EURASHE organised its 15th Annual Conference titled ‘University Colleges in the Bologna Process: quality culture and applied research‘ in Vilnius (Lithuania) on 28-29 April 2005. It is organised by EURASHE, the Rectors’ Conference of Lithuanian University Colleges (LKDK), and Vilniaus Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences (VIKO). Underneath are further information on:
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Day 1 – Thursday 28 April 2005
15.00 – Opening of the Conference
Gintautas Braziunas, President, Vilnius College in Higher Education
Remigiijus Motuzas, Minister of Education and Science, Lithuania
Michael Graham, Head of European Commission Representation in Lithuania
Ruard Wallis deVries, EC, DG Education & Culture of the European Commission
Roland Vermeesch, President of EURASHE
15.40 – Conference theme 1: Applied Research in partnership with industry and universities
Bert Hoogewijs, Algemeen Directeur Hogeschool Gent
Josef Koubek, Professor, European University Association
Romualdas Pusvaskis, Head of the Department of the Ministry of Education and Science
16.40 – Coffee break
17.00 – Panel discussion
Paul Hannigan, Council of Directors of Institutes of Technology, Ireland
Olli Mertanen, Vice Rector, Turku Polytechnic, Sweden
Arthur Naylor, St Mary’s College, United Kingdom
20.30 – Welcome reception & Buffet – Belmont restaurant
Day 2 – Friday 29 April 2005
09.30 – Conference theme 2: Quality Assurance on a European Level
Christian Thune, President of ENQA
Lucien Bollaert, Director of Education & Research, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Jan Dekker, President, European Association of Research and Technology Organisations
Almantas Serpatauskas, Study Evaluation of Lithuanian centre for Quality assessment, “Quality Assurance in Lithuanian Higher Education. Comparative Analysis of Non-university and University Study Evaluation”
11.10 – Coffee break
11.40 – Workshops on two conference topics
Topic 1: Applied Research
Olli Mertanen, Vice-Rector of Turku Polytechnic, Sweden; Paul Hannigan, Council of Directors of Institutes of Technology, Ireland; Liviu Drugus, George Bacovia University, Romania
Topic 2: Quality Assurance
Brian Maguire, IQFW, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland; Orlaith McCaul, HETAC, Ireland; Mark Frederiks, NVAO, Netherlands/Belgium-Flanders
13.00 – Lunch
14.15 – Plenary Meeting: Reports from the Working Groups
14.45 – Conference theme 3: Intercultural Competencies: Impact on graduates’ employability
Richard R. Gesteland, Founder of Global Management
Adil Akhmetov, Kazakh British Technical University, Kazakhstan
15.30 – Coffee break
16.00 – Panel discussion on theme 3
Jan Dekker, President, European Association of Research and Technology Organisations
Richard R. Gesteland, Founder of Global Management
Vanja Ivosevic, President of ESIB
Adil Akhmetov, Kazakh British Technical University, Kazakhstan
16.40 – Presentation by the Secretary General of EURASHE’s Vilnius Declaration for the Ministry of Education meeting in Bergen
Feedback from attendants
17.20 – Closing the conference, Roland Vermeesch, President EURASHE
19.30 – Dinner Le Meridien Villon restaurant
The theme of our Conference – “University Colleges in the Bologna Progress:quality culture and applied research” focuses on our priority areas in the present context of change in the field of professional higher education. The Conference will be hosted by the Vilnius College in Higher Education, and will offer three main tracks: ‘Quality assurance on a European level’, ‘Applied Research in cooperation with industry and universities’, and ‘Intercultural competencies and their impact on the graduates’ employability’. Apart from a conference plenary session with keynote speakers on the three issues, the first two tracks will be further developed in interactive workshops with involvement of the main stakeholders, whereas the third track is already a run-up to the following working year.
The conference theme shows to our stakeholders and to the outside world both our determination to represent the full range of higher professional education in the European Higher Education Area and our commitment to inform our members and the whole sector of professional education of challenging developments in the Bologna Process. Professional Higher Education has a specific role to play in this process and Eurashe, as the official spokesperson of professional higher education institutions in the Bologna Follow-Up Group, has fully committed itself to carry out this task.
Michael Graham- Michael Graham is the Head of the European Commission’s representation in Lithuania.
Paul Hannigan, Board member of EURASHE- Paul Hannigan has been President of Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) since January 1998. Having graduated from UCD with a Bachelor of Commerce (1985) and Masters of Business Studies, specialising... Read more
Arthur Naylor- Arthur Naylor is a graduate of Glasgow University and Henley Management College and spent the first half of his career working in Scotland mainly in teacher education where his main... Read more
Jan Dekker- Jan A. Dekker is the President of KIVI NIRIA (Royal Dutch Society of Engineers), former President of European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO), former President of TNO and non-executive... Read more
Vanja Ivošević- Vanja Ivošević is the former President of the European Students’ Union (ESU). Adil Akhmetov- Dr Adil K. Akhmetov is the Director of International Affairs at Kazakh British Technical University (KBTU) in Kazakhstan.
Liviu Drugus- Liviu Drugus is the Chancellor at George Bacovia University in Romania.
Bryan Maguire- Bryan Maguire is Head of Qualifications Services designate of Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) (Ireland), he was previously Director of Academic Affairs at the Higher Education and Training Awards Council, Ireland... Read more
Olli Mertanen- Olli Mertanen has been Vice-Rector of Turku Polytechnic in Turku (Finland).
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
Romualdas Pusvaskis- Romualdas Pusvaskis is the Head of VET at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania.
Lucien Bollaert- Lucien Bollaert is an independent international QA expert, keynote speaker at many conferences on QA, author of peer-reviewed articles and visiting professor in New York. He is member of the... Read more
Bert Hoogewijs- Bert Hoogewijs is the General Director of University College Ghent (HoGent) (Belgium).
Richard R. Gesteland- Richard R. Gesteland is the founder of Global Management LLC, an international consultancy serving corporate and institutional clients.
Mark Frederiks- Dr Mark Frederiks is policy adviser international relations with NVAO (Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders), based in The Hague. He is also the Coordinator of the European Consortium... Read more Almantas Šerpatauskas- Almantas Serpatauskas is the Programme Specialist of the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Evaluation in Higher Education.
Ruard Wallis deVries- Ruard Wallis deVries represents the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission.
Roland Vermeesch- Roland Vermeesch was the General Director of the Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen and the President of EURASHE. He is a past President of the Flemish Council of Hogescholen, as well as Vice-President.... Read more
Remigiijus Motuzas- Remigiijus Motuzas is a former Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania.
Josef Koubek- Josef Koubek is Assoc. Professor at Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague Czech Republic and he was a member of the board of the European University Association in Brussels from 2000 until 2006.
Orlaith McCaul- Orlaith Mc Caul was from 2002 until 2006 Head of Quality Assurance and Learner Assessment at Higher Education and Training Awards Council in Ireland. At the moment Dr Orlaith Mc Caul... 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
Rectors’ Conference of Lithuanian University Colleges (LKDK)- Lietuvos kolegijų direktorių konferencija (LKDK) It is the association of the rectors of 12 Lithuanian state UAS and 9 private UAS.
Vilniaus Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences (VIKO)- Vilniaus Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences (VIKO) is the largest accredited higher professional education institution in Lithuania. It provides higher professional education in the sectors of Tourism, Business, Information Technologies, Electronics,... Read more- A Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area (0.4 MB)
- Agreed European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (0.2 MB)
- Applied Research as a “Doxa-Praxis Continuum” The case of EMMY applied to Social Sciences and Humanities (0.2 MB)
- Applied research: 4-cases (1.4 MB)
- Applied transdisciplinary research Doxa-Praxis Continuum as a result of applying EMMY to human thinking and acting (0.2 MB)
- Development of non-university higher education in Lithuania (0.3 MB)
- Mutual recognition of accreditation decisions (4.4 MB)
- Opening Address (80 KB)
- Quality Assurance (QA) in the European processes (1.5 MB)
- Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Training in Ireland (1.7 MB)
- Quality Assurance in Lithuanian Higher Education. Comparative Analysis of Non-University and University Study Evaluation (5.3 MB)
- Research Development in Irish Institutes of Technology (0.7 MB)
- Various kinds of research: A challenge for University Colleges and Polytechnics (0.5 MB)
