Welcome to EURASHE Insights bringing you information on what happened in the past month and our new projects and activities to come. |
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''EURASHE ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT, COMMISSIONERS GABRIEL AND FERREIRA INVITE PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION TO CONTRIBUTE TO RECOVERY'' |
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EURASHE 30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE | 20-21 MAY |
EURASHE, together with its Portuguese members and with the support of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU organised its 30th Annual Conference 'Professional Higher Education for Sustainable Development: creating a Change that Endures' which took place the 20-21 of May.
The first-ever online EURASHE Annual Conference. The conference attracted 400 registrations from more than 20 countries.
Commissioner Ferreira spoke about the key role that green and digital skills play in the recovery and regeneration of today’s Europe, which describes the conference's overarching theme. Anita Lehikoinen addressed how PHE and Universities of Applied Sciences are playing a vital role in the Finish education system. Sandrine Dixson-Declève spoke about rethinking how we look at education, introducing new learning ways to encourage lifelong learning.
The crisis requires new answers via transformative big actions and starkly exposed division and inequalities. Overall, Professional Higher Education can play a strong role in the collaboration at city and region level and can build on the skills needed to deliver the EU’s Green Deal.
All the recordings of the event are still available on the event platform, for the registered participants, until the end of the month.
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The next EURASHE Annual Conference will take place on 23 - 24 May 2022 in Brussels, Belgium in cooperation with the EURASHE Belgian French-speaking community members, EPHEC and ARES. The conference will address topics of skills relevance, inclusion, digitalisation and innovation.
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EURASHE METS WITH COMMISSIONER MARIYA GABRIEL |
On 11th June the new EURASHE Board enjoyed a very stimulating and constructive meeting with Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.
The Commissioner urged Universities of Applied Sciences and other Professional Higher Education Institutions to take an active role in constructing the European Innovation Area as well as contributing to the development of less developed regions, especially in the Western Balkans where she sees a lot of potential. Recently elected President Armando Pires updated the Commissioner on the priorities and latest activities of EURASHE, in particular the European Universities Alliances, microcredentials and applied research and innovation. Other members of the Board underlined the contribution of EURASHE to the Skills Agenda, the twin transitions (digital and green), as well as regional innovation ecosystems. A fruitful discussion took place on the objectives and expectations for the proposed ERA Hubs. On behalf of all EURASHE members, the Board would like to warmly thank the Commissioner for her availability and strong support for professional higher education.
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NEW EURASHE LEADERSHIP TEAM |
The General Assembly has elected Armando Pires as our new President. Armando brings a wealth of experience to his role, having served as EURASHE Vice-President since 2016 as well as Chair of the Working Group on Applied RDI. He is a former President of the Setubal Polytechnic institute.
Alicia-Leonor Sauli-Miklavčič and Ulf-Daniel Ehlers were elected as Vice-Presidents, while three new members have joined the Executive Board: A warm welcome to Jon Altuna (Mondragon University, Spain), Ana Tecilazić Goršić (Croatian Council of Universities and University Colleges of Applied Sciences) and Hannes Raffaseder (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria). Michal Karpíšek remains acting as a Secretary General until the appointment of new person who will take over from November 2021.
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OUTCOMES FROM THE 'PHE CLUB EVENT: MICRO - CREDENTIALS ON PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION' |
On 30 April 2021, EURASHE organised the PHE CLUB event on Micro-credentials. This event was part of EURASHE’s wider engagement in the European policy discussions on micro-credentials. It built discussions on the role and potential of micro-credentials in professional higher education (PHE) upon the inputs from the European Commission, Business Europe and Canadian colleges and polytechnics.
Micro-credentials fall under one of the key priorities of the European Commission, and are included in the achievement of the European Education Area by 2025, the European Skills Agenda, and the Digital Education Action Plan. will be publishing its statement on micro-credentials in professional higher education (PHE) by the end of June 2021.
EURASHE conducted a survey bringing views of 216 respondents registered for the event, about half of whom had at least some experience with the provision of micro-credentials within their institutions. There seems to be a need for clearer guidelines and criteria for micro-credentials, a European approach supporting higher education institutions in the implementation of micro-credentials and capacity building.
More information on the key issues identified during relevant EURASHE activities will be reflected in the EURASHE position paper, which will be published at the end of June as an input into the European Commission’s Open Public Consultation.
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LATEST UASiMAP PROJECT NEWS |
UASiMAP promotes the use of self-reflection tools and supports a systemic change in European Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) by working on their local impact on innovation, cooperation
patterns with public and private subjects, contribution on employment, responsiveness to community needs and knowledge transfer capabilities, with a multi-actor approach.
This literature review focuses on the selected set of relevant articles, reports, and project results highlighting HEIs’ regional engagement indicators.
Reports on the regional engagement of Universities of Applied Sciences in Estonia and Belgium Flanders have just been released. These reports show Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) and their regional engagement respectively in Estonia and Belgium Flanders.
The reports present important analytical data and explain the present situation, evolution, and trends of development of the Professional Higher Education sector, focusing on the UAS. Providing a qualitative overview of the variety of UAS regional engagement in both countries.
The respective national reports on the regional engagement of Universities of Applied Sciences in Hungary, Portugal and Ireland will be published by the end of June 2021 and will be accessible on the UASiMAP project website.
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The MentorTrain project aims at supporting mentors in companies (particularly in SMEs), who are working with students and apprentices from professional higher educational institutions at EQF levels 5-7. The success of apprenticeships is very much dependent on the quality of the education process of transferring knowledge and developing practical skills.
The MentorTrain online course is accessible on the project website. It provides short learning modules for mentors in different areas related to the apprenticeship process and mentors' role in English, Basque, Czech, Estonian and Spanish. The course consists of 22 modules, categorised into 6 sections. Individual users are welcome to browse the course content and learn from them at their own time and pace. The online course modules are designed so that they can be followed in full or whereas individual topics where you may like to learn more.
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 2021 ONLINE EUROPEAN QUALITY ASSURANCE FORUM (EQAF) |
EQAF is a landmark event in quality assurance organised annually in mid-November by EUA, ENQA, ESU, and EURASHE and regularly attracts more than 400 participants from the higher education quality assurance community from Europe and beyond.
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LOTUS - Leadership development programme in learning and teaching |
The Leadership Development Programme will offer European higher education institutions an opportunity to address the key challenges in learning and teaching that they are currently facing by fostering capacity building in implementing systematic approaches to enhancement.
Under the call, 20-30 European higher education institutions will be selected to participate in peer-learning activities, based on their own institutional priorities in learning and teaching. The Leadership Development Programme will kick off with an induction workshop on 4-5 October 2021 and will last until June 2022.
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SURVEY - UAS4EUROPE: Sustainable Development Goals |
Sustainability sits at the core of a future-proof, resilient and competitive Europe. As part of the Agenda 2030, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identify 17 interlinked global goals that pave the way towards a more sustainable world by 2030. Against the backdrop of increasing sustainability awareness across all sectors, UAS4EUROPE, the leading voice of European Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS), is convinced that UAS are indispensable actors in achieving the SDGs due to their regional embeddedness and market-oriented research.
UAS4EUROPE would like to use this survey to hear from you and your work in sustainability. This will take no more than 10-15 minutes of your time and will help UAS4EUROPE identify the most important priorities and processes to support you in your contributions to achieving the SDGs on the European level.
Deadline: 10 July
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UAS4EUROPE Networking Conference 2021 |
On 11 May 2021 UAS4EUROPE held its third Networking Conference titled ‘From breakthrough ideas to breakthrough innovation'.
With around 400 participants, the UAS4EUROPE conference was kicked off with high-level keynote speakers as well as a political panel discussion in the morning. With the presence of Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport. The speakers represented the European institutions, industry, regions and Universities of Applied Sciences.
The afternoon was dedicated to Networking activities. Participants could join several interactive workshops about topics concerning the new framework programme Horizon Europe and other highly relevant European initiatives, and many used the possibility for face-to-face meetings.
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EURASHE AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF PHE TO RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT |
by Armando Pires, newly elected President of EURASHE
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With more than thirty years of activity, EURASHE is the most representative organisation of Professional Higher Education (PHE) institutions/associations at policy level in Europe and “strives to support the development and transformation of European society through PHE”. This means an added responsibility to reach the common interests of its members and contribute to the sustainable development of the society, with real impact on people’s qualification, in the search for innovative solutions to problems, in contributing with PHE to a better and more inclusive society.
We are living through a historical period of transformations in our lives and the European HE, with the growing importance of flexibility and diversity, with all the main themes on the agenda, the twin transition (digital and green), the recovery and resilient facility, the new ERA agenda, the European Universities alliances, the regional engagement and the innovation ecosystems, the micro-credentials, etc., and, consequently, the growing importance of PHE.
[...] We need to be present for that we need to be involved, we need to share tasks and responsibilities, we need to think ahead, and we need to face the challenges and take the opportunities.
And what can EURASHE expect from the new President? Hard-work, cooperation, sensibility, engagement, leadership, resilience, transparency, respect, accountability, responsibility and availability.
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The European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) represents +600 universities of applied sciences and university colleges, national and sectorial associations of higher education institutions, and other individual institutions, such as universities.
EURASHE’s mission is to strengthen the impact of innovative, high quality professional higher education and related user-oriented research in Europe by representing professional higher education institutions and facilitating their multi-stakeholder cooperation and dialogue.
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RESEARCH & INNOVATION: MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS |
HORIZON EUROPE INFO DAYS | 26 June - 9 July |
The European Commission announces today the first edition of the Horizon Europe info-days, to take place online from 28 June to 9 July 2021.
The 10-day event will give the opportunity to prospective applicants, and other stakeholders of EU research and innovation, to receive information and ask questions about the novelties, main funding instruments and processes of Horizon Europe.
The Horizon Europe info-days will address 9 themes, each featuring a programme of exclusive discussions and hands-on sessions, dedicated to a different cluster or part of the new programme.
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CO-DESIGNING THE NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS |
The New European Bauhaus proposes focusing our conversations on the places we inhabit and our relationship with natural environments beyond the built space.
It is a practical approach to discover beautiful, sustainable and inclusive ways of living and to use them to inspire our way forward.
Our shared journey starts by getting to know each other and by understanding what this initiative means to each one of us. Please join if you want to connect with a growing community interested in building beautiful, sustainable, inclusive places to live together after the pandemic.
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