[OSList] Higher Education Open Space organized by the EU

Artur Silva via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Sat Aug 15 09:11:03 PDT 2015


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?)

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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


 
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Map – Portugal in theworld (and Açores/Azores in Portugal)…



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