Conference Programme

Monday, 17 October 2011

• 13.00 – 14.00 Registration of the participants and Welcome coffee - Foyer 1^st Floor
• 14.00 – 15.10 Welcome Addresses - Room: Ronda Hall - 1^st Floor
• Daniel Petru FUNERIU, Minister for Education, Research, Youth and Sports, Romania
• Alain BERETZ, President of the University of Strasbourg, France (pdf)
• Georg WINCKLER, Former rector of the University of Vienna, Austria
• 15.10 - 15.25 Introductions to the conference - Room: Ronda Hall - 1^st Floor
• Adrian CURAJ, General Director, UEFISCDI
• 15.25 - 15.45 Coffee break
• 15.45 - 18:30 Overview thematic papers presentation - Room: Ronda Hall - 1^st Floor
• Presented by the thematic coordinators
• Pavel Zgaga - EHEA Principles(pdf)
• Andrée Sursock - Quality assurance(pdf)
• Sybille Reichert - Diversity(pdf)
• Ziauddin Sardar - Foresight/HE Futures
• Peter van der Hijden - Mobility
• Hanne Smidt - Teaching and learning(pdf)
• Liviu Matei - Financing (pdf)
• Pedro Teixera & Robin Middlehurst - Governance (pdf)
• 18.30 - 21:00 Welcome cocktail and dinner - Foyer, 21^st Floor

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

• 09.00 – 10.30 Paper Presentations - 1^st Session
• • EHEA Principles - Room: Opera Hall - 2^nd Floor
• Pavel Zgaga - Reconsidering the EHEA Principles: Is there a "Bologna Philosophy"?(pdf)
• Anne Corbett - Principles, problems, politics…What does the historical record of EU cooperation in higher education tell the EHEA generation(pdf)
• Susan Robertson - Chair
• Ulrich Teichler – Respondent
• • Quality assurance - Room: Fortuna West - 21^st Floor
• Achim Hopbach - External quality assurance at national level and its links to the European level(pdf)
• Jeremy Cox - Many voices, one song: the role of Europe-wide evaluation tools in emphasising enhancement and promoting the modernisation agenda of the EHEA(pdf)
• Henrik Toft Jensen – Chair and Respondent
• • Diversity - Room: Fortuna East - 21^st Floor
• Ellen Hazelkorn - Everyone wants to be like Harvard" - or do they? Cherishing all Missions Equally (pdf)
• Liviu Andreescu and Viorel Proteasa- Institutional Diversification and Homogeneity in Romanian Higher Education: The Larger Picture (pdf)
• Sybille Reichert - Chair
• Ana Maria Sandi - Respondent (pdf)
• • Foresight/ HE Futures - Room: Rapsodia - 1^st Floor
• Ziauddin Sardar - Transmodern journeys: Future studies and Higher Education
• Attila Havas - Multiple futures for higher education in a multi-level structure (pdf)
• Radu Gheorghiu – Systemic Foresight for Romanian Higher Education (pdf)
• Ziauddin Sardar - Chair
• Fabrice Roubelat - Respondent
• Jordi Serra del Pino –Respondent
• Jim Dator –Respondent
• Mert Bilgin –Respondent
• 10.30 – 10.50 Coffee break
• 10.50 – 12.20 Paper presentations - 2nd Session
• • Mobility
• Irina Ferencz - Student Mobility in Europe. Recent trends and implications of data collection (pdf)
• Chripa Schneller - The offspring of a mobile generation: students with an immigrant background in higher education (pdf)
• Ulrich Teichler - Student Mobility in Europe:The Information V of Official Statistics and Graduate Surveys
• Avril Keating - Chair and Respondent
• Michael Gaebel - Respondent
• • Teaching and learning - Room: Fortuna West - 21^st Floor
• Koen Geven - Time for Student Centered Learning (pdf)
• Dominic Orr - Widening access to higher education – What can EUROSTUDENT say about the new challenges emerging for teaching and learning? (pdf)
• Michael Hörig - Chair
• Robert Santa/Alex Usher – Respondents
• • Financing - Room: Fortuna East - 21^st Floor
• Liviu Matei - A policy gap: funding in the European Higher Education Area a (pdf)
• Kata Orosz - Accountability and the public funding of higher education: A comparison of state policies, stakeholder views and institutional responses in the US and Europe (pdf)
• Julia Iwinska - Chair and Respondent
• • Governance - Room: Rapsodia - 1^st Floor
• Harry de Boer - A cross national comparison of Higher education’s markets in Western Europe (pdf)
• Catherine Paradeise - How much do new patterns of University governance can contribute to the emergence of World class universities in Europe? (pdf)
• Robin Middlehurst – Chair
• Roberto Moscati – Respondent
• Pedro Teixeira - Respondent
• 12.20 – 13.20 Lunch - Room: Ronda Hall - 1^st Floor
• 13.20 – 14.50 Paper Presentations 3rd Session
• • EHEA Principles - Room: Opera Hall - 2^nd Floor
• Terhi Nokkala - Institutional autonomy and the attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area – facts or tokenistic discourse?(pdf)
• Elsa Hackl - Tensions in the European Higher Education Area? Public good and public responsibility versus Directive 2006/123/EC Social Dimension versus Diversity(pdf)
• John Brennan - Chair
• Janja Komljenovic – Respondent(pdf)
• Cornelia Racke - Respondent
• • Quality assurance - Room: Fortuna West - 21^st Floor
• Tia Loukkola - A snapshot on the internal quality assurance in EHEA (pdf)
• Mihai Paunescu – Internalizing quality assurance in higher education: challenges of transition in enhancing the institutional responsibility for quality (pdf)
• Oliver Vettori – Chair and Respondent
• • Diversity - Room: Fortuna East - 21^st Floor
• Frans Kaiser - U-Map, University activity profiles in practice(pdf)
• Ole-Jacob Skodvin - How to Measure Institutional Profiles in the Norwegian Higher Education Landscape(pdf)
• Sybille Reichert - Chair
• • Foresight/ HE Futures - Room: Rapsodia - 1^st Floor
• Dan Grosu - Three Models for Developing Foresight Exercises in Universities'
• Jennifer M. Gidley (presenter Ziauddin Sardar) - Re-imagining the Role and Function of Higher Education for Alternative Futures through Embracing New Ways of Knowing
• Vinay Lal - The Politics and Consequences of Eurocentrism in University Disciplines
• Riel Miller – Chair and respondent
• Mihaela Ghisa – Respondent
• Joshua Castellino – Respondent
• Helene von Reibnitz– Respondent
• 14.50 – 15.10 Coffee break
• 15.10 – 16.40 Paper Presentations 4th Session
• • Mobility - Room: Opera Hall - 2^nd Floor
• Hans de Wit - Student mobility between Europe and the rest of the world: trends, issues and challenges (pdf)
• Sacha Garben - Student Mobility in the EU - Recent Case Law, Reflections and Recommendations
• Anne Pieter van der Mei - Chair and Respondent
• Eliot Sorel - Respondent
• • Teaching and learning - Room: Fortuna West - 21^st Floor
• Åsa Lindberg-Sand - Has the past decade of higher education reform changed the curricula of higher education degrees and made students’ qualifications useful and reliable? (pdf)
• Michael Huber - Mobility, ECTS and Grading A common currency and the emergence of local conversion rates (pdf)
• Robert Santa - Chair
• Alex Usher/Michael Hörig - Respondents
• • Financing - Room: Fortuna East - 21^st Floor
• Enora Bennetot Pruvot - European universities diversifying income streams (pdf)
• Marcel Gérard - Who is to pay for mobile students? (pdf)
• Dominic Orr – Chair and Respondent
• Magnus Malnes – Chair and Respondent< /li>
• • Governance - Room: Rapsodia - 1^st Floor
• Roberto Moscati - University governance in changing European systems of higher education (pdf)
• Hans Pechar - The decline of the academic oligarchy? (pdf)
• Alberto Amaral – Chair
• Catherine Paradeise – Respondent
• Robin Middlehurst – Respondent
• 16.40 – 17.00 Coffee break
• 17.00 – 18.30 Paper Presentations - 5th Session:
• • EHEA Principles - Room: Opera Hall - 2^nd Floor
• Marina Elias Andreu - Implications of the Bologna Process for equity in higher education(pdf)
• Klemen Miklavič - Bologna Process in the Confrontation between Academic Values and Commodification of Higher Education(pdf)
• Pavel Zgaga - Chair
• John Brennan - Respondent
• Susan Robertson - Respondent
• • Quality assurance - Room: Fortuna Hall - 21^st Floor
• Ellen Hazelkorn - European “Transparency Instruments”: Driving the Modernisation of European Higher Education (pdf)
• Fernando Miguel Galán Palomares - Consequences of Student Participation in Quality Assurance(pdf)
• Janja Komljenovic – Chair and Respondent (pdf)
• Allan Päll - Respondent (pdf)
• • Diversity - Room: Fortuna East - 21^st Floor
• Ulrich Teichler - Diversity of Higher Education in Europe and the Findings of a Comparative Study of the Academic Profession
• Sybille Reichert - Chair
• Catherine Paradeise -Respondent(pdf)
• • Foresight/ HE Futures - Room: Rapsodia - 1^st Floor
• Eddie Blass - Is Bologna Sustainable in the Future? Future testing the Bologna principles
• Philine Warnke - Innovations Futures and their Implications for Higher Education Fraunhofer ISI (pdf)
• Peter Bishop - Chair and respondent
• Roumiana Gotseva - Respondent
• End of Conference day
• 19.30 – 21.30 Dinner - Room: Ronda Hall - 1^st Floor

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

• 09.00 – 10:30 Paper Presentations 6th Session
• • Mobility - Room: Opera Hall - 2^nd Floor
• Hugo Horta - The PhD in Europe: Developing a System that will Increase the Internationalisation of Universities through Mobility (pdf)
• Peter van der Hijden - Mobility key to the EHEA and ERA
• Snezana Krstic – Respondent
• Koen Geven – Chair and Respondent
• • Teaching and learning - Room: Fortuna West - 21^st Floor
• Kai Muehleck - On the Tracks of Students and Graduates: Methods and uses of Tracking Procedures in European Higher Education
• Melink Mateja - Future Developmental Needs of HE System: Disciplinary Analysis from Slovenian Case
• Alex Usher - Chair
• Michael Hörig- Respondent
• Robert Santa - Respondent
• • Financing - Room: Fortuna East - 21^st Floor
• James Powell - Leadership, Entrepreneurialism and Financing for Improved Academic Enterprise in Higher Education, Europe in a Global Perspective (pdf)
• Adrian Miroiu - Relating Quality and Funding. An Institutionalist Analysis of the Romanian Case (pdf)
• Pusa Nastase – Chair and Respondent
• Renata Kralikova – Chair and Respondent
• • Governance - Room: Rapsodia - 1^st Floor
• Manja Klemenčič - The Changing Conceptions of Student Participation in Higher Education Governance in the Framework of the Bologna Process/EHEA (pdf)
• Alberto Amaral - Higher Education Reforms in Europe: a Comparative Perspective of New Legal Frameworks in Europe (pdf)
• Pedro Teixeira – Chair
• Hans Pechar - Respondent
• Harry de Boer – Respondent
• 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
• 11.00 – 13:00 Final report - Room: Ronda Hall - 1^st Floor
• Presented by Peter Scott (General Rapporteur) (pdf)
• Concluding panel with the thematic coordinators and the General Rapporteur
• Discussions
• 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

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