My question was about the concept of profile. Our Ministry of Education and Culture means by profiling that higher eduation institutions must focus their broad activities to be rather narrow in the future. They believe that a narrow focus could lead to larger research groups, higher quality and international reputation.
The concept of profiling is similar to the branding of a HE. There are several articles on branding of HE or Universities.Look them up in Proquest or JSTOR or Google Scholar.