[OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space

[Paul Nunesdea via OSList]

A blessing Artur!
I have engaged with one of EU DGs the DG Connect and talked extensively about the need for opening space in their events.
Who knows they are talking to each other?
Best
Paul 

From my iPhone

> On 15/8/2015, at 17:00, Artur Silva via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Good morning Open Spacers:
> I have received from a friend this mail that announces a “Higher Education Open Space” organized by the European Union. He sent me this happy because EU was adopting Open Space and he expected me to be happy with that.
> Here is the mail I have received:
> « Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space
> The Higher Education Open Space (HEOS) 2015, following up the Council's communiqué after Yerevan will provide universities, students and stakeholder representatives an open, innovative and creative space for discussion on joint approaches to face these challenges. It also aims to contribute in a concrete way to the modernisation of higher education and to build alliances to reinforce the competitiveness and governance of European universities. It will allow for policy discussions and practical working sessions through two main events: a conference on the 3rd of November on how to reach 20% of student mobility by 2020 while maintaining the quality of mobility flows; an Open Space on the 4th-5th of November addressing topical issues of universities, students and stakeholders in the field of the modernisation agenda. Register until 30 September 2015! » (end of the mail)
> If one looks to the Program (http://uni-foundation.eu/higher-education-open-space/conference) one finds the Agenda below (after my signature).
> There are a lot of speakers all the time!!! But even the sessions that could be "open" are like this:
> 1) The session on ”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 “Group Discussion” (14:00 - 15:00) has 4 predefined subjects:
> ·         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 questions are:
> -       Is this Open Space?
> -       What is the concept of "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 from European people more close to the center of Europe (somewhere in the line from Brussels to Berlin…)
> Regards and have a nice week end
>  
> Artur
> (From Portugal, in the Southwest of Europe - or is it in the North of Africa? See the map bellow...)
>  
> ----------------
> 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 mobility while intensifying their mobility flows
> Speaker: Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo, President of the European University Foundation
> ·         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 student mobility
> ·         The automatic recognition of studies abroad
> Speaker: Prof. Christoph Ehmann, Secretary-General of the European University Foundation
> ·         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 its impact on society
> ·         Prof. Georg Winckler, former Rector of the University of Vienna and former President of the EUA
> ·         Prof. Éric Froment, former President of the University Lumière Lyon 2 and former President of the EUA
> 17:00 - 17:30: Closing session
>  
> Attachment 2
> Map – Portugal in the world (and Azores as part of Portugal)…
> 
> https://www.google.pt/search?q=world+map+portugal&biw=1312&bih=921&tbm=isch&imgil=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%253BCFLWhrA_yxek_M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.hasslberger.com%25252Fterceira%25252Fpages%25252Fmap-terceira.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%252CCFLWhrA_yxek_M%252C_&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D#imgrc=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%3A&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D
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