!!The Multiversity – a supra-organisational and global scientific network co-constituting the knowledge society
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__Günter Koch__
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General Secretary of „The New Club of Paris“, c/o. execupery\\
Address: Mittelgasse 7, A-1060 Wien, Austria, tel. +43-699-19412152\\
E-mail: koch [[at] execupery.com 
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!1. The crisis of universities
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__In Europe__ (by and large, exceptions recognised)
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*Unclear political decisons on autonomy of the universities
*Despite tendency towards more autonomy, strong external and / or internal __regulations__, either by law, or by self imposed rules.
*Questionable professionalism in university management
*__Decreasing public financial support__ (at least, not increasing)
*Inherent conflicts not solved: access to university -> masses of students, i.e. accessing versus lack of financial support. __Infrastructure quality decreasing__.
*For reasons of life support, most students cannot use their time for only following their studies, i.e are stressed in fulfilling their objectives.
*__Fast changing study programs__ as short sighted responses to „market needs“
*__Loss of integrative knowledge acquisition__; little to no support for interdisplinary -> transdisciplinary research
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__In the US__
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*Foreseeable financial problems both for universities and students\\
*Increasing divergency between high class / top level universities with strong research competence and „provincial“ teaching universities: relatively few on the top, many in mediocracy
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__Elsewhere__
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*A combination of these problems ...
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