Anno domini 1998 during the first Austrian EU-Presidency, the "Sorbonne Declaration,"¹ which mentioned a harmonization of the European Higher Education systems, came to a first concrete discussion at the informal meeting of education ministers. Several countries supported the idea of a common procedure in the field of Higher Education. Then the Italian minister for higher education invited the ministers to a ministerial conference in Bologna and the European Higher Education Area was born. After studies of the trends in the field of higher education, the "Bologna Declaration" was signed in June 1999. Among the priorities were implementation of comparable diplomas, creation of a bipartite Higher Education system, promotion of Mobility and Quality Assurance, as well as promotion of the European Dimension of Higher Education. For European higher education, June 19,1999, became a crucial date. By 2010, a total of 29 countries decided to participate in the creation of a European Higher Education Area.