Press Release: A new step towards a European area of higher education : European Universities to ‘tune’ their study programmes

The European Commission hosted a big conference gathering over 100 European universities, student associations, professional bodies and employees on Friday 31 May 2002 in Brussels, drawing to a close the first phase of the Socrates pilot project 'Tuning Educational Structures in Europe'. This is a two-year pilot project co-ordinated by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and the University of Deusto, Spain. Its main purpose is to identify knowledge skills necessary for university graduates to be employable at European level, in seven different fields: Mathematics, Geology, Business, History, Educational Sciences, Chemistry and Physics.