General Assembly – October 2008 - Prague

State of the UNICA

President’s Report 2007-2008

• Internationalisation & Mobility

• Education

• Research & Development

• Policy & Strategy

• Mission & Link with Society

• Other UNICA Activities

• Conclusions

Introduction

Internationalisation & Mobility

• IRO Meeting, Paris, April

• Student Conference 2008, Warsaw, September

• 4th UNICA Chair on Multilingualism, Lausanne

• UNICA Secretariat traineeship

Education

• 7th & 8th Bologna Lab Coordinators Meeting, Zagreb (December) and Dubrovnik (July)

• Erasmus Mundus Project “European Campus: Enhancing Overseas Student Mobility”

• Submission of “Be-twin ECTS/ECVET project”

• Running EC Projects

Research & Development

• EU Research Officers Seminar, Cyprus, Nov. 2008• PhD Seminar: “Enterprise-University Partnership in

Doctoral Education”, Paris, June• Meeting to prepare a Workshop for Advisors and

Directors of Doctoral Programmes, Paris, July• UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition for Students

and Young Researchers, 2009

Policy & Strategy

• UNICA Policy Statement

• Rector’s Seminar, Moscow (November) and Dubrovnik (July)

• Meeting with EC on Equal Opportunities, June

• “Minimum Standards” Recommendations

• Participation Chart 2008

Participation Chart 2008

Policy & Strategy

• 4th Scholarly Communication Seminar: “Partnership in Academic Excellence”, Prague, May

• Visit to Imperial College London and University College London

Mission & Link with Society

• Enchancing the partnership with the UCEU Network:

– Meeting with UCEU– Participation in the UCEU Annual General Assembly

• Curriculum Development: – Euromaster in Urban Studies– Cognitive Sciences Master

Other UNICA Activities

• Collective Associate Membership at the EUA

• Meetings for further Cooperation:– European Association of Conservatories– Welsh Higher Education Brussels representatives, …

• Articles on UNICA EC Projects

• Publications:– 4 UNICA e-newsletter– UNICA New office leaflet– Website: creation of PRIUM, HE Reform II and Tempus IV

web pages, creation of the Virtual Community of Bologna Experts

– Wikipedia

Conclusions

• Most of the UNICA scheduled activities of the Work Programme 2008 were achieved

• Moreover, new initiatives were taken

• Thanks to the EC funded projects the visibility and credibility of the Network in the EHEA have highly increased

• UNICA has really been a platform for exchange of best practices (academic and administrative) for member universities

Thanks to all UNICA members for their contribution to the Work Programme

Thanks to the UNICA contact persons

Thanks to the UNICA secretariat