Pouvoirs, contre-pouvoirs et concertation sociale dans les universités

Across Europe, the academic world is confronted with profound transformations in higher education and research. Trade pressures, economic utilitarianism, international competition for excellence and funding constraints are increasingly tied to the university's public interest in the production and dissemination of knowledge. Whether they are involved in teaching, research or administration, all university staff experience these transformations and pressures on a daily basis. Their working conditions, their jobs, their investment in work and their prospects for professional development, as well as their contracts and their statutes, are at the heart of their concerns. Trade union organizations seek both to relay these concerns and to anticipate the impacts of change in a long-term view of the quality of work in the university and the role of the university in society. Alongside the various institutional mechanisms of participation, what is the place of consultation and negotiation in the relations of power and counter power in the universities? How can the governance of universities be more democratic and more open to the societal dimension? How can we make the university more interdependent, inside and outside?--Google translation of cover page 4.