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Welcome Addresses

• António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Rector, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• António Carmona Rodrigues, Mayor of Lisbon, Portugal
• Georg Winckler, EUA President
• José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal

Plenary Session I

Key Note Speeches - the Future of Higher Education beyond 2010

• Ján Figel', European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth
• David Ward, President of the American Council on Education
• Zhang Xinsheng, Deputy Minister of Education, People's Republic of China

Plenary Session II

Trends in Higher Education from the Perspective of Institutions: Key Messages from Trends V

• David Crosier and Lewis Purser, EUA
  
  • Presentation
  • Trends V Executive Summary

Plenary Session III

ERC: Strengthening Frontier Research in Europe's Universities

• Fotis Kafatos, President of the European Research Council (ERC); Chair of the Scientific Council of the ERC

Working Group Session

Theme 1: Implementing Bologna and creating the European Higher Education Area

• Bruno Carapinha, ESIB
• Ivan Ostrovsky, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Volker Gehmlich, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Nina Gustafsson Ǻberg, ESIB

Theme 2: Policies for enhancing research and innovation

• Sybille Reichert, Reichert Consulting, Switzerland
• Martin Kropff, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Tatjana Volkova, Banking Institutions of Higher Education, Latvia
• Petr Fiala, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
• Stephen Hagen, University of West of England, United Kingdom

Theme 3: The responsibility of Europe's universities in a global environment

• Eva Egron-Polak, International Association of Universities
• Sharifa, Hapsah, University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia
• Pascal Level, University of Valenciennes, France
• Luc Weber, Council of Europe

Theme 4: Enhancing quality and creativity

• Johannes Johansson, Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden
• Jacques Lanarès, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Karin Riegler, EUA
• Lee Harvey, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Theme 5: Funding European universities: diversification, transparency and good governance

• Jaak Aaviksoo, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Lothar Zechlin, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Freddy Coignoul, University of Liège, Belgium
• Robin Farquhar, Carleton University, Canada

Session on EUA Institutional Development Activities

• Christina Ullenius, EUA Vice-President, Henrik Toft Jensen, Chair of the Institutional Evaluation Programme (EUA) and Andrée Sursock, Deputy Secretary General of EUA

Plenary Session IV

Future Directions for Higher Education and Research - Institutional Perspectives: a Debate

• Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, Central European University, Hungary
• John Brooks, Vice-Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Koen Geven, ESIB President
• Rodrigo Costa, Vice-President, Portugal Telecom

Plenary Session V

Main Results and Recommendations from the Working Groups

• Theme 1: Patricia Pol, University Paris 12 Val de Marne, France
• Theme 2: Giuseppe Silvestri, University of Palermo, Italy
• Theme 3: Stefan Hormuth, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
• Theme 4: Maria Helena Nazaré, University of Alveiro, Portugal
• Theme 5 (funding): Sijbolt Noorda, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Theme 5 (governance): Lothar Zechlin, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Plenary Session VI

EUA Convention 2007 - Preliminary Conclusions

• Sir Roderick Floud, EUA Vice-President

Closing Ceremony

• Closing address by José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
• Concluding remarks by Prof. Georg Winckler, EUA President