SANBOL TASK FORCE is devoted to practical aspects of implementation Bologna Process objectives through sharing good practices, common identification and solution of difficulties with recognition of academic and processional qualifications, introduction of the three cycle system, realisation of the mobility concept as well as development quality assurance methods.


Responsibilities

  • Identification of best practices in individual universities and sharing them with other SG members.
  • Exchange of experience during the meetings of the task force members as well as other related representatives of the SG members devoted to popularisation of achievements and solutions in the Bologna reforms in the SG universities.
  • Advice on the practical solutions through expertise in the relevant areas.
  • Contribute to European policy making through production of final conclusions document and its distribution to the European authorities of higher education.


TASK FORCE OBJECTIVES

The Bologna Declaration, June 19, 1999 involves six actions relating to:
  1. a system of academic grades which are easy to read and compare, including the introduction of the diploma supplement (designed to improve international "transparency" and facilitate academic and professional recognition of qualifications);
  2. a system essentially based on two cycles : a first cycle geared to the employment market and lasting at least three years and a second cycle (Master) conditional upon the completion of the first cycle;
  3. a system of accumulation and transfer of credits (of the ECTS type already used successfully under Socrates-Erasmus);
  4. mobility of students, teachers and researchers;
  5. cooperation with regard to quality assurance;
  6. the European dimension of higher education.

The aim of the process is thus to make the higher education systems in Europe converge towards a more transparent system which whereby the different national systems would use a common framework based on three cycles - Degree/Bachelor, Master and Doctorate.

The SANBOL Task Force is composed of Vice-Rectors dealing with the Bologna Process. At these meetings a final conclusions document is delivered. These conclusions are conveyed to the European authorities so that the Santander Group finds its own niche.

Decision of establishing the Sanbol Task Force was taken during the Liaison Officers Meeting in Murcia on 14-15 October 2005.





SANBOL MEETINGS

I SANBOL MEETING, Poznań, Poland, 21 January 2006

II SANBOL MEETING, Brussels, Belgium, 20 January 2007

III SANBOL MEETING, Lund, Sweden, 20-21 September 2007
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