Bled, Slovenia, 17 October 2019
The engaged university. Linking the global and the local
Theme
This year’s conference of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) will be organised in partnership with the Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programmes (CMEPIUS) in Bled, Slovenia. The conference is expected to draw an audience of 150 – 200, including central actors and decision-makers from universities and colleges, as well as practitioners and policy-makers from government departments, international institutions, non-governmental organisations and think tanks.
More details about the theme, target audience and format HERE.
Programme
16 October 2019
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Day 1
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| 08:45 | Registration opens |
| 09:15 | Welcome Alenka Flander, Director, CMEPIUS Ulrich Grothus, President, ACA |
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09:30 |
Opening keynote Towards a socially responsible university: balancing the global with the local Josep M. Vilalta, Executive Secretary, Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) and Director, Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona |
| Session 1: Local impact of global activities |
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| 10:05 | The economic effects of Erasmus+ mobilities in Slovenia and Austria Jan Kluge, Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
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How the global changes the local: the international classroom Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans, Honorary Senior Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University |
| 11:05 | Coffee break |
| Session 2: Local engagement |
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11:30 |
Civic engagement and active citizenship as core elements in an institution’s mission (linked to Europe engage project) Lorraine Mcllrath, Dr. / Director of the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland |
| 12:00 | Europe engage: service learning as part of civic engagement Pilar Aramburuzabala, Director of the European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain |
| 12:30 | The FabLab and the “the digital innovation hub Slovenia” Emilija Stojmenova, Assistant Professor and FabLab Network Slovenia Coordinator, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Jernej Pikalo, Minister of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia |
| 14:30 | The role of universities in regional innovation ecosystems Sybille Reichert, Director, Reichert Consulting, Bamberg/Berlin |
| 15:00 | Social responsibility: the Aurora Universities Network Kees Kouwenaar, Secretary General of Aurora Universities Network, Amsterdam |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Diversity Daniel Hurley, Policy Manager, Universities UK, London |
| 16:30 | Europe’s universities: driven by (which) values? Ulrich Grothus, ACA President |
| 17:00 | End of day I |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner (19:00 to 21:30) at Avsenik restaurant |
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| 09:15 | Ethical internationalisation and the Global Dialogue Declaration Laura Rumbley, Associate Director, Knowledge Development & Research, EAIE, Amsterdam |
| Session 3: Preparing joint projects |
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Parallel sessions to discuss and design future international projects in the following areas: – learning and teaching, Sabina Sägi (Archimedes), Urška Šraj (CMEPIUS) |
| 11:45 | Coffee break |
| 12:10 | Short reports from the parallel sessions |
| 12:30 | What have we learned in the last two days? Pavel Zgaga, Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Ljubljana, and former Minister of Education of the Republic of Slovenia |
| 13:00 | Farewell and lunch |