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Introduction. ECIU Profile ECIU Organisation ECIU Activities UT and ECIU. Rostov State University, Russia Tecnol ógico de Monterrey, Mexico Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

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  1. Introduction • ECIU Profile • ECIU Organisation • ECIU Activities • UT and ECIU

  2. Rostov State University, Russia • Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico • Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Membership in January 200711 European Universities202,000students28,000 staffPlus3 Associate Partners130,000 students,13,000 staff Linköpings universitet University of Strathclyde Aalborg Universitet University of Warwick Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Universiteit Twente Universität Dortmund Université de Technologie de Compiègne Politecnico di Torino Universidade de Aveiro Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona University of Strathclyde

  3. ECIU Profile: Common characteristics • Strengths in engineering and social sciences • Research intensive • Relatively young, with entrepreneurial values • Close ties to industry and the region • High quality education, new forms of teaching and • learning (PBL etc.) • Innovative approaches to management and • administration

  4. ECIU Mission (1) • ECIU objectives are: • To act as an agent of change by serving as example of best practice and to influence debate and policy on the future direction for European HE within the context of changing global realities • To contribute to the further development of a knowledge-based European economy, with due consideration of the global nature of HE by including overseas partners

  5. ECIU Mission (2) • To enhance quality by sharing best practices and learning from each in the areas of: • International collaboration • Teaching and learning • Regional development • Technology transfer • Staff and student development • To develop high-quality collaborative education programmes, building on the strengths of different partners

  6. ECIU Organisation • ECIU Executive Board • ECIU Steering Committees • (related to core activities) • ECIU Secretariat • ECIU Local Coordinators • ECIU Student Wing • ECIU PR-group General Meeting, Aalborg, May 2005

  7. ECIU Core Activities 1) ECIU Graduate School 2) Improved Student and Staff Mobility 3) University Industry Interaction

  8. ECIU Graduate School: Objectives • Joint curriculum development • Quality improvement • (built on strengths of partners) • Attract European funding • Joint solutions for administrative issues Chair of Steering Committee: Ulrich Killat, Vice-President, TUHH

  9. ECIU GS: Joint Master Programmes • Materials Science (Erasmus Mundus label) • Environmental Studies (Erasmus Mundus label) • Industrial Design and Manufacturing (incl. UT) • Innovation and Entrepreneurship (incl. UT) • Management of Innovation and Technology • Information and Communication Technologies • More programmes to be developed: • Engineering Life Sciences(incl. UT) • Energy and Sustainable Development(incl. UT) Project Manager: Randolph Galla, TUHH

  10. Improved Student and Staff Mobility: Objectives Chair of the Steering Committee: Anne Flierman, President, UT • To increase number of in- and outgoing students • To facilitate better conditions for student exchange • To promote staff exchange and stimulate staff • development

  11. Improved Student and Staff Mobility: Activities • ECIU Student Mobility Group • ECIU Staff Exchange Programme • ECIU Leadership Development Programme

  12. Student Mobility Group • Exchange agreements between (almost) all ECIU members • Database on possibilities and conditions for exchange between ECIU members • Twin programmes: exchange within pre-designed modules • ECIU Symposium on Global Competence (extra incentive for exchange students) Chair of working group: Barbara Schneider, UniDO

  13. Staff Exchange Programme • Target group: Administrative staff • Objective: learning from good practices • Short- to midterm stay at other ECIU partner • Facilitated by home and guest university • Contact person at each ECIU member

  14. Leadership Development Programme: Objectives • Increasing knowledge on HE systems, • university management and • international cooperation • Personal development of participants • Building a network of current/future • leaders 2004-05 Cohort in Aalborg, May 2005

  15. Leadership Development Programme: Main features • Target group: Senior and middle management (academic or administrative) • Duration: 1 year • 3 x 3 days, assignments between meetings • Coordinated by UT • 2006-2007: Third cohort

  16. University Industry Interaction • Objectives: • To benefit from exchange and good practices on technology transfer and knowledge exchange • To promote an Entrepreneurship and Innovation • agenda • Activities: • Entrepreneurship Research • DIFUSE / Technology Transfer in practice Chair of Steering Committee: Sònia Gonzáles, Barcelona

  17. Benchmark: The administration of innovative universities (1) • Participants: • Aalborg • Linköping • Strathclyde • Twente • Focus on: • Governance & Management Structures • Strategic Planning • Human Resources • External Relations

  18. Benchmark (2): Best practices • Aalborg: • Career services: graduate tracer studies &involvement of external stakeholders • Networks between researchers and industry/ organisations • Human resources: unique logistical support for international staff • Linköping: • Career services: unique connection with SMEs • Grants office staffed with PhD’s/graduate students • Graduate school model

  19. Benchmark (3): Best practices • Strathclyde: • Most fully developed external relations structure • Most formalised fundraising structure • Funding external relations offices by mix of core funding and income generating activities • Twente: • TOP Programme • Structure and procedures UMT • Decentral approach to branding

  20. UT and ECIU (1): People • ECIU Executive Board and Steering Committee Student and Staff Mobility: A. Flierman • ECIU Benchmark: P. Binsbergen • ECIU PR-group: W. van der Veen (BC) • ECIU Student Mobility: International Office • ECIU Staff Mobility: N.N. (PAO) • ECIU Leadership Development: H. Brouwer (CBO) • ECIU Student Wing: Student Union • ECIU Local Coordinator: A. Kohl (ABZ) • ECIU projects: different UT departments

  21. UT and ECIU (2): Spearhead activities UT • Student mobility • Staff exchange • Leadership Development

  22. UT and ECIU (3): What’s in it for me? • Best practices Benchmark project • Graduate School: Joint Master Programmes • Student mobility • Staff development • Best practices Technology Transfer

  23. More information: www.eciu.org

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