Digitalisation, the race for innovation and the wider use of artificial intelligence are creating uncertainty and challenging our societies as never before. It is expected this will impact on all aspects of the organisation of society – both large communities and individuals, in urban and rural areas – as the buzz-word is smart specialisation of territories.
The challenge for the European leaders of Professional Higher Education is to gain an insight into how citizens will live and work tomorrow. Education plays a key role in addressing global challenges and responding to sustainable development goals. Generation X, Y, Z, millennials as well as older generations:

• What learning experience do they expect from Higher Education Institutions?
• What kind of skills will they need to lead successful lives and professional careers?
• How will Professional Higher Education help provide those skills?
• Are we definitely moving away from knowledge-oriented curricula and coherent qualifications into an age of transferable skills?
• How do we re-invent learning and teaching to remain relevant in a world of uncertainty?

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Following are the keynote speakers of the event:

Gerald Bast

Dr Gerald Bast (*1955) is president of the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2000.
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Shyamal Majumdar

Dr Shyamal Majumdar is the Head of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training since May 2011.
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Tibor Navracsics

Tibor Navracsics is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from June to September 2014.
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Following are the speakers of the interactive sessions:

Alicia-Leonor Sauli-Miklavčič

Alicia-Leonor Sauli-Miklavčič is a good connoisseur of international professional higher education, she has been Project Expert at the Slovene Association HVC as well as a member of the EURASHE working group on Employability & Lifelong Learning.
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Denise Amyot

Denise Amyot is the President and CEO of Colleges and Institutes Canada (formerly ACCC).
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Anne Uukkivi

Anne Uukkivi is associate professor at the Centre for Sciences at TTK University of Applied Sciences and coordinator of Erasmus+ project named EngiMath.

Efrat Aran

B.Sc industrial engineering and management, MBA graduate and certified by Mandel institute for educational leadership.
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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.

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Ellen Budde

Ellen Budde has over 40 years of experience working with different communities. For the past 20 years, she has been a teacher and senior project manager at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science.

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Alicia-Leonor Sauli-Miklavčič

Alicia-Leonor Sauli-Miklavčič is a good connoisseur of international professional higher education, she has been Project Expert at the Slovene Association HVC as well as a member of the EURASHE working group on Employability & Lifelong Learning.

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Oscarina Conceição

Oscarina Conceição is Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Cáva (IPCA) and researcher at Dinâmia’CET-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa).

Daniel Barcza

Daniel Barcza is an associate professor and the Vice-Rector of Strategy at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary (MOME).

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Todd Davey

Todd Davey is a passionate researcher, practitioner, consultant and speaker on the topics of Entrepreneurship and University-Business Cooperation (UBC) as well as being author of the book ‘Entrepreneurship at Universities’.

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Vanessa Debiais-Sainton

Vanessa Debiais-Sainton is Head of the Unit in charge of Higher Education policies and programme at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
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Anastasia Demydenko

Anastasia Demydenko is a M.A. student for European Politics and Society, Political Science, and Communication, accomplishing her studies in Ben-Gurion University in Israel and Radboud University in The Netherlands.
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Themis Kaniklidou

Dr. Themis Kaniklidou is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Hellenic American University.
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Jochen Ehrenreich

Jochen Ehrenreich is a senior researcher at DHBW Heilbronn. He built his expertise in fields like University Governance, Quality Assurance and Accreditation,

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Adam Gajek

Adam Gajek is a member of the European Students’ Union’s Executive Committee 2016/2017.

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László Gulyás

László Gulyás, born in 1972, Node director of EIT Digital Hungary. Previously he was the regional lead of EIT Digital’s ARISE Europe program in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Raimund Hudak

As senior lecturer and researcher with over 10 years of experience at leading academic institutions Raimund Hudak has been involved in various research programmes in Germany and abroad.

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Zsuzsa Jávorka

Zsuzsa Jávorka is a principal consultant at Technopolis Group with over 13 years experience in the domains of research, innovation, science policy and higher education.
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Ella Joukkola

I am Ella Joukkola, an environmental engineering student from Savonia University of Applied Sciendes in Kuopio, Finland.
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Zsuzsa Jávorka

Zsuzsa Jávorka is a principal consultant at Technopolis Group with over 13 years experience in the domains of research, innovation, science policy and higher education.

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Levente Kiss

Levente Kiss MD PhD is the appointed director of the Teaching Center at the Faculty of Medicine of Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) and also a senior assistant professor at the Department of Physiology of the same institution

Zsuzsa Jávorka

Zsuzsa Jávorka is a principal consultant at Technopolis Group with over 13 years experience in the domains of research, innovation, science policy and higher education.
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Ármin Ladányi

Mr. Ármin Ladányi is founder and Vice-President for Foreign Office at House of European Affairs and Diplomacy (HEAD). He is responsible for the professional line of the association and for the its foreign and national relations.
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Philippe Léonard

Philippe Léonard serves as IPC Europe director, a global industry association that provides standards, education and training, global advocacy and solutions for the global electronics industry.
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Margreet Engelhart

Margreet Engelhart was born in Groningen in 1967. After completing her drs. at the University of Groningen (Psychology) in 1992 she works as a psychologist, teacher and curriculum designer.

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Andrea Nagy

Andrea is Head of Sustainability Center at Budapest Business School, where she supports the implementation of sustainability strategy.
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Paula Tavares

Paula Tavares is a professor, artist and researcher. Phd in Fine Arts, with the thesis “The complex relations between art and politics in Western culture. The political art as institutional contradiction.

Gabriele Permoser

Gabriele Permoser has a master degree in political sciences from the University of Vienna. During her studies, she focused on higher education and
Research policy.
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Armando Pires

He is currently full professor in the area of Electrical Engineering at the Setúbal Polytechnic Institute in Portugal and Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Energy Group at CTS/UNINOVA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
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Ulla Preeden

Since 2016, Ulla is the Rector of Tartu Health Care College in Estonia. She is passionate about improving the quality of higher education and convinced that higher education institution has an important role and good opportunity to serve the community by increasing the awareness in different health care fields.
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Bálint Simon

Mr. Bálint Simon is the Founding President and sitting Co-President for Strategy of the student association House of European Affairs and Diplomacy (HEAD).

Sophie Maisonneuve

Sophie Maisonneuve is, since 2003, Associate Professor in Sociology at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) de Paris/Paris Descartes University, where she teaches Cultural Sociology, Cultural Policies and General Sociology, as well as the Methodology of Research in Social Sciences.

Csilla Marianna Szab

Csilla Marianna Szabó graduated from Attila József, Loránd Eötvös, and the University of Pécs.
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Robert Wagenaar

Robert Wagenaar is Director of the International Tuning Academy of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Until recently he was director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen,
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Find below the EURASHE Annual Conference Programme Committee members. The primary role of this committee is mainly to select the relevant contributions for the sessions, give feedback on the programme, and support the Conference by facilitating some sessions (if needed).

László Dinya

Prof. László Dinya is a professor at the University of Szeged and Eszterhazy Károly University – Eger in Hungary. Former he was Director, Vice-Director at several University Colleges, President of the College Directors Conference in Hungary and member of the former Board (1992-2003), later (2002-2003) the Vice-President of EURASHE.
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Themis Kaniklidou

Dr. Themis Kaniklidou is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Hellenic American University. She is Associate Director of the PhD program in Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the MA in Translation.
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Thomas Berger

Thomas Berger has been head of the EU liaison office of the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Fulda since 2016. Since January 2021 he has been seconded to the EU staff unit of the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts.
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Jenni Röynä

Jenni Röynä is a European Policy Advisor at University of Applied Sciences Students in Finland SAMOK. SAMOK represents over 140 000 UAS students in Finland and is the only UAS specific organisation in the European Students’ Union ESU.
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Danute Rasimaviciene

Danute Rasimaviciene, lecturer, trainer, consultant, was leading the Faculty of Business Management of Vilniaus Kolegija, the largest University of Applied Sciences in Lithuania, for more than 10 years till September, 2018.
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