Deeper transnational cooperation between universities is seen as a key to enhance the sector’s attractiveness and global competitiveness, and to contribute to a resilient and sustainable Europe. The current policy environment sets ambitious mobility targets and encourages universities to structurally connect their educational provision, develop joint programmes and award joint degrees.
Building on The Guild’s previous Insight paper Reimagining Research-led Education in a Digital Age, with this seminar we explore existing pedagogic/mobility designs and different approaches to transnational education collaboration. We see an opportunity and a need for intervention which will allow deeper and diverse forms of global learning experiences.
How can we best use the sector’s experience to inform future-proof learning designs? What is the potential of the European degree label? What are some alternative educational formats? Based on extensive experience of our members and first experiences of the European University alliances, the seminar contributes to the debate on the types of educational models needed.
The insight paper ''Transnational collaboration and mobility in higher education: Looking back - looking forward'' will be published in June. Watch the recording of the event below.
Programme:
14:00 Welcome by Jan Palmowski, Secretary-General, The Guild
14:05 Presentation of the Insight Paper by Jo Angouri, Academic Director for Education and Internationalisation, University of Warwick, EUTOPIA alliance
14:20 Learning opportunities at the University of Tübingen and CIVIS alliance by Karin Amos, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Tübingen, CIVIS alliance
14:40 Panel discussion:
- Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, Head of Unit, DG EAC, European Commission
- Raffaella Campaner, Vice Rector for International Relations, University of Bologna, Una Europa alliance
- Andries Verspeeten, Deputy Head of International Relations Office, Ghent University, ENLIGHT alliance
- Florian Pecenka, Head of Unit, Department for Education, Science and Research at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU
- Vidar Pedersen, European Programmes Director, Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills
15:40 Q&A session
16:00 End of the seminar
During a panel session at the “DAAD Moving Target Digitalisation 2022: Increasing the Impact of Internationalisation in Higher Education” Conference on 2 December 2022, our members discussed various questions: Why do we need mobility? How do universities respond to the challenge of making mobility more inclusive? How are university alliances rethinking transnational education cooperation? Watch their insights below.