The foundations of the Bologna Process were laid in 1998 with the Sorbonne Declaration published at the end of the meeting held in the Sorbonne by the Ministers of Education of France, Italy, Germany, and England. The idea of creating a common higher education area in Europe emerged for the first time with this declaration. However, the Bologna Process officially started in 1999 with the signing and publication of the Bologna Declaration by the Ministers of 29 European countries who are responsible for higher education. Six of the main objectives of the Bologna Process were announced with this declaration. These aims are:

1.To present a clear, understandable and comparable diplomas and degrees (with this aim, developing the application of Diploma Supplement).
2. Adopting a system based on two main cycles in higher education, undergraduate and graduate.
3. To apply European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
4. To enable the mobility of the students and the teachers.
5. At higher education to enable the quality guarantee system and to create the network.
6. To develop European dimension in higher education.

Student Participation:
It is for students to take a role as active stakeholders in the processes within the scope of the Bologna Process's fields of activity.

Quality Assurance-QA:
It is all the planned and systematic processes carried out to provide assurance that a higher education institution and/or education program/programs fully fulfill the quality/performance processes in line with the internal and external quality standards defined within the scope of European Quality Assurance Principles and Standards in Higher Education.

Qualification:
It is a degree, diploma, or certificate-type document issued by an authorized authority in print, confirming that the learning outcomes envisaged for that program have been achieved as a result of the successful completion of a valid higher education program.

Learning Outcomes:
It is the expression of what the learner will know, understand and be able to do after the completion of a learning process.

Credit:
It is a numeric expression of the learning volume, depending on the achievement of the learning outcomes and the associated workload. With regard to ECTS, credit is the time-dependent measure of student workload.

Workload:
Lectures, seminars, presentations, practices, tutoring, information gathering, research, etc. that may be required to achieve the learning outcomes. It is a quantitative measure of learning activities.

European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System-ECTS:
It is a credit system in which the time spent by the learner (workload) is accepted as 60 credits and the courses are credited in order to increase the transparency of education systems with credit transfer between European countries, to facilitate student mobility, and to achieve the targeted learning outcomes from a curriculum in general within an academic year.

Diploma Supplement-DS:
It is a document that is given in addition to the diplomas of graduates of a higher education program within the framework of a model developed by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and UNESCO/CEPES in order to facilitate international transparency and the recognition of academic and professional qualifications, and gives information about the quality, level, content, and scope of the graduated program.