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vague europeenne | 16.04.2009 01:04 | Education | Globalisation | Social Struggles

On the 28th and 29th, of April in Louvain and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium the bi-annual ministerial conference of the Bologna processes will be reassembled "to assess the progress achieved and the new steps to be taken" and to give feedback on university reforms already on their way. Did they ever ask students, teachers and researchers, workers and staff of Europe? In addition to the ministers of education, consulting members such as Business Europe (european patronal organisation) and the ESU (european student union) will be present to evaluate this process.

Louvain 2009
Louvain 2009



Responding to European's Wave(Vague européenne) call for a meeting in 
Paris, on Friday 27 mars, we, militants from different fronts, 
reaffirm the call  for the counter summit in Louvain against the 
Bologna Processus, planned from Saturday 25th to Wednesday 29th of 
april.
State chiefs have already met during the Spring European Council, from 
the 18th to th 20th of March. To get out of the crisis they call to 
accelerate the "reforms" and to poursue the Lisbonne strategy.  They 
reaffirm by that their willing to complete their offense of 
privatisation of education, in a european scale.
Since our last call, the european youth's struggles for education et 
their future have expanded: February and March saw countless 
demonstrations going on in Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Danmark....
It's time to converge all these struggles, unite all national 
mouvements in one european. Tha Louvain Counter Summit and the 
following mobilisations are a decisseful step to built this 
convergence.
On the same time, from the 20th to the 29th of April, the Global Week 
of Action (www.emancipating-education-for-all.org) is taking place, 
whiche's  the Counter Summit is part. The GWA tries to make all 
struggles visible in an international perspective.
We are, so, inviting all general assemblies, mouvements, occupied 
facculties, associations, syndical and political organisations and 
every other person in the European Counter Summit in Leuven and 
Louvain-la-Neuve.
This is a call for the creation of local groups of technical 
organisation for their venue: Informations relating to transports put 
in place by associations and organisations can be considered by Vague 
Europeenne and displayed on the site (contact: 
 transportlouv...@gmail.com).  Logistic information concerning 
accomodation (camping, sportshall) will be progressively added on the 
site.
We are also asking the participants to work on their contributions to 
the different workshops they intend to participate, and to think of 
other workshops to propose(cf. program, contact: 
 atelierslouv...@gmail.com).
Furthermore, we invite the participants to edit as soon as possible 
texts (maximum 4 pages) introducing us to the reforms relating to the 
Bologna Processus put in place in their country: Which modes of 
application, What kind of resistance?
We invite every organisation and person to sign our call in www.louvain2009.com
Let's share our experiences and strategies, establish a net, let's 
give our revolts everywhere in Europe a much stronger breath.

The Counter Summit's first three days are most luckily going to take 
place in Brussels, where analysing and discussion workshops on 
education, will be given some time. The two last days are reserved 
for manifestation and actions, prepared during the counter summit.
Saturday, april 25th
9h30 - 12h30 : Bologna Process, reforms and national resistances.
14h - 18h00 : International Workshops.
18h : Commun feedback (Workshops).
Sunday, april 26th
From 9h30 : International Workshops.
18h : Commun feedback (Workshops).
Monday, april 27th
9h30 - 12h30 : Plastic and artistic Workshops and education's european 
perspectives.
14h00 - xxxx : Composition of Bologne alternative.
Tuesday, april 28th
10h : Demonstration in Leuven for the  ministerial conférence's 
opening.
14h : Demonstration in Brussels, Gare du Nord, organised by the 
RESPACT plateform(www.respact.be).
Wednesday, april 29th
10h -19h Workshops- Actions (flyer distribution- workshop 
presentation).

Furthermore, we are calling for the participation in the 
demonstration, uniting students, legal and illegal workers, organised 
by the student solidarity to the Belgian "no-papers" commities' 
federation, in Brussels on Friday,  May 1st.





International Workshops.
Concerning international workshops, three axes are proposed: 
1. EDUCATION- UNIVERSITY- SOCIETY 
2. TRANSMISSION, PRODUCTION, COMMUNICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND 
PROFFESSIONAL QUALITIES(EXPERIENCE). 
3. UNIVERSITY LIFE AND FUNCTIONNING
These axes are an arbitrary division: They are, just to help place the 
counter- summit in time. We propose to mention their different 
perspectives in every workshop, if this is... 
we are inviting you to prepare these workshops ocally to start 
building the counter- summit. We are also inviting you to indicate to 
us these that you would ike to organise. The workshops are up to their 
participants initiative, develloped on the principal axes in 
perspective of a counter- declaration composition (Bologne 
Alternative). Other workshops can be freel created outside these axes. 
The publication of workshops'list on the website will be closed on the 
20th of april, but every workshop could find its place during the 
counter- summit.
The Workshops already proposed and created are the following:
        •     Means of expression. 
        •     Kmowledge and proffessional qualities. 
        •     Evaluation (professors, students, research) 
        •     Knowledge's disciplines. 
        •     Equality infront of Knowledge 
        •     Gender in education. 
        •     Esperiences' Validation
        •     PhD condition and work division in university. 
        •     Research in teaching and learning. 
        •     Research budget and utility. 
        •     Universities' budget. 
        •     Democracy in Universities. Governance, Representation, 
Administration, Autogestion. 
        •  University Asile. 
        •     Passion and cognition vs knowledge ingenuosity. 
        •     Intellectual property. 
        •     Knowledge Transmission and inegalitary relationship teachers/ 
students.
        •     Administration and technical stuff, what role on education and 
research? 
        •     Critical Initiatives on university borders. 
        •     University area: librarys, accomodation, material. 
        •     University exchange. 
        • New resistance forms / Specific repression in university world. 
        •  Media and social mobilisations. 
        • Rationalisation des offres, masters' centralisation/ 
decentralisation. University fusion. 
        •     Research independance guarantees. 
        •     Privatisation (mecenas, consultants, private partners....) 
        •  Lobbies (CEO)

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