Wednesday, 29 January 2020
14:30-15:30
Registration of the participants and Welcome coffee
15:30-16:00
Welcome Addresses
- Adrian Curaj, General Director, UEFISCDI
- Representative of the Ministry of Education and Research, Romania
16:00-18:00
Opening plenary
- Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth (TBC)
- Pam Fredman, International Association of Universities
- Lesley Wilson, former Secretary General, European University Association
- Pavel Zgaga, Director of Centre for Educational Policy Studies, University of Ljubljana
- Barbara Weitgruber, Director-General for Scientific Research and International Relations, Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research
18:30
Welcome cocktail and dinner
Thursday, 30 January 2020
University Politehnica of Bucharest
09:30-10:00
Introduction to the Conference
- Mihnea Costoiu, Rector, University Politehnica of Bucharest
- Universities representatives (TBC)
10:00-11:15
Introduction to the thematic sessions
- Hans de Wit, Ligia Deca – Furthering the internationalization of higher education: particular challenges in the EHEA
- David Crosier, Cezar Hâj – Access and success for every learner in higher education
- Romiță Iucu, Therese Zhang – Advancing learning and teaching in the EHEA: innovation, links with research, and cooperation with the ERA
- Liviu Matei, Sjur Bergan – The future of the EHEA – principles, challenges and ways forward
- Dominic Orr, Adrian Curaj – Bologna Process in the global higher education arena. Going digital?
11:15-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:30
Paper presentations and debates I (parallel sessions)
13:30-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:30
Paper presentations and debates II (parallel sessions)
19:00
Dinner
09:30-11:30
Paper presentations and debates III (parallel sessions)
11:30-11:45
Coffee break
11:45-13:00
Conclusions of the conference (General Rapporteur)
Discussions. Q&A session
13:00
Lunch
* Each parallel session will include two/three papers presented by authors and a Q&A Session for each paper