ACA Seminar on Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 programmes.

Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) organizes on 29 – 30 January 2014 next in the series of „What's new in Brussels?” seminars devoted to recent developments in European Policies and Programmes. 2014 meeting will focus on Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 in the first place.

Seminarium agenda is as follows (detailed information is provided on the ACA website):

Wednesday 29 January

19.00

Seminar dinner

Thursday 30 January

08.30	Registrations and coffee
09.15	Welcome and introduction Bernd Wächter, Director, ACA (Brussels, Belgium)
	Session I: Erasmus+
09.30	Opening Keynote Higher education in Erasmus+: the final picture Adam Tyson, European Commission, DG Education and Culture (Brussels, Belgium)
10.15	The international dimension in Erasmus+ Claire Morel, European Commission, DG Education and Culture (Brussels, Belgium)
10.50	Coffee break
11.20	New opportunities: Strategic partnerships and knowledge alliances in Erasmus+ Siegbert Wuttig, Director European Programmes, DAAD (Bonn, Germany)
11.55	Stakeholder views on Erasmus+: a panel discussion Florence Balthasar, European Advisor for Education, Swisscore (Brussels, Belgium) Stefan Delplace, Secretary-General, EURASHE (Brussels, Belgium) Inge Knudsen, Director, Coimbra Group (Brussels, Belgium) Rok Primožič,Vice-Chairperson, ESU (Brussels, Belgium)
13.00	Sandwich lunch
14.00	Afternoon keynote U-Multirank: the state of play Don Westerheijden, Review committee Higher Education and Research, University of Twente (Twente, The Netherlands)
	Session II: Horizon 2020
14.45	Horizon 2020: the final picture Sieglinde Gruber, European Commission, DG Research (Brussels, Belgium) (tbc)
15.20	Marie Sklodowska-Curie in Horizon 2020 Bodo Richter, European Commission, DG Education and Culture (Brussels, Belgium)
15.55	What European universities expect from Horizon 2020 Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary-General, LERU (Leuven, Belgium)
16.30	Conclusions and farewell Bernd Wächter, Director, ACA (Brussels, Belgium)

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