ABSTRACT
The central argument of this chapter is that the Europeanisation of higher education is driven not so much by top-down, institutional actions of the EU as by their impact on cognitive and normative structures. These actions do not have a direct impact but create a climate in which such an impact occurs. In this respect, two processes play a significant role. The first of them consists in the implementation of such European values as rule of law, free movement of people, solidarity. They are of crucial importance with regard to exchange programmes for academics and students, simultaneously paving the way for closer cooperation. The other process generates a spill-over effect, that is, the transfer of the consequences of Europeanisation in the social and economic areas to higher education.
