L'université circonscrite par Bologne

The Bologna process has (re)launched the debate, consubstantial to European building, on the missions and the governance of universities. It has permitted to the European Commission to take the piloting of higher education and research policies, by putting them to the service of the Lisbon strategy. More its implication in the Bologna process increased, more the Commission has oriented universities’ reform. This article proposes a sociohistory of the European universities policies between 1950 and 2009. It traces particularly soft methods by which, in a decade (1998-2009), the Commission reaches them to define in Europe the good university institution, the good teaching and the good science, from now on thinking in network. The aims is to show the shifts in the vision of the universities when the relationship between the actors of the Bologna process were modified.