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Zwei Städte sind Paten der europäischen Bildungsreformen: Bologna für die Hochschulbildung und Kopenhagen für die Berufsausbildung. Über die Auswirkungen beider Reformprozesse wird in der Öffentlichkeit heftig gestritten. Doch welche gemeinsamen Ideen und Grundsätze liegen den Reformen eigentlich zugrunde? Im WZB-Forschungsprojekt „Internationalization of Vocational and Higher Education Systems“ wurden beide Reformen analysiert.


 

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Two cities are models for European education reform: Bologna for higher education and Copenhagen for vocational training. The effects of both reform processes are subject of heated public debate. But what are the shared fundamentals and ideas behind the reforms?

Wherever citizen participation is strong, there is less corruption. Benny Geys and Nicolas Grießhaber have reviewed this thesis, broadly present in research, within 20 European democracies. Their conclusion: It depends on the type of participation.

How can new forms of participation strengthen representative democracies? Does more political involvement increase their stability and legitimacy? These questions are at the center of WZB guest scholar Thamy Pogrebinschi’s research project.

The state of social and healthcare professions in Germany does not look good. In spite of a significant growth in personnel over the past years, the workload has increased immensely. In the new, WZB scholars Dietmar Dathe, Franziska Paul and Stefan Stuth analyze working conditions in social services.