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Pre-conference meetings

On Thursday, 1 April:

  • BOARD MEETING
  • SECRETARIES GENERAL MEETING
  • COUNCIL MEETING
  • WORKING GROUP CHAIRS' BRIEFING SESSION

These meetings are by invitation only, restricted to Board and Council Members and to the Secretaries General of National Rectors' Conferences.

Thursday, 1 April
 
Board meeting
 
09.00 - 11.30EUA Board Meeting
12.00 - 13.00Board lunch
 
 
 
Secretaries General meeting
 
09.00 - 10.30Meeting of the Secretaries General - Part I
10.30 - 11.00Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00Meeting of the Secretaries General - Part II
12.00 - 13.00Lunch
 
 
 
Council meeting
 
13.00 - 15.00EUA Council Meeting - Part I
15.00 - 15.30Coffee break
15.30 - 18.00EUA Council Meeting - Part II
 
 
 
Working Group Chairs' Briefing Session
 
18.15 - 19.00Working Group Chairs' briefing session
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For all conference participants and companions:
 
19.00 - 21.00Welcome buffet reception in the "Salon Eugénie" in the "Palais du Pharo", hosted by Michel Laurent, President, Université de la Méditerranée
 
 

 

 

Preliminary conference programme and
EUA Annual General Assembly

The registration desk for the conference participants will be open as follows:

Location:
Thursday 1 April8.00 - 19.00Marseille Provence Métropole (MPM) Building
(entrance hall)
Jardin du Pharo - 58, Boulevard Charles Livon
F - 13007 Marseille
Friday     2 April8.00 - 19.00
Saturday 3 April8.30 - 17.00
  • Plenary sessions and lunches on Friday & Saturday will be held at the MPM Building
  • Working group sessions on Friday & Saturday will be held at the MPM Building AND the "Université de la Méditerranée"

 

Friday, 2 April
 
For all conference participants:
 
09.00 - 11.00OPENING CEREMONY & PLENARY SESSION I

Chair: Eric Froment, EUA President
Welcome addresses:
- National and/or regional authorities
- Michel Laurent, President, Université de la Méditerranée

1st Keynote speech:
Universities and their regions: A comparative analysis
John Goddard, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom

Respondents:
- from industry: Alain Mérieux, President, BioMérieux SA, France
- from universities: Frans van Vught, Rector, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 
11.00 - 11.30Coffee break
 
11.30 - 12.30PLENARY SESSION II
followed by questions from the floor

Chair: Roderick Floud, Vice-Chancellor, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

2nd Keynote speech:
Adapting university structures to respond to societal needs
Jean-Pierre Contzen, Chair Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal and Chairman, Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan

3rd Keynote speech:
Employability: A European comparative perspective
Ulrich Teichler, Director, Centre for Research on Higher Education and Work, Universität Kassel, Germany
 
12.30 - 14.00Lunch
 
 
 
For Representatives of French universities:
 
12.30 - 13.30Lunch meeting with Representatives of French universities, EUA President, Board and Secretariat members
Presentation of EUA recent activities and discussions on the Bologna process and European research area. This meeting is open to all French universities, members or non members of EUA.
 
 
 
For all conference participants:
 
14.00 - 15.30WORKING GROUPS, SESSION I
Establishing strategic priorities

Aim: On the basis of six different institutional case studies presented by university leaders working in different contexts across Europe, the objective is to discuss how to establish strategic priorities at local level and how to articulate these priorities with the need to also work at European and international level.

Working Groups, Chairs and Case Studies:

  1. Robert Cormack, Principal, UHI Millennium Institute ("University of the Highlands and Islands"), Scotland, United Kingdom
  2. Maria Helena Vaz de Carvalho Nazaré, Rector, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
  3. Zdzislaw Latajka, Rector, University of Wroclaw, Poland
  4. Michel Kasbarian, President, Université Euro-Méditerranéenne Téthys, France
    (Discussions will be held in French in this working group)
    Contributors: Giulio Relini, Sélim Abou, Tuomo Melasuo
  5. Fuada Stankovic, Rector, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
  6. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, President, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

15.30 - 16.00Coffee break
 
 
 
For EUA members only
(observers can sit at the back of the conference room):
 
16.00 - 18.00EUA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
 
 
 
For all conference participants and companions:
 
20.30Gala Dinner in the Grand Hall of the "Palais de la Bourse"
(Marseille-Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
 
 

 

Saturday, 3 April
 
For all conference participants:
 
09.00 - 10.30WORKING GROUPS, SESSION II

Aim: This session will examine issues of university governance and leadership, links to the local community, and regional partnerships. The group chairs will remain the same, and discussions will begin with a presentation by the rapporteur of the conclusions of the previous day's discussions.

There will be two groups looking at each of the following three broad themes:

  1. Gaining external and internal support: the involvement of external stakeholders in university decision making processes, instruments and incentives to motivate the academic community (WG 1.a. will be held in French)
    (WG 1.a.: Michel Kasbarian,
     WG 1.b.: Johann-Dietrich Wörner)
  2. Responding to specific local needs: striking a balance between basic and applied research, using universities resources as a community asset
    (WG 2.a.: Maria Helena Vaz de Carvalho Nazaré,
     WG 2.b.: Zdzislaw Latajka)
  3. Creating a vibrant regional community: Strategic partnerships with neighbouring higher education institutions, research institutes, and industry
    (WG 3.a.: Robert Cormack,
     WG 3.b.: Fuada Stankovic)

10.30 - 11.00Coffee break
 
11.00 - 13.00PLENARY SESSION III & CONFERENCE CLOSING CEREMONY

Chair: Eric Froment, EUA President
Presentation of WG conclusions and recommendations by the WG chairs

Respondents:
- Johan Almqvist, President, ESIB (The National Unions of Students in Europe)
- Jean-Jacques Mertens, Associate Director and Head of Division Extractive & Process Industries, Life Sciences, Research, EIB (The European Investment Bank), Luxembourg
- Jean-Marc Monteil, Director, Higher Education Division, French Ministry of Youth, Education and Research
- Maria Rimini-Döring, Corporate Research, Information and System Technologies, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
 
13.00 - 14.30Lunch
 
 

 

 

Post-conference meeting

Saturday, 3 April
 
13.00 - 14.45QA Alumni Forum
(lunch meeting for all the institutions that have been evaluated in the framework of the EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme)
 
European University Association
13, Rue d'Egmont - B-1000 Brussels
Tel.: +32-2-2305544
Fax: +32-2-2305751
e-mail: info@eua.be
www.eua.be		 Conference Office
Atout Organisation Science
Village d'entreprises St Henri
Rue Anne Gacon - Bât. 24
F-13016 Marseille
Tel.: +33-4-96151250
Fax: +33-4-96151251
e-mail: eua@atout-org.com
www.atout-org.com		 Université de la Méditerranée
Jardin du Pharo
58, Boulevard Charles Livon
F-13007 Marseille
 
www.mediterranee.univ-mrs.fr