A conference titled „Cooperation between HEIs and Business – why do we need to cooperate?” will start on October 25 in Ljubljana. The event will bring together academics, policy makers and international experts to share experiences and good practices in the initiatives and interventions on how can Higher Education institutions develop academic programs that will give students the knowledge and skills that today’s job market demands.
Conference programme is as follows:
9.00 – 9.20 Welcome speeches
Part I. Cooperation Between HEI and Businesses
9.20 – 9.35 Looking on Employability from University Business Cooperation
Samo Pavlin, DEHEMS and EMCOSU project, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
9.35 – 10.00 Role of HE Authority in enhancing HEI Engagement with business and society:: case of Ireland
Tim Conlon, Head of Enterprise Engagement, Higher Education Authority, Ireland
10.00 – 10.30 The University–Business Cooperation Ecosystem: A model for understanding the important elements affecting University–Business Cooperation
Arno Meerman, CEO of UIIN & Business Development Manager at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
Part II. Employers Perspective on Higher Education and Employability
11.00 – 11.30 Employers feedback on important elements of graduates employability
Julie Fionda, European Commission, Higher Education Policy Unit
11.30 – 12.00 Relevance of International Student Mobility to Work and Employment – comparison of findings in Brasil, Chile, Slovenia and Finland
Valeska V. Geldres W., University of La Frontera, Chile; University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Part III. Employability and Policy Perspective
12.00 – 12.40 Employability and higher education: what it is – what it is not
Sonia Hendy-Isaac, Birmingham City University
12.40 – 13.15 TUNING: A New Strategy for Modernising Higher Education Degree Programmes
Robert Wagennar, TUNING Academy, University of Groningen
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Parallel Workshops
Workshop 1: Pedagogy for Employability, Sonia Hendy-Isaac, Birmingham City University
Workshop 2: The TUNING Model for Designing, Implementing, Delivering and Enhancing Higher Education Curricula, Robert Wagennar, TUNING Academy, Groningen University
Workshop 3: Enhancing the Quality of practical placements of students – Internship guide Step by Step E.E. (Esther) Haag, University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00 Panel discussion: What next?
17:00 Closing of the conference