This international study focuses on the funding systems in the area of higher education in the
following countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Norway, Portugal and
Slovak Republic. Each individual country study was designed and conducted within an overall common
framework by a project partner from the respective country.
By using the stakeholder approach, this study addresses and analyses the effects of funding systems
on the higher education system and its institutions. In order to present a comprehensive overview, the study
explicitly takes into account the stakeholders' diversity and explores the effects of how funding systems
are perceived and assessed differently...
