IHES Conference 2020
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Internationalisation in Higher Education for Society (IHES)
22-24 April 2020, Prague, Czech Republic
Pre-conference workshop
Wednesday 22 April 2020
Venue: Business Link Visionary
Separate registration required, limited number of participants, confirmation on a first come, first served basis
12:00 - 17:30 IHES workshop "Design your own IHES project"
Elspeth Jones, Professor Emerita, UK
Uwe Brandenburg, Global Impact Institute, CZ
Georgina Manok, Brown University, USA
Mathew Johnson, Brown University, USA
Uwe Muuss, Georg-August University in Göttingen, DE
Conference Day 1
Thursday 23 April 2020
Venue: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
09:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 12:00 OPENING PLENARY (Auditorium)
10:00 - 10:15 Opening of the first global IHES conference
Uwe Brandenburg, Managing Partner, Global Impact Institute
10:15 - 11:15 The Relevance of IHES from a National Agency Perspective
Keynote speech
Dr. Dorothea Rüland, Secretary General DAAD
11:15 - 12:00 What is IHES and how can it work?
Results from a study commissioned by the DAAD
Uwe Brandenburg and Elspeth Jones, Global Impact Institute
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Day 1 (Auditorium, Studio)
13:00 - 14:00 S01: IHES in focus - What can we learn from IHES programs at the DAAD?
DAAD, Germany
Auditorium
13:00 - 13:30 S02: Aluma's Model for 360 Degrees of Higher Education - Aligning
community needs with university interests
Aluma Organisation, Israel
Studio
13:30 - 14:00 S03: Bringing societal relevance into the university through IHES
FH Vienna, Austria
Studio
14:00 - 15:00 S04: FAMELAB - a tale of science, society, communication and change
British Council, UK
Auditorium
14:00 - 14:30 S05: Linking internationalisation strategy and transfer strategy of a University
of Applied Sciences
University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
Studio
14:30 - 15:00 S06: Terrorism and the media: how internationalisation can help to educate the
wider public
University of Swansea, UK
Studio
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 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
Auditorium
15:30 - 16:00 S08: SocialErasmus: Community Engagement in International Student Mobility
ESN, Brussels, Belgium
Studio
16:00 - 16:30 S09: Willy Brandt in concert - a German-Polish IHES experience
University of Music, Lübeck, Germany
Studio
16:30 - 17:30 S10: PEACEMAKERS Project: Peace Dialogue Campus Network: Fostering
Positive Attitudes between Migrants and Youth in Hosting Societies
University of Koç, Turkey
Auditorium
16:30 - 17:30 S11: Helping to attract global workforce to regional companies -
the Welcome Centre Göttingen Campus and the Südniedersachsen Region
Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
Studio
18:00 - 22:00 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
Guided tour of the current DOX exhibitions, dinner and drinks, networking
Speakers:
Conference Day 2
Friday 24 April 2020
Venue: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
08:30 - 12:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Day 2 (Auditorium, Studio)
08:30 - 09:30 S12: Integration of communities in HEIs and society at large
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; TU Darmstadt, Germany, TU Eindhoven, NL
Auditorium
08:30 - 09:30 S13: Transnational education: global education offer, local impact?
British Council, UK
Studio
09:30 - 10:30 S14: A globally relevant, locally appropriate Community Engagement
Classification
Brown University, USA
Auditorium
09:30 - 10:30 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
Studio
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 S16: Internationalization and Diversity: Competing or Complementary
Imperatives?
University of Bonn, TU Dresden, Germany; TU Delft, Netherlands; University of Gdansk,
Poland
Auditorium
11:00 - 11:30 S17: Never the twain shall meet? IHES in New Zealand and Indonesia
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Studio
11:30 - 12:00 S18: Orientation days as an element of international students’
"domestication"
Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Studio
12:00 - 13:15 CLOSING PLENARY (Auditorium)
12:00 - 13:00 Quo vadis IHES?
Lessons learned from the conference
DAAD, NAWA, British Council, Brown University, University of Göttingen, GII
13:00 - 13:15 Wrap up and what comes next
Uwe Brandenburg, Global Impact Institute
13:15 - 15:00 Finger food lunch and networking