Programme

Welcome reception

The welcome reception will take place at Villa Prešeren (Veslaška promenada 14, 4260 Bled), on 16 October 2019 from 18:00 to 19:00

Registration opens

Welcome

Alenka Flander, Director, CMEPIUS

Ulrich Grothus, President, ACA

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

The economic effects of Erasmus+ mobilities in Slovenia and Austria

Jan Kluge, Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna

How the global changes the local: the international classroom

Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans, Honorary Senior Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University

Coffee break

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

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

The FabLab and the “the digital innovation hub Slovenia”

Emilija Stojmenova, Assistant Professor and FabLab Network Slovenia Coordinator, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Lunch

Jernej Pikalo, Minister of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia 

The role of universities in regional innovation ecosystems

Sybille Reichert, Director, Reichert Consulting, Bamberg/Berlin

Social responsibility: the Aurora Universities Network 

Kees Kouwenaar, Secretary General of Aurora Universities Network, Amsterdam

Coffee break

Diversity

Daniel Hurley, Policy Manager, Universities UK, London 

Europe’s universities: driven by (which) values?

Ulrich Grothus, ACA President

End of day I

Conference dinner (19:00 to 21:30) at Avsenik restaurant

Ethical internationalisation and the Global Dialogue Declaration

Laura Rumbley, Associate Director, Knowledge Development & Research, EAIE, Amsterdam

Parallel sessions to discuss and design future international projects in the following areas:

- learning and teaching, Sabina Sägi (Archimedes), Urška Šraj (CMEPIUS)
- knowledge exchange, Božidar Grigić (CMEPIUS), Christofer Carlsson (Swedish Council for HE)
- social responsibility, Robert Marinšek and Jelena Štrbac Nemec (both CMEPIUS)

Coffee break

Short reports from the parallel sessions

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

Farewell and lunch