‘We won’t pay for your crisis!’ has echoed throughout universities worldwide. The significance of this is that the statement’s momentum has not only spread throughout educational institutions, but has also been present in other areas of society, bringing attention to the general failure of neoliberal capitalism and its appropriation of all spheres of life.

In recent years we have witnessed many conflicts all around Europe, from Spain to Denmark, and from France to Greece and Italy. Together, they constitute a resistance process within the Bologna Process.

The crisis of contemporary university is indissolubly interwoven with the global economic crisis: resistance to the Bologna Process can neither take a conservative standpoint, nor be tinged with national nostalgia but, rather, promoting a radical reconsideration of the epistemological status of knowledge.

Edu-Factory is a collective of about 500 militants, students and researchers proposing the project of a global autonomous university, a process of conflict against the hierarchisation and mechanisms of market-based education systems.

In the context of changing forms of power and control the network is a fertile ground for the rediscovery of autonomous actions and reinvention of political subjectivity.