Dr Iryna Kushnir is currently Associate Professor in Education Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She previously worked at the University of Sheffield and University of Edinburgh. Dr Kushnir’s interdisciplinary research combines the following main areas: higher education, education policy, post-Soviet Europeanisation and migration. Her interdisciplinary approach has led to empirical and theoretical contributions, which reveal how education policy on one hand and Europeanisation processes and post-Soviet transition on the other hand are interrelated and mutually shape one another.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Iryna KushnirChapter 2. The Neo-institutionalist Approach; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 3. The European Project and European Higher Education; Iryna KushnirChapter 4. Germany’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area: Leading Europe; Iryna Kushnir Chapter 5. France’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area – (still) ‘moderating’ the leading of Europe; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 6. Italy’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area: Coordinating Cooperation in Higher Education While Attempting to Stay Apolitical; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 7. United Kingdom’s Membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area: Applying a Heterogeneous Agenda; Iryna Kushnir Chapter 8. European Cooperation in Higher Education and the Evolving Mission of the European Project (in the Early 2020s); Iryna Kushnir Chapter 9. Conclusion; Iryna Kushnir

Dr Iryna Kushnir is currently Associate Professor in Education Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She previously worked at the University of Sheffield and University of Edinburgh. Dr Kushnir’s interdisciplinary research combines the following main areas: higher education, education policy, post-Soviet Europeanisation and migration. Her interdisciplinary approach has led to empirical and theoretical contributions, which reveal how education policy on one hand and Europeanisation processes and post-Soviet transition on the other hand are interrelated and mutually shape one another.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Iryna KushnirChapter 2. The Neo-institutionalist Approach; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 3. The European Project and European Higher Education; Iryna KushnirChapter 4. Germany’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area: Leading Europe; Iryna Kushnir Chapter 5. France’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area – (still) ‘moderating’ the leading of Europe; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 6. Italy’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area: Coordinating Cooperation in Higher Education While Attempting to Stay Apolitical; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 7. United Kingdom’s Membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area: Applying a Heterogeneous Agenda; Iryna Kushnir Chapter 8. European Cooperation in Higher Education and the Evolving Mission of the European Project (in the Early 2020s); Iryna Kushnir Chapter 9. Conclusion; Iryna Kushnir

Dr Iryna Kushnir is currently Associate Professor in Education Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She previously worked at the University of Sheffield and University of Edinburgh. Dr Kushnir’s interdisciplinary research combines the following main areas: higher education, education policy, post-Soviet Europeanisation and migration. Her interdisciplinary approach has led to empirical and theoretical contributions, which reveal how education policy on one hand and Europeanisation processes and post-Soviet transition on the other hand are interrelated and mutually shape one another.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Iryna KushnirChapter 2. The Neo-institutionalist Approach; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 3. The European Project and European Higher Education; Iryna KushnirChapter 4. Germany’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area: Leading Europe; Iryna Kushnir Chapter 5. France’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area – (still) ‘moderating’ the leading of Europe; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 6. Italy’s Membership in the European Higher Education Area: Coordinating Cooperation in Higher Education While Attempting to Stay Apolitical; Iryna Kushnir and Nuve YazganChapter 7. United Kingdom’s Membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area: Applying a Heterogeneous Agenda; Iryna Kushnir Chapter 8. European Cooperation in Higher Education and the Evolving Mission of the European Project (in the Early 2020s); Iryna Kushnir Chapter 9. Conclusion; Iryna Kushnir