general assembly – october 2008 - prague state of the unica president’s report 2007-2008
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General Assembly – October 2008 - Prague
State of the UNICA
President’s Report 2007-2008
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• Internationalisation & Mobility
• Education
• Research & Development
• Policy & Strategy
• Mission & Link with Society
• Other UNICA Activities
• Conclusions
Introduction
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Internationalisation & Mobility
• IRO Meeting, Paris, April
• Student Conference 2008, Warsaw, September
• 4th UNICA Chair on Multilingualism, Lausanne
• UNICA Secretariat traineeship
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Education
• 7th & 8th Bologna Lab Coordinators Meeting, Zagreb (December) and Dubrovnik (July)
• Erasmus Mundus Project “European Campus: Enhancing Overseas Student Mobility”
• Submission of “Be-twin ECTS/ECVET project”
• Running EC Projects
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Research & Development
• EU Research Officers Seminar, Cyprus, Nov. 2008• PhD Seminar: “Enterprise-University Partnership in
Doctoral Education”, Paris, June• Meeting to prepare a Workshop for Advisors and
Directors of Doctoral Programmes, Paris, July• UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition for Students
and Young Researchers, 2009
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Policy & Strategy
• UNICA Policy Statement
• Rector’s Seminar, Moscow (November) and Dubrovnik (July)
• Meeting with EC on Equal Opportunities, June
• “Minimum Standards” Recommendations
• Participation Chart 2008
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Participation Chart 2008
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Policy & Strategy
• 4th Scholarly Communication Seminar: “Partnership in Academic Excellence”, Prague, May
• Visit to Imperial College London and University College London
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Mission & Link with Society
• Enchancing the partnership with the UCEU Network:
– Meeting with UCEU– Participation in the UCEU Annual General Assembly
• Curriculum Development: – Euromaster in Urban Studies– Cognitive Sciences Master
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Other UNICA Activities
• Collective Associate Membership at the EUA
• Meetings for further Cooperation:– European Association of Conservatories– Welsh Higher Education Brussels representatives, …
• Articles on UNICA EC Projects
• Publications:– 4 UNICA e-newsletter– UNICA New office leaflet– Website: creation of PRIUM, HE Reform II and Tempus IV
web pages, creation of the Virtual Community of Bologna Experts
– Wikipedia
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Conclusions
• Most of the UNICA scheduled activities of the Work Programme 2008 were achieved
• Moreover, new initiatives were taken
• Thanks to the EC funded projects the visibility and credibility of the Network in the EHEA have highly increased
• UNICA has really been a platform for exchange of best practices (academic and administrative) for member universities
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Thanks to all UNICA members for their contribution to the Work Programme
Thanks to the UNICA contact persons
Thanks to the UNICA secretariat