IHES Virtual Conference 2020

MAKING A DIFFERENCE 

Internationalisation in Higher Education for Society (IHES)

26-27 November 2020

Please note that the agenda is subject to change

Pre-conference online workshop

(only for registered participants with paid workshop fee)

 

25 November 2020, 14:00 - 18:00 CET

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Draft agenda:

14:00 - 15:30         Presentations on different aspects of IHES and discussion

15:30 - 16:00         Break, networking

16:00 - 17:30         Group work, discussion of individual projects in small groups with facilitators

17:30 - 18:00         Wrap-up and next steps

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Speakers and facilitators:

Elspeth Jones, Professor Emerita, UK

Uwe Brandenburg, Global Impact Institute, CZ

Georgina Manok, Carnegie Foundation/Brown University, USA

Mathew Johnson, Albion College, USA

Uwe Muuss, Georg-August University in Göttingen, DE

IHES 2020 Virtual Conference

(for all registered participants free of charge) 

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Conference Day 1

26 November 2020, 9:00 - 16:15 CET

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09:00 - 10:15   INTRODUCTION & OPENING 
 

09:00 - 09:10   Opening of the first global IHES conference

                           Uwe Brandenburg, Managing Partner, Global Impact Institute

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09:10 - 09:30   The Relevance of IHES from a National Agency Perspective

                           Keynote speech

                           Dr. Dorothea Rüland, Secretary General DAAD

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09:30 - 10:10   What is IHES and how can it work?

                              Results from a study commissioned by the DAAD  

                           Uwe Brandenburg, Elspeth Jones, Hans de Wit, Betty Leask/Global Impact Institute

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10:15 - 16:15   PRACTICAL SESSIONS Day 1 

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10:15 - 10:45   S01: IHES in focus - What can we learn from IHES programs at the DAAD?

                              DAAD, Germany

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10:45 - 11:15   S15: Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) - a call for more international

                        cooperation and for effective guidance of policy makers and stakeholders 

                              DAAD, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), University of Leipzig,

                              Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

                              

11:30 - 12:00   S04: FAMELAB - a tale of science, society, communication and change

                              British Council, UK, Charles University, Prague, CZ,                                                                                                     Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ, Ruder BoÅ¡ković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

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12:00 - 12:30   S13: Transnational education: global education offer, local impact?  

                              British Council, UK, University of London Institute in Paris, FR,                                                                                   Lancaster University in Leipzig, DE

 

12:45 - 13:15   S05: Linking internationalisation strategy and transfer strategy of a University

                        of Applied Sciences

                              University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany

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13:15 - 13:45   S18: Strategic adaptability as an element of international students       

                        "domestication" and "foreignization" to the university and local society

                              Poznan University of Technology, Poland

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14:00 - 14:30   S07: What is the role of international networks in bringing internationalization

                        of higher education to wider society?

                              Humboldt-Universität, Germany; University of Warsaw, Poland; Eötvös Loránd University,

                              Hungary  

                       

14:30 - 15:00   S02: IHES - the newly funded Erasmus+ KA2 project on Internationalisation for                         Society

                              Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic;  Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

                       

15:15 - 15:45   S08: SocialErasmus: Community Engagement in International Student Mobility

                              ESN, Brussels, Belgium

 

15:45 - 16:15   S14: A globally relevant, locally appropriate Community Engagement

                        Classification

                              Carnegie Foundation/Brown University, USA

Speakers:

Conference Day 2

27 November 2020, 9:00 - 15:15 CET

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09:00 - 14:30   PRACTICAL SESSIONS Day 2 

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​09:00 - 09:30    S17: Never the twain shall meet? IHES in New Zealand and Indonesia

                               University of Auckland, New Zealand

                         

09:30 - 10:00    S19: Bring UTM to the WORLD - Bring the WORLD to UTM - Engaging with

                         the wider community through internationalisation

                               Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

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10:15 - 10:45    S10: PEACEMAKERS Project: Peace Dialogue Campus Network: Fostering

                         Positive Attitudes between Migrants and Youth in Hosting Societies

                               University of Koç, Turkey

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10:45 - 11:15    S20: WILLIAM COVID Initiative: Psycho-social support and guidance for the

                         public

                               College of Management, Israel

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11:30 - 12:00    S11: Helping to attract global workforce to regional companies - 

                         the Welcome Centre Göttingen Campus and the Südniedersachsen Region

                               Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

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12:00 - 12:30    S12: Integration of communities in HEIs and society at large

                               KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; TU Darmstadt, Germany, TU Eindhoven, NL   

                              

12:45 - 13:15    S16: Internationalization and Diversity: Competing or Complementary

                         Imperatives?

                               University of Bonn, TU Dresden, Germany; TU Delft, Netherlands; University of Gdansk,

                               Poland

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13:15 - 13:45    S06: Terrorism and the media: how internationalisation can help to educate                            the wider public 

                               University of Swansea, UK  

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​14:00 - 14:30    S03: Bringing societal relevance into the university through IHES

                               FH Vienna, Austria

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14:30 - 15:15   CLOSING 

 

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​14:30 - 15:00   IHES in a COVID-19 world

                        The perspectives of National Agencies

                          DAAD, NAWA, British Council

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15:00 - 15:15   Closing of the IHES conference

                              Uwe Brandenburg, Global Impact Institute

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Please note that the agenda is subject to change

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