EURASHE organised its 21st Annual Conference titled ‘Examine Expanding Field of Professionally Oriented Programmes in Higher Education‘ in Nice (France) on 31 March-1 April 2011. It is organised by EURASHE, the Assemblé des Directeurs d’IUTs (ADIUT) and the IUT de Nice-Côte d’Azur. Underneath are further information on:
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Day 1 – Thursday 31 March 2011
09.00 – Registration for Conference attendants
09.30 – Welcome and Opening Addresses
Henri Alexis, Directeur IUT-Nice and Lars Lynge Nielsen, President of EURASHE (welcome)
Jean-François Mazoin, President of ADIUT, France
Claire Lovisi, Recteur de l’Académie de Nice
10.00 – Keynote speech from a Representative of the world of Employment, Jean-Pierre Lacotte, Vice President of National Union of IUT Presidents, senior staff member of Technicolor Ltd (formerly Thomson)
10.20 – Conference track 1: Professional programmes in different country contexts: their contribution to ‘Innovation’, employment and regional development
Mr Robin-Champigneul, Chef de la Représentation de l’Union Européenne à Marseille, keynote speaker from the European Commission, on the European Commission’s perspective of The role of Universities of Applied Sciences in the European Research Area
Michal Kadera, Director & DP to BUSINESSEUROPE, Czech Republic
Respondents from two models for professional programmes: in the university structure and in a binary system of higher education
Roland Pelurson, IUT-Valence, France
Tim Creedon, Institutes of Technology, Ireland
11.10 – Coffee break
11.30 – Workshops
The two role models on a systemic level and on a practical level
Governance of institutions and relations with stakeholders (systemic level), Richard Thorn, IOT, Ireland; Roland Ocelli, IUT-Marseille, France
Cooperation in applied research and technological applications (practical applications), Mati Lukas, Secretary General, Estonian Rectors Conference; Ronald Guillen, Director of IUT-Nantes
Alternating work & learning, theory and practice, recognition of experiential learning, lifelong learning, etc.
Apprentissage et contrat de professionnalisation (Internship & the professionalisation contract), Jean-Christophe Boisse, IUT-Nice
Projet Professionnel Personnel-PPP (Staff Professionalisation Project), Olivier Hueber, IUT-Nice
Innovative methodology of teaching in professionally oriented programmes, Dan Ole Faaborg, EAIE, Denmark
12.45 – Mediterranean lunch
14.00 – Plenary Session
Round table session with the keynote speakers
European policies regarding Mobility with countries outside the EHEA, Guy Haug, Technical University of Valencia
Collaboration opportunities for Europe with Latin America in the context of the current trends in LA higher education, Wioletta Wegorowska, executive secretary, Santander Group
Luis Paulino, President of the National Technological University, Dominican Republic, partner in the Carriberasmus project
15.20 – Coffee/tea break
15.40 – Workshops
Cooperation with industrial partners in mobility programmes, Carlos Machado, VUB, Erasmus Mundus project coordinator, Flemish University of Brussels
Cooperation of the IUTs of France with Asia, Ronald Guillen, ADIUT-Nantes; Nhan Le Thanh, IUT- Nice; Patricia Pégurier, IUT – Nice
How to succeed for an institution on the Global market, Edwin Van Rest, StudyPortals
Mobility trends in Latin American higher education, Wioletta Wegorowska, executive secretary, Santander Group
17.00 – Reporting from workshops
19.00 – Welcome reception with buffet, offered by the University of Nice and IUT Nice Côte-d’Azur
Day 2 – Friday 1 April 2011
09.30 – Conference track 3: Redefining Quality Assurance: at an institutional level
Quality in higher education, firstly a matter of the institutions, Achim Hopbach, President of ENQA
10.10 – Coffee break
10.30 – Workshops
ESG mapping (English), Bryan Maguire, HETAC, Ireland; Lucien Bollaert, NVAO, Netherlands/Belgium-Flanders
ESG mapping (French), Bruno Curvale, Centre international d’études pédagogiques, CIEP, France
Internal QA of HEIs, with a focus on student guidance, work placements, sandwich courses & other factors of professional HE, Guy Sepahi, IUT-Nice/Nicole Grivelle, IUT-Nice
The internationalising context of quality assurance, accreditation and recognition, Axel Aerden, NVAO, Netherlands/Belgium-Flanders, QROSSROADS and JOQAR projects
12.00 – Buffet lunch
14.00 – Reporting from the workshops on the Implementation of the European Standards & Guidelines for QA, Rapporteur: Lucien Bollaert
Panel discussion on the three conference tracks
Michal Kadera, BUSINESSEUROPE
Bruno Curvale, CIEP, France
Mr Joly, Ministry of HE, France
Baptiste Baraudou, IUT-Nice student
The 21st EURASHE Annual Conference will bring together leaders in the field of Professional Higher Education for a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding area of research and development. The Conference will be held in Nice, France in March, 31 – April, 1 2011 at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie Nice in partnership with ADIUT-France. The Conference is traditionally a meeting of EURASHE’s individual and associate members, outside experts from a range of academic fields and stakeholders to construct a unique range of educational experiences of relevance to professionals from all geographical regions and sectors of European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and from outside the EHEA.
“This year’s conference is particularly important for professional higher education” said conference co-organiser and the Vice-President of the ADIUT Philippe Pierrot. “The IUTs (Instituts Universitaires de Technologie), which form an integrated part of the university system, focus on the professionally oriented programmes in France. These technological and commercial tracks within the university system, contribute to regional development and applied research. The other model that will be presented is the one of the Universities of Applied Sciences, which in many countries in Europe operate independently from the traditional universities, and play a role of their own in the knowledge transfer in the region where they operate.
One of the peculiarities of the IUTs is well-developed co-operation with other ‘regions’ in the world, such as Latin America, Africa and Asia. In addition to the growth in basic research activities related to professionally oriented programmes, we are also looking at the main features of ‘professionally oriented mobility’ outside the EHEA, with examples from the experience of the French IUTs, and other member associations of EURASHE, so as to give a varied picture of mobility in professional and vocational contexts. We would also like to underline the role which technological higher education plays in the policies of town and country planning and as tool mattering from accession in higher education for strata less favoured by society”. Over the next decade, European Professional Higher Education is expected to undergo a profound change because of the ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’. The two tracks of the conference will provide the input for some of the topics in EURASHE’s planned Bologna 2020 publication, based on ‘EURASHE’s Ten Commitments for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in 2020 – Visions & Strategies’.
The conference will cover the topic of European Mobility in the global context, and the special role of professional Higher Education: higher interest in applied research, synergies through innovative role of placements; factors and conditions influencing the mobility flows and the position of the individual institution on the global market. Stefan Delplace, Secretary General of EURASHE, underlined that EURASHE would in this upcoming 21st conference pay attention to the unique position of one of its member organisations and compare their achievements to other models in European Higher Education. It will also be an outstanding occasion for EURASHE to develop and present its own involvement in a recently approved Erasmus Mundus project, in the Caribbean Islands, where there is a broad spectrum of professionally oriented institutions and programmes. In a third track of this conference, we will entirely focus on Quality Assurance on an institutional level. Firstly we take the opportunity to present and consult with our members and stakeholders on the actual use in the institutions of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance, as part of a project funded by the European Commission, jointly with the European Universities Association (EUA), the European Students Union (ESU) and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). Its aim is to evaluate the implementation and application of the ESG after their first five years in existence. The output of the project will be a report to ‘Bologna’ Ministers at their meeting in Bucharest in April 2012. Other workshops will focus on the obstacles for making joint programmes with foreign partner institutions, and the internal quality assurance of higher education institutions related to aspects that are often overlooked such as student guidance, work placements, and other issues that distinguish professional higher education.
































Organisers



- Alternating work & learning, theory and practice, recognition of experiential learning, lifelong learning, etc. (0.5 MB)
- Cooperation of the IUTs with South America (0.5 MB)
- Diversity is Beautiful, Binary HE – Systems and Governance (0.4 MB)
- European policies for mobility with countries outside the EHEA (99 KB)
- How to effectively position your institution in the global arena? (1.3 MB)
- Innovation Union & Universities of Applied Sciences (0.9 MB)
- Innovation Union, the European Research Area and the role of Universities of Applied Science (0.1 MB)
- Innovation, its importance for regional development and its relationship with vocational training courses Ex : France (1.4 MB)
- Innovative methodology of teaching in professionally oriented programmes (3.8 MB)
- Introduction à un bilan de l'utilisation des références européennes pour la garantie de la qualité dans l'EEES - FR (0.6 MB)
- Les Instituts Universitaires de Technologie An original system of higher professional education (2.9 MB)
- Redefining Quality Assurance at institutional level (0.1 MB)
- The Role of the EIT in the Educational Landscape (98 KB)
- Trends in Higher Education in the Caribbean (0.9 MB)
- University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis The University Institute of Technology (9.5 MB)