The Territorial Dimension of EU Knowledge Policies

Higher Education Institutions for Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-78519-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

This book expands our understanding of the so-far overlooked territorial dimension of the EU’s knowledge policies crossing policy area boundaries.

It examines how EU regional policy, endowed with substantial financial resources, influences the comparatively weakly endowed EU higher education policy. The analysis finds that (sub)national actors not only implement EU regional policy instruments, but also actively shape EU policies. By showing this co-shaping transcends policy fields, the book provides new insights into the (feedback) effects of EU-funded cross-border cooperation. It shows that regionalisation endeavours are political projects of regional and EU decision-makers, which remain exposed to Europeanization processes in the long term.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of European policymaking, EU integration, EU regional policies, EU public policy courses and more broadly to geography/development, social policy, governance and education policies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felder-Stindt, Alina J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing the territorial dimension of EU knowledge policies  2. Conceptual and theoretical grounds to cross policy areas and borders  3. Higher education institutions at the crossroads of different European Union policies  4. EU governance architectures and the role of higher education institutions in EU regional policy: Regions for the knowledge economy?  5. How higher education regionalization in border regions relates to Europeanization: Innate or incentivized?  6. How Europeanization influences the governance and practice of higher education regionalization: Changing rationales through increased capacities?  7. How Europeanized higher education institutions re-use EU funding and shop for EU policy-making venues: Feeding Back for Good?  8. Conclusions and implications for the EU and beyond: Towards educational regions?

Über Autor(innen)

Alina J. Felder-Stindt is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Economics and Political Science (SEPS) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.