
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 Bošković 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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