Cross Atlantic Partnership in Network Systems and Information Management

1. A CAMIM Research Seminar5thJune, 2013, Pécs Cross Atlantic Partnership in Network Systems and Information Management Lucille Landry, Manager International Mobility Service Université de Moncton, Canada

2. Consortium Members CANADA Université de Moncton, New Brunswick (Lead) University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario University of Manitoba, Manitoba EUROPE Université de Bretagne-Sud, France (Lead) University of Pécs, Hungary Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland

3. Outcomes of the Consortium • Seamless credit transfer among consortium partner institutions; • Student mobility among the consortium’s participants through mutual recognition and portability of academic credits and faculty exchange; • Opportunities to work towards achieving proficiency in a second language, to familiarize with a foreign language and to understand different effects that culture can have on their field of expertise; • Opportunities to work and conduct research within the members’ countries; • Learn how to document the IT environment and how to optimize the information management; • Build a research network that will benefit to the Canadian and European professors and students;

4. Outcomes of the Consortium • Acquire skills and real life experience to deliver secure IT services; • Increased cross-cultural understanding through student mobility and online communication; • Internships providing quality practice knowledge to students; • Joint research projects with the participation of both teachers and students; • Sustainability of the project and its outcomes beyond the lifetime of the project; • Specific outcomes related to the CAMIM model.

5. Student Mobility From Canada to Europe Moncton: 4 students to Turku + 1 student to UBS +1 internship to Turku Manitoba: 6 students to Pécs + 1 student to UBS UOIT: 5 students to Turku + 2 students to Pécs From Europe to Canada UBS: 2 students to Moncton + 1 student to UOIT + 2 students toManitoba Turku: 3 students to UOIT + 2 students to Manitoba Pécs: 3 students to UOIT + 2 students to Manitoba + 2students toMoncton/ Shippagan

6. Faculty Mobility From Canada to Europe Moncton: 2 to UBS UOIT: 2 to Turku From Europe to Canada UBS: 2 to Moncton Turku: 2 to UOIT Pécs: 1 to UOIT, 1 to Manitoba, (+1 toTurku within ERASMUS)

7. Faculty Mobility - Example • Meeting with Fairspectrum to follow on the joint research project with Nokia and TUAS; • Meeting with a senior Technology Manager at Nokia to follow on the joint research project with Fairspectrum and TUAS; • Lecture on Biometrics in the information security course; • Visit of the Business Academy unit and meeting with two faculty members and coop students; • Visit of the Field measurement unit for the TV White Space project; • Meeting with the Canadian students at TUAS to follow on their research/capstone progress and their courses; • Meeting with director of education; • Visit of the Cisco lab and Game Tech and Arts Lab at TUAS; • Attended the R&D day at TUAS.

8. Faculty Mobility - Example • Meetings with various faculty members to discuss potential research collaborations; • Meeting with the Dean, Faculty of Business and Information Technology; • Meetings with student on campus from Pécs; • Tours and work in campus facilities and labs; • Guest lecturing in classes; • Hosted research seminar (and attended research seminars); • Collaborative work with Dr. Khalil El-Khatib and Dr. Miguel Vargas Martin.

9. Meetings 2010: Berlin, Germany (kick-off meeting forCoordinators) 2011: Lorient & Vannes, France (Coordinators’ meeting) 2012: Moncton and Shippagan, Canada(Coordinators’ meeting) 2013: Pécs, Hungary (Research Seminar andCoordinators’ meeting)

10. Research & Presentations • Khalil El-Khatib from UOIT and JarkkoPaavola from Turku: “Research problem on TV White Spaces”; • “Protocol to Access WS database (PAWS) protocol” (Miguel); • Fang Chen from University of Manitoba: “Curriculum design development and globalization”; • Hungarian student who went to UOIT gave a lecture on her experience at the 9th SEFBIS Conference on Information Management in Fall 2012, Győr; • UOIT students in research with Dr. JarkkoPaavola during their exchange term at TUAS, students had opportunities to present their research findings at the Nokia Headquarters in Espoo, Finland; • Web tools developed by Pécs students to improve data gathering on the ground for the Coastal Zone Research Institute (Shippagan, Canada); • Set up and content management by Pécs students of the LARIHS lab. online repository dedicated to language industry (Shippagan, Canada).

11. Case studies • Case studies have been compiled by all participating universities; • A full course has been accredited at the Faculty of Business of the University of Pécs in Spring 2011; • CAMIM booklet of 70 pages with case methodology, teaching notes and case studies was published in 2012 in English and in Hungarian.

12. Promotion • Website; • Course info for mobility students; • University reports; • Brochures; • PowerPoint presentation; • Video • BookletwithAbstractsfor Research Seminar.

13. Comments from students Be brave and open-minded to this programme, because it provides a great opportunity to meet people from other cultures and to improve your language skills and knowledge in the main field of your studies I would recommend for any potential CAMIM students to definitely participate in the program, as it is an excellent opportunity to further your education and gain invaluable international experience

14. Strengths of the Consortium • Wide selection of courses in different areas of technology; • Students and faculties discovered new ways of working and studying and learned how the systems work in Canada and Europe; • Real investments of the students who participated in the project during and after their exchange; • Good collaboration between consortia members, a positive working atmosphere was created during the consortium meetings; • New places for Canadian students to study, which were not possible before the project, and vice versa.

15. Weaknesses of the Consortium • Two institutions were francophone, i.e. difficult for the other partners to send students; • Some institutions havereceived more students than others; • Difficult for the project partners to motivate their colleagues at their home institution to take initiatives in the project; • Each consortium membershad to carry the whole project often alone at his/her home institution; • Excessive workloads and lack of time; • Lack of motivation due to the end of such programs by the government.

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