Particularly in the Partner Countries, higher education institutions are currently facing major challenges linked to (i) dramatic demographic changes (number of people potentially having access to higher education, age structure, migration flows), (ii) increasing global competition, leading to a considerable shi in the distribution of the economic power at world level, (iii) changes in science and technology but notably the growing importance of organisational and societal innovation rather than purely technological innovation and last but not least (iv) challenges of societies in transition (social cohesion, human rights, etc.).
No equivalent paragraph in the English Version – Sna Tíortha Comhpháirtithe ach go háirithe, tá institiúidí ardoideachais ag tabhairt aghaidh faoi láthair ar dhúshláin ollmhóra nasctha le (i) athruithe déimeagrafacha suntasacha (líon na ndaoine le cumas acu teacht ar ardoideachas, struchtúr aoise, sreabha imirce), (ii)comór-tas domhanda méadaitheach, ag cruthú athruithe suntasacha i ndáileadh na cumhachta eacnamaíochta ag leibhéal domhanda, (iii) athruithe in eolaíocht agus i dteicneolaíocht ach go háirithe an tábhacht mhéadaitheach a bhaineann le nuálaíocht eagraíochtúil agus na sochaí in ionad nuálaíocht teicneolaíochta go hiomlán agus ar deireadh ach gan ar a laghad (iv) dúshláin de shochaithe i mbun trasdula (comhtháthú sóisialta, cearta daonna, s.rl.).