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TRUE – Transforming Universities


TRUE addresses the Governance and Steering topic in the EUROHESC call for proposals. The aim of the research is to clarify how steering and governance have affected organisational characteristics of HEIs and how this has affected the differentiation of the European HE landscape. The transformation will be analysed by means of three perspectives: 1) universalism assumes that universities are specific organisations; 2) instrumentalism assumes that universities are just like any kind of organisation; and 3) institutionalism assuming that the crucial question is the fit between the norms and values of universities and reformers.

The CRP focuses on three interrelated themes: governance and steering, organisational change and the higher education landscape. The IPs and APs have divided the subthemes systematically between them in order to study the subthemes comparatively in a systematic way.

The CRP has accordingly adopted a systematic procedure for a common eight country database based on five data collection strategies: a) National cases studies based on a common design, realised by national teams. b) Case studies of three individual HEIs in each country (24 overall). c) Joint survey of all HEIs in the involved countries, developed collectively and delivered nationally. d) In-depth comparative analyses of national policies and instruments: e) Collection of common data for a basic characterization of HEIs.

 

TRUE Framework:

FP-007: The Transformation of European Universities (TRUE)

Project Leader:

Prof. Ivar Bleiklie, Department of Administration and Organization Theory,

U. Bergen

Principal Investigators:

  • Prof. António Magahães, CIPES, U. Porto
  • Dr. Benedetto Lepori, Faculty of Communication Sciences, U. Switzerland
  • Prof. Barbara Kehm, International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER), U. Kassel
  • Prof. Jürgen Enders, Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), U. Twente
  • Dr. Nicoline Frølich, NIFUSTEP, Oslo

Associate Partners:

  • Prof. Jeroen Huisman, ICHEM (International Centre for Higher Education Management), School of Management, U. Bath
  • Dr. Emanuela Reale, CERIS-CNR, Italy
  • Dr. Christine Musselin, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) Paris, CNRS

Countries

DE, NL, NO, PT, CH, UK

 

 

TRUE Network:

TRUE Network

Bergen

1.       Ivar Bleiklie

2.       Svein Michelsen

3.       Tor Halvorsen

4.       Gigliola Mathisen

5.       PhD-student

Porto

6.       António Magalhães

7.       Rui Santiago

8.       Maria de Lourdes Machado

9.       Sofia Sousa

10.   Orlanda Tavares

Twente

11.   Jürgen Enders

12.   Harry de Boer

13.   PhD-student

Kassel

14.   Barbara Kehm

15.   Peter Martin Kretek

16.   Zarko Drasic

Lugano

17.   Benedetto Lepori

18.   Martin Benninghoff

19.   Martina Montauti

Bath

20.   Jeroen Huisman

21.   Paulo Botas

Oslo

22.   Nicoline Frølich

23.   Stig Slipersæter

Paris

24.   Christine Musselin

25.   PhD-student

Rome

26.   Emanuela Reale

27.   Marco Seeber

28.   PhD student

 


Sist endret: 18.1.2010