Description: Proposal for Round table. The proposal is of two (not parallel) sessions. Co-ordinator for the round tables is Elinor Edvardsson Siwne. The Bologna process in process - stories told and translated in four European countriesSession 1: The translation and interpretation of European policy documents at national levels. In this session four different papers will be presented and discussed.Convenor TBADiscussant TBAContributors: PhD student Andreas Fejes, University of Linköping, Sweden"European citizens under construction - the Bologna process analysed from a governmentality perspective". ( Preliminary title and contribution)Senior Researcher Jani Ursin, University of Jyväskylä, Finland"Quality in the Bologna Process: diverse understandings of a quality assurance system"Associate Professor Elinor Edvardsson Stiwne, University of Linköping, Sweden"The Bologna processing and the academic freedom - a struggle for discoursive power?Research Fellow Judith Litjens, University of Edinburgh. UK" The Bologna Process and the impact of Bachelor-Masters programmes on Dutch HE policy"Abstract This Round table is divided in two sessions with a common focus of monitoring the ongoing process of interpreting and implementing the ideas and texts produced within the construct of the "Bologna process". The point of departure is an assumption that the overall aim of creating a European Higher Education Area is translated, interpreted and implemented within national, professional and personal frames of references, which are enacted in different ways. The contributions of this Round table will give some glimpses of this ongoing process. In this first session focus is on how policy documents, produced and agreed on, at a European level are translated and discussed in different national contexts."European citizens under construction - the Bologna process analysed from a governmentality perspective" This contribution focus on how texts on the Bologna process construct a specific rationality of governing that produces practices of exclusion. Who is and who is not a European citizen? Documents on the Bologna process produced in Europe and in Sweden are analysed drawing on the Foucauldian notion of governmentality. The result show how there is a Swedish European under construction. Higher education in Europe is to be made more transparent as a way to face the threats of the future. Through the linguistic technique of diversity and the technique of auditing the different nations and its citizens are to be made into "Europeans" who are flexible, autonomous and mobile. Further, I argue that the current power relations in the discourse define what is and what is not European, and what is and what is not within the borders of Europe"Quality in the Bologna Process: diverse understandings of a quality assurance system"Owing to the Bologna process quality assurance (QA) is one of the key issues in Finnish higher education. One difficulty in the introduction of QA system thinking into universities is the complexity of the concept of QA. How a QA system is embodied depends on how it isdefined. The general definitions and guidelines of the QA system proposed by the (inter)national quality assurance agencies are problematic when they are taken forgranted in the development of internal QA systems and thereby perceived as a threat to theautonomy of academic staff and the anticipation of a change in the power relationships. Thereby QA can have a counterproductive effect. In this contribution some results from a research project concerning the introduction of internal QA systems into Finnish universities are presented, with a focus on the different definitions and meanings given to the concept by actors of different levels of a university. "The Bologna processing and the academic freedom - a struggle for discoursive power?Sweden is one of the Bologna countries that had not presented a Governmental bill at the Bergen summit 2005, and thereby had not started the implementation process. In December 2005 the National Agency for Higher Education presented a report "Academic freedom at work - a report of the state of art within the field of Higher Education" (HSV Rapport 2005:43R) based on interviews with academic staff and students about the meaning of the concept "Academic freedom". In this contribution these presented results will be discussed in relation to the delay of the Government bill. Using a theoretical frame of reference based on the work of Czarniawska (2005) and her elaboration of the concept of action nets as well as the concept of intergroup relations the focus will be on the relation between actors rather than on the structure of organisations or action of individuals and groups. "The Bologna Process and the impact of Bachelor-Masters programmes on Dutch HE policy"This contribution presents the impact of the Bologna process on Dutch higher education policy. As a way of illustrating this phenomenon, emphasis will be placed on Bachelor-Masters (BAMA) Programmes. Changes in higher education, such as increasing competitiveness and decentralisation, have increased the need for new regulations on a European level. Although the EU does not have much legal authority in educational policy, Europeanisation of higher education is becoming increasingly apparent. The Bologna Agreement has been a major push for the integration of the European dimension in Dutch higher education policy. This contribution aims to discuss the effects of the Bologna Process on the Dutch Ministry of Education, the VSNU (Association of Dutch Universities) and Dutch higher education institutions.