Schwan, Gesine
Discussant: A Plea for European Diversity
I think a common point of both speakers was the meaning of “European” in a “European university system,” what I might describe as a kind of centralist approach. I wanted to follow up what Professor Pombeni said about the supranational nature of higher education. In the first sense, of course, higher education should not be nationalistic, and the supranational nature might be true for natural sciences. However, on the other hand there might be differences between our social sciences and humanities.
