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ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME GRANT AGREEMENT FOR AN ACTION AGREEMENT NUMBER – 2014-3619/001-001 PROJECT NUMBER – 559252-EPP-1-2014-BE-EPPKA3-BOLOGNA PEER LEARNING ACTIVITY PERMEABILITY BETWEEN HIHGER EDUCATION SECTORS

Erasmus+ Programme • March 16th, 2016

• Contract Type
  Erasmus+ Programme
• Filed
  March 16th, 2016

Short cycle programmes have been the subject of discussion since the beginning of the Bologna Process. While a group of countries had neither short cycle programmes nor any plans to introduce them, other countries with such programmes were looking to integrate them in the Bologna three-cycle system. The compromise wording accepted in the Bologna Process Ministerial Conference in 2005 in Bergen formulated the concept of 'short cycle within the first cycle'. However, this has not solved all the issues. Hence several ministerial communiqués have since addressed short cycle study programmes with a view to improving their transparency and comparability. The 2014 BFUG survey attempted to clarify several issues related to short cycle studies. The number of educational systems having short cycle programmes has grown from 14 in 2005 to 26 in 2014. As illustrated in Figure 2.9, short cycle programmes are most commonly considered to belong to higher education but in some countries they are attrib