



According to the Statutes, EURASHE has the following bodies:
Presidium, Board, Council, Secretariat and General Assembly
Moreover EURASHE also has established several Working groups.
You can jump to a specific section by clicking on it, you can also find more information on the dedicated pages.
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It consists of the President and the two Vice-Presidents and it is assisted by the Secretary General. The Presidium meets when the occasion requires it.
More information is available on the dedicated page.
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Andreas G. Orphanides, EURASHE PresidentEuropean University Cyprus - 6 Diogenes Street - 1516 Nicosia - Cyprus |
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Michal Karpíšek, EURASHE Vice-PresidentCASPHE - Pod Kotlarkou 8 - 150 00 Prague 5 - Czech Republic |
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Patrick Blondé, EURASHE Vice-PresidentMaritime Academy of Antwerp - Noordkasteel Oost 6 - 2030 Antwerpen - Belgium |
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Stefan Delplace, EURASHE Secretary GeneralRavensteingalerij 27/3 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 211 41 97 - Fax: +32 (0)2 211 41 99 |
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It consists of the President, the two Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer and three delegates from the member states. The board meets prior to each Council meeting or more often according to needs.
You can learn more on the dedicated page.
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Régis Debrulle, EURASHE Treasurer Hogeschool Gent - Kortrijksesteenweg 14 - Gent - Belgium |
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Zdenka Steblovnik Župan, Elected Board memberWood Technology School Maribor - Lesarska Šola Maribor - Slovenia |
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Marc Vandewalle, Elected Board memberFlemish Council of University Colleges - Ravensteingalerij 27/3 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium |
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Ronald Guillen, Elected Board memberIUT de St Nazaire - 58 rue Michel-Ange - 44600 Saint-Nazaire - France |
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It consists of the President, the two Vice-Presidents, two delegates per member state and one observer per associate member. The Council meets at least two times a year, in order to discuss the policy (issues) of the association and to define the strategy for the working year.
You can learn more on the Council and its members on the dedicated page.
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It is the head office in Brussels, from which the Association is run on a daily basis. This is the responsibility of the Secretary General, Stefan Delplace, who liaises with the members of the Presidium (President & Vice-President, Financial Director), and Council, which is the policy-making body of the association.
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Iva Voldánová, Project ManagerRavensteingalerij 27/3 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 211 41 97 - Fax: +32 (0)2 211 41 99 |
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Mario De Martino, Project OfficerRavensteingalerij 27/3 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 211 41 97 - Fax: +32 (0)2 211 41 99 |
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Alexandre Wipf, Communications OfficerRavensteingalerij 27/3 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 211 41 97 - Fax: +32 (0)2 211 41 99 |
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Kristina Kockova, Financial OfficerRavensteingalerij 27/3 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 211 41 97 - Fax: +32 (0)2 211 41 99 |
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The General Assembly consists of up to 3 delegates per national association, 1 delegate per professional association and 1 delegate per individual institution. The Plenary Council meets annually, in conjunction with the annual conference.
You can learn more on the dedicated page.
The last General Assembly, which was held in Brussels on 24 September 2011
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EURASHE is engaged in the development of policies on key issues for Professional Higher Education.
The association has 6 Working Groups with the purpose to research on existing documents and analyse current situation of PHE from the given aspect, develop and formulate policy positions on their area of expertise, and then develop an activity plan to further promote the policy: two of them (WG5 on Quality Assurance and Transparency Tools and WG6 on Lifelong Learning and Employability) were already active, while 4 of them have been set up in 2011.
Each of them composed by a board member, who is responsible for liaising with the Board and Council on its chosen priorities, and 5-10 experts seconded by EURASHE member institutions.
EURASHE’s Working groups are the following:
WG1 Mission & Role of PHE - Working group page; Policy Page
WG2 Innovation & Research - Working group page; Policy page
WG3 NQF & Student-Centred Learning - Working group page; Policy page
WG4 Mobility and international Openness - Working group page; Policy page
WG5 Quality Assurance and Transparency Tools - Working group page; Policy page
WG6 Lifelong Learning and Employability – Working group page; Policy page
Moreover EURASHE has an internal working group (WG7) dedicated to Strategy and the Implementation of the Work programme (you can learn more on the WG7 page), as well as a Communications Task Force (CTF) regarding all communications matters (you can learn more on the CTF page).