Diversities and Commonalities – the changing face of Europe’s universities
20 -23 October 2010, hosted by the University of Palermo, Italy
Preliminary Programme as of 18 October2010
PRE-CONFERENCE MEETINGS
The pre-conference meetings are by invitation only to EUA Board, EUA Council Members and Secretaries General of National Rectors’ Conferences.
Wednesday 20 October 2010
12.00 – 18.00 Registration for EUA Board and Secretaries General
Palazzo Steri
13.00 – 14.00 EUA Board Lunch
Palazzo Steri, Sala delle Armi
14.00 – 16.00 EUA Board Meeting
Palazzo Steri, Sala Carapezza
14.00 – 16.00 Secretaries General Meeting (I)
Palazzo Steri, Sala Magna
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
Palazzo Steri, Sala delle Armi
16.30 – 18.00 EUA Board meeting (II)
Palazzo Steri, Sala Carapezza
16.30 – 18.00 Secretaries General Meeting (II)
Palazzo Steri, Sala Magna
19.00 Welcome reception: EUA Board, SGs, Council
Oratorio dei Bianchi, via dello Spasimo
Thursday 21 October 2010
7.00 – 08.00 Registration for Council
Palazzo Steri
8.00 – 10.30 Council meeting (I)
Palazzo Steri, Sala Magna
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
Palazzo Steri, Sala delle Armi
11.00 – 12.30 Council meeting (II)
Palazzo Steri, Sala Magna
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch: EUA Board, SGs, Council
Palazzo dei Normanni
Hosted by the Government of Sicilian Region
13.15 – 14.00 Bus transportation to Faculty of Engineering
11.00 – 19.00 Registration for the Conference and the General Assembly
Faculty of Engineering, Vialle delle Scienze
14.00 – 15.00 EUA General Assembly (I)
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
15.00 – 16.00 EUA General Assembly (II)
Breakout sessions, Polo Didattico, Edificio 19
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
Polo Didattico, hallway
CONFERENCE
16.30 – 18.00 Opening Ceremony: Perspectives on the conference theme
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
Welcome addresses and introduction to the theme
o Roberto Lagalla, Rector, University of Palermo, Italy
o Raffaele Lombardo, President of Regione Siciliana
o Giovanni Avanti, President of the Province of Palermo
o Francesco Cascio, President of the Assemblea Regionale Siciliana
o Diego Cammarata, Mayor of Palermo
o Giovanni Puglisi, President of the «Fondazione Banco di Sicilia»
o Jean-Marc Rapp, EUA President, European University Association (EUA)
19.00 Concert and Welcome Reception
Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics and Complesso Didattico
Friday 22 October 2010
9.00 – 10.30 Plenary Session I:
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
Keynote speeches on the conference theme “diversities and commonalities – the changing face of Europe’s universities”
Chair: Jean-Marc Rapp, EUA President
o Alex Usher, President of Higher Education Strategy Associates (formerly known as EPI Canada) and
Editor-in-Chief of Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor
o Sybille Reichert, Director of Reichert Consulting for Higher Education, Switzerland, and author of the EUA report on Institutional Diversity in European Higher Education will provide reflections on the presentations.
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00 Working Group Sessions (I): Designing and implementing institutional strategies Polo Didattico, Edificio 19
The conference includes two sets of parallel working group sessions on the same themes but with different speakers presenting different case studies in relation to each theme, which will allow participants to choose to attend one of these sessions in the morning and another one in the afternoon.
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch and parallel meetings:
• European Women Rectors forum
• Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP)
• Consultation of EUA members on the future of the EU Mobility programmes post 2013
14.30 – 15.45 Plenary Session II: Diversity in Excellence:
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
Chair: David Drewry, EUA Board member, European University Association
o Bert Vandenkendelaere, Chair of European Students' Union (ESU), Belgium
o Tom Collins, President, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland
o Bernd Huber, President of Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany, and Chairman of LERU
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
Polo Didattico, hallway
16.15 – 17.45 Working Group Sessions (II): Designing and implementing institutional strategies
Polo Didattico, Edificio 19
The conference includes two sets of parallel working group sessions on the same themes but with different speakers presenting different case studies in relation to each theme, which will allow participants to choose to attend one of these sessions in the morning and another one in the afternoon.
19.30 – 22.00 Conference dinner
Castello Utveggio
Saturday 23 October 2010
09.00 – 10.30 Plenary Session III: Strengths of European diversity in a global context
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
Chair: Sijbolt Noorda, EUA Board member and President, VSNU, the Netherlands
o Clifford Adelman, Senior Associate with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), United States
o Brian O'Connell, Rector & Vice-Chancellor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
Polo Didattico, hallway
11.00 – 12.30 Plenary Session IV:
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
Chair: Jean-Marc Rapp, EUA President
o Report from the General Rapporteur Andrée Sursock, EUA Senior Adviser, on the outcomes of the WGs
o Key Note speech from Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism
and Youth, European Commission: “The growing diversity of European higher education (diversity of
institutional, staff and student as well as research profiles) – implications for the further development
of the Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education”.
12.30 – 13.00 Closing Ceremony
Faculty of Engineering, Sala Magna
o Roberto Lagalla, Rector, University of Palermo, Italy
o Jean-Marc Rapp, EUA President
o Invitation to EUA Annual Conference 2011 in Aarhus, Denmark by Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Rector, University of Aarhus, Denmark
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - Optional Social Programme