Serhii Shkarlet addressed the Bologna Follow-Up Group

Today, on March 1, 2022, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhii Shkarlet addressed the Bologna Follow-Up Group and the key structures of the European Higher Education Area – European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), European University Association (EUA), European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE), and ENIC-NARIC Networks on suspending Russia from intergovernmental and institutional cooperation. 

‘The European Higher Education Area is built on the fundamental principles of democracy and the rule of law. These principles have been unequivocally reinforced in the EHEA vision in the Rome Communique 2020, signed by 48 Ministers responsible for higher

education in all the European Higher Education Area countries. The Russian Federation has demonstrated to the whole world that it violates all the principles and conditions of cooperation among countries, by destroying everything in its path. I am convinced that only united can we have impactful European education. Together – we are invincible!’, stressed Serhii Shkarlet. 

At 5 o’clock in the morning on February 24, 2022 the Russian Federation has started the war against Ukraine. Our country endures massive bombing, shelling and invasion by troops. The Bologna Process cannot stand aside from the ruthless aggression and remain silent at this turning point for the whole world. Ukraine considers it unacceptable to continue Russia's presence in the Bologna Process and asks for an immediate and clear reaction of the EHEA to the war that the Russian Federation has started against Ukraine.

Recently the Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet held an online meeting with the Minister of Education, Science and Sport of Lithuania Jurgita Petrauskienė, the Minister of Education and Science of Latvia Anita Muižniece, and the Minister of Education and Science of Estonia Liina Kersna.