Business computing - a shared curriculum proposed for the Spanish-Portuguese border under the auspices of the new European higher education area

The Bologna declaration is leading to a change of paradigm in the context of higher education in many countries of the European Community; it has a significant impact at the level of curriculum and learning models. Therefore, any reflection and decision work on the processes of teaching/learning imposes the curricular reformulation of higher courses in an innovating way, supported by new references and assumptions. In the context of a project financed by European Community program Interreg III A, we have created a workgroup to propose the reformulation of several courses that belong to business computing, from ESTiG-Portugal and from ESPZ-Spain, in an attempt to create harmony between both study plans, considering the socio-economic specific context of the border region between Braganca (Portugal) and Zamora (Spain). This article intends to describe a case-study related to the work done to achieve a curriculum for business computing; it describes the changes due to the recent recommendations of Bologna and governmental reflections of Portugal and Spain.