Welcome to EURASHE Insights bringing you information on what happened in the past month and our new projects and activities to come.

 

 

 

 

Last month @ EURASHE

 

EURASHE CALLS FOR MORE DIVERSITY IN THE SECOND EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES CALL

 

5 November 2019 - EURASHE released the Statement "More diversity, better European Universities: participation of Universities of Applied Sciences" on the participation of UAS in the recently released second call of the European Commission's European Universities Initiative.

 

EURASHE’ expresses its commitment to further support the Initiative and also invites the European Commission to take into account the specificity of UAS and other PHE institutions that have emerged on the occasion of the first call, in particular:

  • Take a full advantage of the diversity of European higher education;
  • Consider all higher education qualification levels, while taking into account the limits of national regulations for UAS and other PHE institutions in this aspect;
  • Take into account the difficulties the UAS may face regarding the requested students’ participation and engagement in the Alliances due to the shorter period of time students spend in UAS in comparison with traditional universities;
  • Clarify the doubts about the sustainability of the Alliances and the realisation of the common long-term strategies beyond the funding period;
  • Consider the specific profile of UAS students that could impact the desirable mobility.

 

The 2020 European Universities call for proposals was published on 7 November 2019 and will close on 26 February 2020. 

 

Read the full Statement here.

 

 

2018 IN A NUTSHELL: HAVE A LOOK AT THE NEWLY RELEASED EURASHE ANNUAL REPORT!

November 2019 – EURASHE published its 2018 Annual Report "2018 in Professional Higher Education: Strengthening the role on European and global level".

 

The Report recalls EURASHE's 2018 activities, projects, actors and events in the field of Professional Higher Education (PHE), underlying its mission to strengthen the impact of innovative, high quality PHE and related user-oriented research in Europe by representing PHE institutions and facilitating their multi-stakeholder cooperation and dialogue.

 

Check out the 2018 Annual Report here.

 

 

STÉPHANE LAUWICK ADDRESSES UAS IN THE KICK-OFF EVENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES INITIATIVE

7 November 2019 - EURASHE took part in the European Commission's European Universities Initiative kick-off event "Building the universities of the future".

 

Our President Stéphane Lauwick was invited to give his contribution at the panel discussion on the transformative role of the European Universities Initiative, during which he addressed the main points of EURASHE Statement on the European Commission's Initiative, putting an accent on the barriers that UAS and PHE institutions face in taking part in this project.

 

Listen to his speech here from hour 2:50.

 

 

 

2019 EUROPEAN QUALITY ASSURANCE FORUM (EQAF) TAKES PLACE IN BERLIN

21-23 November 2019 – The 2019 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF), co-organised by EURASHE together with its partners the European University Association (EUA), the European Students' Union (ESU), and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) took place at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

 

The event gather together more than 500 participants from all over Europe, to discuss how quality assurance can support HE institutions in meeting stakeholder expectations and in demonstrating their value to society.

 

EURASHE Secretary General Michal Karpisek moderated the session title "Could we create a European framework for community engagement in higher education?", which aimed at examining possible opportunities for assessing externally and internally the community engagement of universities.

 

The EQAF Programme Committee also welcomed a new member, Prof. Joaquim Mourato, coordinator of the Technology and Management School of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (Portugal), replacing Dr. Juan Carlos Hernandes Bouades, Board Member of EURASHE and CEO of Sant Paul CEU Andalusia Foundation (Spain), who finished his mandate in 2019.

 

 

Interested in Quality Assurance? Check this out.

 

 

Upcoming activities and opportunities

 

EURASHE LAUNCHES THE CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR #EURASHE30

 

EURASHE will organize its 30th Annual Conference "Professional Higher Education and sustainable development: creating a change that endures" on 20-21 May 2020 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

 

The Conference will address the role of Professional Higher Education in fostering and supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs). Discussions will be structured along the five pillars of Agenda 2030: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.

 

We expect contributions from practitioners from HE institutions and relevant stakeholders from the field, including companies, students, national authorities, civil society organisations, NGOs, quality assurance agencies and other organisations which would correspond to one of the aforementioned pillars.

 

EURASHE welcomes three types of contributions:

  • Breakout sessions;
  • Good practice exaples;
  • Brilliant failures

 

The deadline to submit your proposal is Friday 31 January 2020.

 

 

 

HAVE YOUR SAY ON RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING

EURASHE and its RPLiP project partners invite you and your relevant colleagues from higher education institutions to participate in the survey and share your views and experience on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policies, approaches and challenges of individual higher education institutions. The focus is on recognition of non-formal and informal prior learning.

 

You can find the survey and links to supporting documents here.

 

Deadline to fill in the survey: Tuesday 31 December 2019.

 

The RPLiP project aims to promote different ways of recognising competences for access to further studies and for credits. The objective is to encourage, through structured peer learning, the participating countries to develop quality assured and consistent processes/working methods to recognise non-formal and informal learning. The project intends to feed into further European discussion on enhanced flexibility of higher education provisions. 

 

 

Our members

 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE MITROVICA (IBC-M) ORGANISES CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO EDUCATION

EURASHE's member International Business College-Mitrovica (IBC-M) will organize together with partners the second Scientific International Conference 2020 "Theory to Practice as a Cognitive, Educational and Social Challenge", which will take place on 15-16 June 2020 at the IBC-M campus in Mitrovica, Kosovo.

 

The Conference aims to find out whether scientific and social reasons can lead to interdisciplinary approaches. Is cooperation between different academic areas achievable? What could pedagogues and engineers, bio-scientists and philosophers, agronomists, economists and mechanical engineers, natural scientists and writers - and so on - have in common?

 

The event will bring together a variety of experts from the region and beyond to present current research and cases, which address the topic of theoretical and practical approaches, particularly as it is relevant to the challenges of the Western Balkan region and beyond.

 

The deadline to submit your contribution is Saturday 15 February 2020.

 

 

 

Our partners

 

13TH EUROPEAN BOOK PRICE TO BE HELD AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The 13th edition of the European Book Price event will take place on Wednesday 4 December 2019 at the European Parliament in the presence of EP President David Sassoli.

 

The European Book Price, which was created in 2007 by the association Esprit d'Europe, awards each year a novel and an essay that express a positive vision of Europe and that have been published in one of the 28 Member States of the European Union.

 

The event will be held in French and interpretation will be provided in English and Italian.

 

Register here by Saturday 30 November.

 

 

 

REGISTER FOR THE LLLWEEK 2019!

The Lifelong Learning Platform is organising the 9th edition of the LLLWeek on 2-6 December in Brussels, Belgium.

 

The event will tackle the topic of “Learning democracy, values and participation”, with debates focusing on the role of civil society organisations working in education to foster democracy: the ways and the places we learn about our society and the key place of common values in education. The Lifelong Learning Platform will assess its contribution to shaping common values and to creating more

inclusive societies.

 

 

FINLAND'S PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF EU ORGANISES A CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 

The Finnish's Presidency of the Council of the European Union together with the Finnish Ministry for Education and Culture is organising the conference "Behind the scenes of AI" on 12-13 December in Helsinki, Finland.

 

The conference aims to promote the responsible use of artificial intelligence in education by increasing knowledge and understanding of the different dimensions of AI, in particular the principles guiding decision-making when creating or selecting AI applications. The conference will bring together researchers, decision-makers, experts and others to familiarise themselves with different perspectives on AI, discuss challenges, define best practices and make policy recommendations. The goal of the conference is to provide input for the ongoing discussion on the development of AI in Europe.

 

Register here by Wednesday 4 December.

 

 

 

ABOUT 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.

 

We represent +600 universities of applied sciences and university colleges, national and sectorial associations of higher education institutions, and other individual institutions, such as universities.  

MONTHLY INSPIRATION

TO RESTORE A PAINTING TAKES THE COMBINED SKILLS OF A SURGEON, A DETECTIVE AND AN INVENTOR

 

Do you know that the same precision and care that surgeons use when repairing our body can be applied to restore a painting?

 

In this short video from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the art conservator Diana Hartman guides viewers through the delicate process of repairing tears at the edge of the precious painting, showing us the importance of always being curious and open to learning something new.

 

Watch the video here.

 

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