State of the UNICA

President’s Report 2008-2009

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• UNICA outreach • UNICA and its members• UNICA: platform for sharing good practices• Communication and Website• Conclusions

Introduction

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Relations with the European Commission

• UNICA EC projects (Arthur Mettinger)– Increase visibility and reliability– Driving force in the development of the Bologna Process

• EC requested UNICA advice- 2nd European University- Business Forum, February 5-6 - The relation “science-society-university”- Stakeholder Forum on Knowledge Transfer, May 13, Brussels- Free booth at “Study in Europe” Sao Paulo Fair, March 27-29 (Univ. de

Lisboa)

• UNICA President met with EC Commissioner Leonard Orban (Multilingualism), Cyprus, Oct. 2009

UNICA Outreach

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UNICA and the European University Association

• Collective associate member of the EUA• Member of the Council for Doctoral Education of the EUA• UNICA President invited to the EUA Conference 2009, Giessen. • EUA President Jean-Marc Rapp, key note speaker at the UNICA

Rectors’ Seminar 2009, University of Zagreb• President EUA-CDE Jean Chambaz, key note speaker at the 1st

UNICA Master Class “Supervision for Doctoral Education”, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, September.

UNICA Outreach

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UNICA and the capital cities (UCEU)• UNICA President participated in the UCEU annual GA, Dublin,

2008• UNICA President participated in the UCEU annual GA, Nicosia,

2009• Involvement of UCEU in future UNICA Student Conferences• Meeting UNICA SC with Regional Representatives of the

Capital Cities/Regions, Brussels (Work Programme 2010)

UNICA Outreach

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Visits of the President- Visit to 13 UNICA member Universities

UNICA and the members

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New working groups and initiatives- UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition for Students and Young Researchers- Working Group on “Language Preparation of Erasmus Students”- UNICA Master in European History- The Relation between Universities and Academic Hospitals: the Academic

Function of Medical Schools- Working Group on Research Evaluation in Higher Education- UNICA Observatory in Administrative Excellence

IRO Meeting, University of Cyprus, April 27-29

• Internationalization of the Alumni work of universities, Freie Universität Berlin, January 22-23

• 9th Bologna Lab coordinators Meeting, University of Vienna, November 25, 2008

• 3rd EU Research Officers Seminar, University of Cyprus, November 20-21, 2008

• UNICA Master Class: “Supervision in doctoral education”, 20-23 September, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik

UNICA: platform for sharing good practices

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• Rectors’ Seminar “The Role of Evaluation & Ranking of Universities in the Quality Culture”, July, Dubrovnik

• Scholarly Communication Group:- Reply to the Green Paper of the EC “Copyright in the Knowledge Economy”- Paul Ayris, UCL, chair of the Group, represented

UNICA at the EU-wide conference on science- and education- friendly copyright regulation in Europe, ENCES Conference, November 14-15, 2008, Berlin.

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UNICA: platform for sharing good practices

Participation Chart 2009

• New UNICA Website: tool for internal & external communication

• UNICA newsletter: 4 newsletters

Communication and Website

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• Most of the UNICA scheduled activities of the Work Programme 2009 were achieved

• Moreover, new initiatives were undertaken

• EC funded projects highly increased the visibility and reliability of the Network

• UNICA a platform for exchange of best practices - academic and administrative

Conclusion

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All UNICA members for their contribution to the Work Programme

The Rectors/Presidents

The UNICA IROs and Contact Persons

The UNICA Secretariat

Thanks to