Conference about European Universities
Mikael Ejdebäck (HIS) and Eric Dargent (URN) have participated as Ingenium members in a trilateral conference (17-18 NOV 2022, Stockholm) for alliances with members from France, Germany, Sweden called: European Universities, What’s next?
During the first day, three round table discussion had take place on Curricula and the degrees, on Research within the alliances and on Student participation. Old and new alliances as well as alliances not yet funded participated in the round tables. The second day, four workshops took place on SDG, lifelong learning, applied research and links to ecosystems. The exchanges were interesting, the oldest alliances were able to show the diversity of the university alliances in Europe, and their efforts,success as well as the challenges they have experienced so far. The need to bring the academic community and even more so the students into the operative alliance work appeared to be an absolute priority.
First face-to-face meeting between XAMK and URN partners
The first face-to-face meeting between international relations staff of South Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK) – partner of the INGENIUM network since February 2022 – and University of Rouen Normandy (URN), took place in the URN’s Mont-Saint-Aignan campus on June 9.
The members of the two universities discussed their international strategies and shared good practices on course digitalisation, student mobility and inter-institutional agreements.
The INGENIUM partner universities continue to build their cooperation within the network and aim to achieve their goal of becoming a European University alliance.