The Madrid Open University (UDIMA) has its whole educational offer of official degrees adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Guidelines.

The creation of the European Higher Education Area had a decisive advance with the Declaration of Bologna, signed on June 19th, 1999. This is an Intergovernmental process carried out with the collaboration of universities, students, the European Commission, and other organizations aimed to establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010.

The purpose of EHEA is not to homogenize Higher Education Systems but to enhance its compatibility and comparability, while being respectful of its diversity. EHEA is considered as an open space, free of obstacles to the mobility of students, graduates, professors, and administrative staff that. EHEA is articulated by the acknowledgement of higher education degrees and other qualifications, transparency - a system of easily readable and comparable three-cycle degrees-, and the European cooperation in quality assurance.

The new scenario defined by the European Higher Education Area demands a more active student in class through continuous work.

The following are the 6 goals stated in the Declaration of Bologna:

• 1. The adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees by implementing, among other issues, of the Diploma Supplement.
• 2. The adoption of a system essentially based on two main cycles: Graduate and Post-graduate.
• 3. The establishment of a system of credits - such as in the ECTS or European Credit Transfer System - that promotes mobility.
• 4. The promotion of the European co-operation for quality assurance in the development of criteria and comparable methodologies.
• 5. The promotion of the necessary European dimensions in higher education with particular emphasis in the curricular development.
• 6. The promotion of mobility and the overcoming of obstacles to the free movement of students, professors and administrative staff of the Universities and other European higher education institutions.