Good morning OpenSpacers: I have received from afriend this mail that announces a “Higher Education Open Space” organized bythe European Union. He sent this to me, I think, because EU was adopting "Open Space" andhe expected me to be happy with that.
Here is the mail I havereceived: Campus Europe Higher Education Open Space The HigherEducation Open Space (HEOS) 2015,following up the Council's communiqué after Yerevan willprovide universities, students and stakeholder representatives an open,innovative and creative space for discussion on joint approaches to facethese challenges. It also aims to contribute in a concrete way tothe modernisation of higher education and to buildalliances to reinforce the competitiveness and governance of Europeanuniversities. It will allow for policy discussions and practical workingsessions through two main events: a conference on the 3rd of Novemberon how to reach 20% of student mobility by 2020 while maintaining the qualityof mobility flows; an Open Space on the 4th-5th of November addressingtopical issues of universities, students and stakeholders in the field of the modernisation agenda. Registeruntil 30 September 2015! If one looks forthe Program (http://uni-foundation.eu/higher-education-open-space/conference)one finds the Agenda below (after my signature). There are a lotof speakers!!! But even in relation with the sessions that could be "open": 1) The sessionon ”Disruptive innovation in the field of student mobility” has 4 experts speaking about it(no students as far as I can see) 2) The session of “GroupDiscussion” (14:00 - 15:00) has 4 predefinedsubjects: · Funding strategies to increase exchanges · Length matters: 1 semester vs. 1 year abroad · Ad-hoc partnerships and international consortia · The increasing importance of QA and recognition of credits 3)The Round-table (15:30 - 17:00) has 2 speakers (Profs). So my questionsare: - Is this Open Space? - What is the conceptof "Open Space" of the European Union? - Did they get that name(Open Space) from OST facilitators from Europe or it was only the fact that “Open”is cool (and “Closed” is awful) and they don’t even know what OST is? I would like to have other opinions, especially fromEuropean facilitators more close to the center of Europe (somewhere in the line fromBrussels to Berlin…) Regards and have anice week end Artur (From Portugal, in theSouthwest of Europe - or is it in the North of Africa?) ---------------- Attachment 1 Agenda 09:00 - 09:30: Arrival and registration 09:30 - 10:30: Opening session · Opening speech · Keynote speaker on the renewed framework of ET 2020 Speaker: Representative of the European Commission, Directorate Education,Audiovisual and Culture · The challenges of universities to maintain quality in mobilitywhile intensifying their mobility flows Speaker: Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo, President of the European UniversityFoundation · The students’ perspective on the challenge of increasing mobility Speaker: Safi Sabuni, President of the Erasmus Student Network 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30: Disruptive innovation in the field of studentmobility · The automatic recognition of studies abroad Speaker: Prof. Christoph Ehmann, Secretary-General of the European UniversityFoundation · The Erasmus Without Papers network Speaker: Valère Meus, International Relations Expert of the Ghent University · Solving the challenge of fair grade conversion Speaker: Dr. Anthony Vickers, Bologna Expert, University of Essex · Towards 100% of student mobility Speaker: Prof. Éric Tschirhart, Vice-President of the University of Luxembourg 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch 14:00 - 15:00: Group discussions Increasing the quantity and quality of student mobility · Funding strategies to increase exchanges · Length matters: 1 semester vs. 1 year abroad · Ad-hoc partnerships and international consortia · The increasing importance of QA and recognition of credits 15:00 - 15:30: Coffee break 15:30 - 17:00: Round-table How universities can best reach 20% of student mobility and itsimpact on society · Prof. Georg Winckler, former Rector of the University of Viennaand former President of the EUA · Prof. Éric Froment, former President of the University LumièreLyon 2 and former President of the EUA 17:00- 17:30: Closing session Attachment 2 Map – Portugal in theworld (and Açores/Azores in Portugal)… world map portugal - Pesquisa Google | | | | | | | | | | | world map portugal - Pesquisa Googlehasslberger.com map with Portugal clearly 400 × 359 - 91k - jpg worldatlas.com Locator Map of Portugal 320 × 350 - 37k - gif euratlas.net Portugal 728 × 340 - 54k -... | | | | View on www.google.pt | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
_______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
