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Thursday 21 October 2010

16.30 – 18.00         Opening Ceremony: Perspectives on the conference theme

• Giovanni Puglisi, President of the «Fondazione Banco di Sicilia», Italy

Friday 22 October 2010

9.00 – 10.30            Plenary Session I: Keynote speeches on the conference theme 
                                “diversities and commonalities– the changing face of Europe’s universities”

• Alex Usher, President of Higher Education Strategy Associates (formerly known as EPI Canada) and Editor-in-Chief of Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor
• Sybille Reichert, Director of Reichert Consulting for Higher Education, Switzerland, and author of the EUA report on Institutional Diversity in European Higher Education will provide reflections on the presentations.

11.00 – 13.00            Working Group Sessions (I): Designing and implementing institutional strategies 

1. Institutional Profiles:

• Kalervo Väänänen, Academic Rector, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Finland 
• Jo Ritzen, President, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2. Staff Profiles:

• Josep Joan Moreso, Rector, University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Chris McNairney, Director of Human Resources, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Ireland

3. Student Profiles:

• Lennart Olausson, Vice-Chancellor, Malmö University, Sweden
• Serban Agachi, President Academic Council, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania

4. Institutional research strategies and profiles:

• Jörg-Thomas Baaken, Head of “Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre”, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Petr Fiala, Rector, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

14.30 – 15.45            Plenary Session II: Diversity in Excellence:

• Bert Vandenkendelaere, Chair of European Students' Union (ESU), Belgium
• Tom Collins, President, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland
• Bernd Huber, President of Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany, and Chairman of LERU

16.15 – 17.45            Working Group Sessions (II): Designing and implementing institutional strategies

1. Institutional Profiles:

• Ole Petter Ottersen, Rector, University of Oslo, Norway
• António Rendas, Rector, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and President of the Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (CRUP)

2. Staff Profiles:

• Lauritz B.Holm-Nielsen, EUA Board Member and Rector, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Dirk J. van den Berg, President, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands  

3. Student Profiles:

• Glynis Cousin, Director of the Institute of Learning Enhancement, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
• Jukka Kola, Vice-Rector, University of Helsinki, Finland

4. Institutional research strategies and profiles:

• Francesco Paolo La Mantia, Faculty Dean, University of Palermo, Italy
• Heinz Engl, Vice-Rector, University of Vienna, Austria

Saturday 23 October 2010

09.00 – 10.30            Plenary Session III: Strengths of European diversity in a global context 

• Clifford Adelman, Senior Associate with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), United States
• Brian O'Connell, Rector & Vice-Chancellor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

11.00 – 12.30        Plenary Session IV: 

• Report from the General Rapporteur Andrée Sursock,  EUA Senior Adviser, on the outcomes of the WGs
• Key Note speech from Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism
  and Youth, European Commission: “The growing diversity of European higher education (diversity of
  institutional, staff and student as well as research profiles) – implications for the further development
  of the Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education”.

12.30 – 13.00        Closing Ceremony

• Invitation to EUA Annual Conference 2011 in Aarhus, Denmark by Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Rector, University of Aarhus, Denmark