The Vice Rector for International Cooperation and Relations, Venera Llunji, participated in the virtual meeting “European Universities 2030: Vision and Values”, organized by the Magna Charta Observatory.

The purpose of this meeting was to analyze two important documents issued by MCHO and the European University Association: the new Magna Charta Universitatum (MCU2020) and the “Universities without walls – a vision for 2030” report.

In February 2021, as one of the two founders of the Magna Charta Observatory, the European University Association published a report titled ‘Universities without walls – a vision for 2030’. The report is based on extensive consultations with individuals, expert groups and actors. The report contains topics such as the sustainability and agenda of the United Nations by 2030, digital transformation, geopolitical situations and global tensions, and the impact of Covid 19.

Precisely because of these “seismic” movements and fundamental challenges that affect universities, it is all the more reason for universities to stand firm and maintain their core values, such as academic freedom, institutional autonomy and scientific integrity.

In 2020, this international body issued a new document called the new Magna Charta Universitatum (MCU2020), which examines and considers the changes in higher education from the time that the original document was released in 1988 up until 2020, and predicts the difficulties that universities will go through in 2020 and beyond. 

Prof. Lunji contributed in the implementation of the strategies of these two documents and the method in which universities can balance the strategic orientation of their activities towards great social goals by emphasizing academic freedom and the individual freedom of researchers.