European Higher Education Area

EHEA
Formation	March 2010
Location	Europe;
Membership	48 states

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bologna Process.

As the main objective of the Bologna Process since its inception in 1999, the EHEA was meant to ensure more comparable, compatible and coherent higher education systems in Europe. Between 1999 and 2010, all the efforts of the Bologna Process members were targeted to creating the European Higher Education Area, which became reality with the Budapest-Vienna Declaration of March 2010. In order to join the EHEA, a country must sign and ratify the European Cultural Convention treaty.

Denmark was the first country outside the UK and the US to introduce the 3+2+3 system.

Members

Participating member states of the European Higher Education Area are:^[1]

Countries eligible to join:

Monaco
San Marino

Public international law standards

Lisbon Recognition Convention (Lisbon, 4 July 1997)
Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (Paris, 20 March 1952)
Article 10 of the European Social Charter (revised, Strasbourg, 3 May 1996)