Higher education is one of the most important spheres of Eurointegration development which was formed in the Bologna Process. To date, 45 European countries, including Ukraine, are its members. Also, a number of international organizations support the process’s ideas and promote its implementation.

The Bologna Process (BP) is the process of European reforms, aimed at creating the Common Zone of European Higher Education by 2010. BP was officially started in 1999 by signing the Bologna declaration. The precursor to its establishment was the signing of the Great Charter of European Universities (Magna Charta Universitatum).

According to BP aims, educational systems of all member countries must be changed by 2010 to facilitate:
- simplified movement of citizens for the purpose of further studies or job placement in the Zone of European Higher Education;
- growth of European Higher Education appeal;
- Europe’s expansion and ensuring its further development as a stable, peaceful, tolerant society.

It should be pointed out that BP does not foresee the creation of completely identical educational systems in different countries. It is intended for strengthening the interconnections and improving mutual understanding between different educational systems.

On 19th May at the Conference of Ministers of the European Countries (Norway, Bergen) Ukraine joined the Bologna Process, having undertaken a commitment to make corresponding changes into the national system of education and to join the work of defining priorities in the process of creating the Common European Zone of Higher Education by 2010.