This article considers the conceptualisation of the “external dimension” of the Bologna Process and debates around it in the light of the 20th anniversary of the Bologna Declaration. The term began to be used in the early 2000s and referred to the articulation of possible relationships between the then emerging European Higher Education Area and the rest of the world. We analyse issues related to the drafting of the Bologna Global Strategy (2007), also by taking into account less well-known policy documents, and the reactions to the Bologna Process from various global regions. Further, we critically elaborate on the thesis of the “Bologna model” and its alleged “export” to the world. We argue that this thesis is controversial and that its background should be sought in dichotomies related to the Europeanisation process, in particular in the dichotomy of “means” versus “ends” as well as the “market” versus “cultural” mission of European higher education institutions.

本文考虑了博洛尼亚进程的“外部维度”的概念，并根据《博洛尼亚宣言》 20周年围绕它进行了辩论。该术语于2000年代初开始使用，指的是当时新兴的欧洲高等教育区与世界其他地区之间可能存在的联系。我们还将考虑不太为人所知的政策文件以及全球各个地区对博洛尼亚进程的反应，来分析与《博洛尼亚全球战略》（2007年）起草有关的问题。此外，我们批判性地阐述了“博洛尼亚模式”及其所谓的“向世界出口”的论点。我们认为该论点是有争议的，应在与欧洲化过程相关的二分法中寻找其背景，