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Meet the University of the Greater Region. Together for the Europe of tomorrow…
Sofia, 24th October 2011
Programme
11:30 How to create a European consortium of universities : best practices and governance structuresby Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber, President of Saarland University
Best practices in double-degree Masters and PhDs by Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach, President of the University of Luxembourg
How to create joint research projects with Bulgarian partners through exchange of young researchers and post-docsby Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Finance, President of the University Henri Poincaré (Nancy I)
Closing Speech by Prof. Dr. Bernard Rentier, Rector of the University of Liège
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11:00 Welcoming speech by Prof. Dr. Ivan Ilchev, Rector of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski”
11:10 Presentation of the “University of the Greater Region” consortiumby Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel, President of the University of Trier and Prof. Dr. Helmut J. Schmidt, President of the University of Kaiserslautern
The University of the Greater RegionPresentation of the consortium
Sofia, 24th October 2011
The Greater Region: A cross-border region in the heart of Europe
3 languages, 4 countries Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate in
Germany the Belgian Walloon region with its
French and German speaking communities
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg the French region of Lorraine A historical and cosmopolitan area A European crossroad of economic,
political and cultural life
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Germany Saarland University University of Trier University of Kaiserslautern
Belgium University of Liège
Luxembourg University of Luxembourg
France Universities of Metz and Nancy
(= University of Lorraine)
The University of the Greater Region:Members of the University Consortium
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The University of the Greater Region: A single higher education area for the future
University of the Greater Region 7 universities 115 000 students 6 000 academic and research staff Teaching and research languages:
French, German, English
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The consortium promotes the higher education, research and innovation area of the Greater Region by
improving mobility among students, researchers and administrative staff inter-connecting and creating joint study programmes close cooperation and joint efforts in doctoral education and cross-border
research sharing information with other higher education institutes of the Greater
Region for cooperation and best practice maintaining widespread international relations
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The University of the Greater Region: Profile
GO
VERN
ANCE
MOBILITY
OPE
NIN
G
EDUCATION
RESEARCH
international appeal
cooperation in research
students
researchers
cross-border studies
recognition transports
non-academic staff
UniGRcommon higher education
& research area
libraries
doctoral studies
partnerships
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The University of the Greater Region: What are the students’ benefits?
coverage of a wide range of fields of study
good support, small study groups and modern technical equipment
high level of internationality and mobility: cross-border studies, numerous double degrees with international partner universities, European and international research programmes
intercultural experience historical consciousness openness
Saarland Univ.
Univ. of Liège
Univ. of Luxembourg
University of Lorraine
Univ. of Kaiserslautern
Univ. of Trier
Education (Teacher training etc.)
X X X X X X
Humanities & Arts X X X X X
Social Sciences, Business & Law
X X X X X X
Science (Life, Physical, Computing, Mathematics)
X X X X X X
Engineering, Manufacturing & Construction
X X X X X
Agriculture, Veterinary
X X
Health & Welfare(Medicine etc.)
X X X
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The University of the Greater Region: Areas of Study
“How to create a European consortium of universities: best practices and governance structures”Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber
“Best practices in double-degree Masters and PhDs”Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach
“How to create joint research projects with Bulgarian partners through exchange of young researchers and post-docs”Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Finance
Closing speechProf. Dr. Bernard Rentier
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The University of the Greater Region: Possibilities for cooperation with the UGR Consortium
How to create a European consortium of universities:
best practices and governance structures
Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber, President of Saarland University
University of the Greater Region How to create a European, cross-border
higher education and research area
Key questions for a governance strategy:• What do we decide to share?
• Who has to be involved and how?
Mo
du
le 1
: G
OV
ER
NA
NC
E(S
aarb
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en/L
ièg
e)
Module 2: MOBILITY(Luxembourg/ Metz)
Mo
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le 5
: O
PE
NIN
G(L
ièg
e/N
ancy
)
Module 3: EDUCATION(Metz/Saarbrücken)
Module 4: RESEARCH(Nancy/Luxembourg)
UGRCross-border
higher education & research area
Activities – covering all university key areas
Ad
viso
ry S
tud
ents
Co
un
cil
Stu
de
nts
re
pre
se
nta
tiv
es
of
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UGR operational levelProject officers at each university
Experts committees
UGR Steering CommitteeVice-presidents / university representatives in charge of the project
UGR CouncilUniversity presidents + political stakeholders
Working groups
Pilot Activities
Governance structure
Governance structure – involving all university levels
(administrative and academic)
• Council: University presidents and political stakeholders
• Steering Committee: vice presidents• Students Council: Students
• Experts Committees: University Administration• Pilot activities: Scientists, professors, lecturers
MODULE 1 – GOVERNANCE
Main results and best practices
• Common strategies
• Networking
• Bottom-up cooperation
• Visibility and communication
MODULE 1 – GOVERNANCE
Main results and best practices
• Strategic level: Developing common strategies
• Operational level: Setting up networks between the partner
universities by creating experts committees and working groups.
Supporting bottom-up cooperation: 19 pilot activities in teaching and research.
Main results and best practices:
Studying
• UGR student status (complete realization until beginning of 2012):
Access to the courses of the partner universities Access to the libraries, cafeterias and other university
organizations and student services
• UGR mobility fund (complete realization until beginning of 2012):
Financial support for students attending courses, conferences, etc. at the partner universities
Student council initiative
Main results and best practices:
Research
• Scientific cooperation:
Thematic workshops networking(e.g. biotechnology, virology)
Database “research equipment”
• Cross-border doctorate training: Workshops for PhD students (e.g. European Doctoriales)
Main results and best practices:
Communication & visibility
• Internet portal www.uni-gr.eu:
Database containing all the courses on offer (to be published by the end of 2011)
Information on partner universities
• UGR as part of communication strategy of each partner university
• Common marketing strategy and material
MODULE 1 – GOVERNANCE
Perspectives:
From a project to a university network
• EUA evaluation
• Reflection on future UGR network structure,possible creation of an EGTC
(European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation)
Timing
2008 - 2012 2013 … 2020 …
UGR Interreg Project
+ Extension
UGR NETWORK
“How to create a European consortium of universities: best practices and governance structures”Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber
“Best practices in double-degree Masters and PhDs”Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach
“How to create joint research projects with Bulgarian partners through exchange of young researchers and post-docs”Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Finance
Closing speechProf. Dr. Bernard Rentier
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The University of the Greater Region: Possibilities for cooperation with the UGR
Consortium
Best practices in double-degree Masters and PhDsProf. Dr. Rolf Tarrach, President of the University of Luxembourg
“University of the Greater Region”Sofia, October 24th 2011
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Double / Joint degrees
• What are the advantages of double / joint degrees? Why are they that desired?
• Are double degrees a current trend or an evolution of the higher education offer?
• What are the challenges?• What about a stepwise increase of integration?
>> our objective : integrated higher education area
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Levels of educational cooperation
1. Degrees with joint lectures/seminars
>> informal cooperation
2. Degrees with “mobility windows” / integrated mobility and/or
cooperation agreements
>> Erasmus, “UGR” agreement
3. Integrated degrees
>> double or triple degrees, joint degrees, Erasmus Mundus, Co-
tutelles
Lev
el o
f in
teg
rati
on
>> our aim: support all levels and lead to high integration
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Deliverables to provide basis for cooperation in education
• Joint online educational offer database (in progress – end 2011)
• Comparative academic calendar • UGR student status to facilitate mobility
• Mobility handbook (in progress – delivery April 2012)
• Mobility funds• Network of university libraries
• Charta for the doctoral education and European doctorate label (in progress)
• Handbook for cooperation in education (in progress – delivery mid 2012)
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Way of working
• Involve administrative staff: create joint experts committees to analyse issues, and develop and implement sustainable and shared structures
and procedures
• Support initiatives of academic staff: finance and advise pilot activities to analyse barriers, develop solutions and to identify best practices
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Identified best practices 1/2
FLEXIBILITY• Flexibility in curricula
• Flexibility in recognition
JOINT ADMINISTRATION• Involvement of all stakeholders – from students to academic staff
to central administration• Joint administrative procedures
• Pro-active support and networking of administrative staff and academic staff
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Identified best practices 2/2
DISSEMINATION AND ONE-STOP-SHOP PRINCIPLE• Visibility of education offer• Global information source
• Pro-active internal promotion of added values related to integrated study offer
• Pro-active support and promotion of mobility
>> our statement: promote unity while respecting diversity
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Motivations, challenges & perspectives
• The UGR cooperation in education offers
>> infrastructure to support the development of integrated and broad educational offer at all levels
>> best preparation for a global labour market
>> simple procedures for smooth running of mobility
• Our next challenges
>> enlarge curriculum offer
>> increase level of integration
>> open our collaborations to third countries
>> remain pro-active and maintain the current dynamism
“How to create a European consortium of universities: best practices and governance structures”Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber
“Best practices in double-degree Masters and PhDs”Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach
“How to create joint research projects with Bulgarian partners through exchange of young researchers and post-docs”Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Finance
Closing speechProf. Dr. Bernard Rentier
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The University of the Greater Region: Possibilities for cooperation with the UGR
Consortium
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How to create joint research projects
with Bulgarian partners through
exchange of young researchers and post-docs
Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Finance President of Henri Poincaré University, Nancy
Provisional President of Lorraine University
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UGR – Bulgarian universities :Why to create join research projects?
• International research projects interests:– To share knowledge
– To add complementary skills
– To mix the thinking and culture
an good way to quickly produce new knowledge and to obtain excellent results.
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What are the difficulties to implement such cooperation ?
• Integration in the scientific strategy of each partner
• Trust between partners
• Lot of travels
• Long or medium term stays in the partner’s institution.
• corresponding costs
• high availability of researchers
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Success conditions?• Choice of topics of common interest
• Trust between partners of long-term partnerships and well negotiated (intellectual property,…)
• Financial capacity to support costs
• Human resources : motivated and high available researchers
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Qualities of young researchers?• Availability (few family constrainsts)
• Openness to other cultures
• Motivation for a research experience abroad– that will enrich their resumes
– that will improve their chances of obtaining sustainable and high-level employment in an university or in a large international company
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Involving young researchers in join projects • In existing collaborative projects
• To create new joint projects : – In prospective projects by providing a missing knowledge
– By join response to calls for proposals from various European programs
UGR offer
• Broad spectrum of research topics
• Possibility of integrating collaborative projects between UGR
universities
• Access to high performance scientific equipments in all UGR
universities
• No need to speak neither German nor French, researchers
often work in English
• Various proposed positions with or without teaching activity :
post-docs, visiting researcher-lecturer
• Installation assistance – Euraxess centers
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Exchange procedure • Dissemination of research topics proposed in the partner
• Dissemination of information on the intentions of response to calls for proposals in European programs
• Dissemination of the available positions
• Selection of candidates by the home university
• Final selection by the host university
Conclusion
• UGR universities are open to exchange young
researchers
• Bulgarian universities have been selected as preferred
partner
• UGR universities are ready to discuss a procedure for
the exchange to be integrated into a partnership
agreement
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“How to create a European consortium of universities: best practices and governance structures”Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber
“Best practices in double-degree Masters and PhDs”Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach
“How to create joint research projects with Bulgarian partners through exchange of young researchers and post-docs”Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Finance
Closing speechProf. Dr. Bernard Rentier
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The University of the Greater Region: Possibilities for cooperation with the UGR
Consortium
As a conclusion…
We are…
• 7 universities• 115.000 students • 4 countries, 5 regions, 2 languages (+ English)
We share …
• A common history and similar development challenges• A European higher education and research area• An ability to build cross border activities
We decided to…
• Take advantage of our location to work on our similarities and differences
• Strenghten our universities in common teaching and research• Search innovation in multilateral collaboration (based on
bottom-up proposals)• Contribute to the European knowledge area : be a European
lab for university networks; be attractive as a European region; be a strong link with stakeholders
We would like to…
• Make the UGR consortium visible and attractive
• Explain that our best practices possess added-value : your
university, your exchange students, your researchers
• Convince that the UGR facilitates collaboration and is a very
good tool for long term relationships
– Students’ profile
– Collaboration between universities
– Study structures
We offer…
• A shared experience in university networking• Mobility within the consortium:
– Erasmus studies + internships – doctoral education and multicultural experiences
• Experience in research and joint degree development• Multicultural and European experience: languages, soft
skills, partnerships within European consortia
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For further information please visit our website www.uni-gr.eu
Thank you for your attention!Project supported by the European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF), « INTERREG IVA Grande
Région » Programme
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