[OSList] Higher Education Open Space organized by the EU

Sun Aug 16 07:03:31 PDT 2015

my guess ? they sit in a circle between 5pm and 5:30pm and use a talking stick... !

for the rest of the day, i agree with you Artur, the space that is supposed to be open, looks quite full of experts :)
thanks for the post, very interesting, warm thoughts, Béatrice

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> Message du 15/08/15 18:11
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Good morning Open Spacers:
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I have received from a friend this mail that announces a “Higher Education Open Space” organized by the European Union. He sent this to me, I think, because EU was adopting "Open Space" and he expected me to be happy with that.
Here is the mail I have received:
Campus Europe 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!
If one looks for 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!!! But even in relation with the sessions that could be "open": 
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

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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 facilitators 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?)

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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 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 Açores/Azores in Portugal)…

world map portugal - Pesquisa Google

world map portugal - Pesquisa Google
hasslberger.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 -...

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