EURASHE organised its 12th Annual Conference titled ‘Towards Coherence in Europe on Higher Education‘ in Galway (Ireland) on 16-17 May 2002. Underneath are further information on:
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Day 1 – Thursday 16 May 2002
14.00 – Opening of Conference by, Hon. Noel Treacy, T.D., Minister of State for Science & Technology
14.15 – Welcome to the Conference and to the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, by Director Gay J. Corr, President of EURASHE
14.30 – Keynote: Convergence, Diversity and Internationalisation in European Higher Education, Bernd Wächter, Director, Academic Cooperation Association, ACA, Belgium
15.05 – Keynote: From Prague to Berlin, the EU Contribution, Peter Van Der Hijden, Principal Administrator, European Commission, Directorate Education and Culture, Belgium
15.40 – Coffee Break
16.10 – The Flemish University-Hogeschool Associations, Luc Van de Velde, Secretary General, Vlaamse Hogescholen Raad, VLHORA, Belgium
16.40 – Standards of Degree’s in European Higher Education, Ignace Van Dingenen, Director of Education & Research, Erasmushogeschool, Belgium
17.10 – Concluding remarks, end of first Conference day
19.00 – Reception, Ardilaun House Hotel
20.00 – Gala Dinner, Ardilaun House Hotel
Day 2 – Friday 17 May 2002
09.30 – Challenges for a coherent European Higher Education Area, David Crosier, Programme Manager, European University Association, EUA, Belgium
10.00 – Trends of Coherence in European Quality Assurance, Christian Thune, Director of The Danish National Evaluation Institute, Chairman, European Network for Quality Assurancein Higher Education, ENQA
10.30 – Coffee Break
11.00 – The Region of the Future, Frank Ryan, Head/Regional Development, Industrial Development Authority, Ireland
11.30 – Foreign Direct Investment and Irish Education, Sean McDonagh, Director National Skills Initiative Unit, Former Director of Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
12.00 – Lunch, Ardilaun House Hotel
14.00 – The position of the Colleges in the Higher Education Reform Programme in Hungary, with special regard to the Bologna Process
Arpad Balogh, President Confederation of Hungarian Conferences on Higher Education, Hungary
István Bilik, Secretary General, Confederation of Hungarian Conferences on Higher Education, Hungary
14.30 – Analysis of the Tertiary Short Cycle Education in Europe, Søren Nørgaard, Secretary General, European Association of Institutions in Higher Education, EURASHE, Belgium
Analysis of the Tertiary Short Cycle Education in Latvia, Baiba Brigmane, Rector of the Banking Institution of Higher Education, Riga, Latvia
15.00 – Coffee Break
15.30 – Presentation of the “EURASHE Declaration”, decided at the Plenary Meeting on 16 May 2002
15.45 – Round Table Discussion: Role and future policy of EURASHE and the Sector of Colleges/Polytechnics in the Bologna-Prague-Berlin process
Moderator: Lars Lynge Nielsen, Centre for Higher Institution, CVU FYN, Denmark
16.45 – Concluding remarks, end of Conference
Luc Van de Velde - Luc Van de Velde is General Director of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel from 2007. Before, he was the Secretary General of VLHORA from 1997 to 2007.
Lars Lynge Nielsen - Born 1948, Copenhagen, Denmark. Holds an MA in Psychology from the University of Copenhagen. Lars Lynge Nielsen joined EURASHE in 1998. Previously he held a number of senior positions in... Read more
Christian Thune - Christian Thune was for a number of years Professor in International Politics at the University of Copenhagen, and he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Law and Political Science... Read more
Sean McDonagh - Dr Sean McDonagh is the former Director of Skills Initiative Unit of Irish Institutes of Technology and Former Director of Dundalk Institute of Technology in Ireland.
Noel Treacy - Noel Treacy (born 18 December 1951) is a former Irish Fiana Fail politician. He served as a Teachta Dala (TD) for the Galway Eastconstituency from 1982 to 2011. Between 1989 and 1991 he served... Read more
István Bilik - Dr Istvan Bilik graduated in 1963 at Eötvös Loránd University, getting an MSc in Geology. Dr Istvan Bilik earned his PhD in Volcanology in 1996 and he is since 1996... Read more
Bernd Wächter - Bernd Wächter is ACA’s Director, a position he has held since 1998. Bernd is responsible for the overall management of the Brussels-based Secretariat and is a frequently consulted expert and speaker on... Read more
Baiba Brigmane - Baiba Brigmane was, from 1999, Rector of the Banking Institution of Higher Education in Riga (Latvia).
Søren Nørgaard - Søren Nørgaard, a previous President and Secretary General of EURASHE, he was also Senior Advisor of the organisation. † Søren Nørgaard (Denmark), 5th President of EURASHE (1998 – 2000), 3rd Secretary General... Read more Arpád Balógh - Dr. Arpád Balógh is the President of Confederation on Hungarian Colleges.
Gay James Corr - Dr Gay James Corr was the 6th President of EURASHE (2000 – 2002) and Director at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Ireland. Gay James Corr (Ireland), 6th President of EURASHE... Read more
Peter van der Hijden - Peter van der Hijden is an independent higher education expert of Dutch nationality living in Brussels. He studied law and worked at Maastricht University before joining the European Commission. Former... Read more
Ignace Van Dingenen - Ignace Van Dingenen is the Director at Association University Ghent and Director of Education & Research at Erasmushogeschool in Brussels (Belgium).
David Crosier - David joined Eurydice, the European Union’s education information network, in September 2008. He is responsible for the network’s activities on higher education. Eurydice is responsible for providing information on education... Read more
Frank Ryan - Frank Ryan is Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Ireland since 2003 and a member of the Board of Enterprise Ireland. Frank leads the senior management team working directly with Irish-owned enterprises,... Read moreOrganisers
European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) - EURASHE is the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education that offer professionally orientated programmes and are engaged in applied research within the Bologna cycles. EURASHE represents universities of applied sciences... Read more- Analysis of the Tertiary Short Cycle (TSC) Educations in Europe (0.1 MB)
- Associations in Flemish Higher Education - Text (34 KB)
- Convergence, Diversity and Innovation in European Higher Education (31 KB)
- European trends in Coherence in higher education (13 KB)
- Foreign Direct Investment and Irish Education (2.9 MB)
- Joint Degrees and the implementation of the Bachelor Master structure: A Case Study Brussels (0.2 MB)
- The Position of the Colleges in the Higher Education Reform Programme in Hungary with special regard to the Bologna Process (2.8 MB)
- Trends of coherence in European Quality Assurance (0.2 MB)