title: Tracking a Remarkable Intellectual and Policy Journey: Building a European Higher Education Area Furthering the Fundamental Values of Higher Education
abstract: Abstract This chapter identifies and discusses a remarkable dimension of the process of building the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which concerns the fundamental values of higher education. From their very start, the Bologna Process and the EHEA have included references to values. The chapter tracks how these references evolved over 25 years from being unsystematic and not very central from a policy point of view to becoming a well-articulated and solid intellectual and policy framework