, East and West. Now retired - since February 2008 - I may take advantage of publications on the 'History of the University in Europe', in particular a project with that title started in 1981 by CRE, a series of four volumes published by Cambridge University Press in England (the fourth volume being due next year) and, in parallel, in German, by Beck Verlag in Munich. Translations also exist in Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese - and partly in Russian. Linked to that effort at determining the universities' role and responsibility in the development of European society and culture, various articles have been produced for different publications like 'CRE-Action', the quarterly bulletin of the Standing Conference, or Higher Education in Europe, the magazine of the UNESCO Centre for Higher  Education in Europe (CEPES), based in Bucharest, Romania. Other documents (proceedings, business reports of the CRE from 1955 to 2001) may be quoted in the process.

AB/10 August 2008, Geneva