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The Bologna-Process as a Challenge for University Management and Administration

Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V.Bonn July, 7th,8th 2006

HUMANE NETWORK www.humane.eu

Heads of University Management & Administration Network in Europe

Rafael Zorrilla

HUMANE Chairman

rafael.zorrilla@uc3m.es

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HUMANE

• Heads of University Management & Administration Network in Europe

• HUMANE was set up in 1997 with the aim of grouping all heads of university administration in Europe in an informal network devoted to professional development and best practice.

• 200 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES– 16 GERMAN UNIVERSITIES

• FROM 25 DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

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HUMANE MISSION ( R.Table, Brussels Jun06 )

HUMANE – a driver for professional administration in European univ.

 HUMANE is a network of professional excellence which

• Provides rich opportunities for HoAs and their staff to meet and exchange experiences, share good practice and facilitate innovation in HEIs.

•  Supports HoAs as leaders within their organizations.

• Disseminates knowledge and skills of high relevance for the administration of European HEIs.

• Enhances operational leadership, day-to-day management, and administration as a profession crucial to the success of HEIs.

• Reinforces the relationships between academic and administrative leadership in HEIs.

• Provides advice to and works with European agencies to influence the development of efficient management procedures for higher education and research.

 

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HUMANE WORKING LINES

• SEMINARS

• WINTER SCHOOL

• STUDY VISITS

• COOPERATION WITH EUA

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HUMANE SEMINARS

• 5-6 per year. > 50 since 1997• For Heads of Admin. Strategic visions

and debate on Finance, Government, Financial, HR, ICT, Change processes, .... Issues

• Focus on qualitative benchmarking and in informal but efficient contacts among active HoAs

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The role of the gerente (Kanzler) in Spanish Universities. Is it

possible to put order in Chaos?

HUMANE Seminars

GOVERNANCE

Pavía 15th, 16th October 2004

Fernando Casani.Univ Autonoma Madrid

AN EXAMPLE : PAVIA SEMINAR. Oct-04

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UNIVERSITY NETWORK

Gerente

Rector

SocialCouncil

Regional Government

Vice-rectors

Teaching staff

Administrativestaff

Deans

Students

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO PUT ORDER IN CHAOS?

The gerente does not control revenues or the allocation of expenses.

He has no power over teaching staff and is in charge of administrative and services staff, by mandate, and without the possibility of incentives.

He must establish management procedures that assure the rendering of accounts and increase management and financing efficiency.

He must do everything, taking into account that the Rector cannot loose the support of the teaching and administrative staff, which guarantees his continuity.

Is it possible?

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PRACTICAL PROFILE• A person on whom the Rector has absolute confidence

(all the powers necessary to exercise his mission are granted by the Rector)

• Manager of the Management Board policies. Good relations with vice-rectors in order to implement policies that help to achieve management goals.

• Responsible for the rendering of accounts. Good relations with the Social Council

• Responsible for procedure design and improvement actions. Good relations with deans and administrators

• Responsible for labour relations with administrative and services staff . Good relations with trade unions

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HUMANE WORKING LINES( cont.)

• WINTER SCHOOL ( WS )– For Universities senior administrators.– Started in 2003. 4 editions. More than 100 alumni ;

WS Alumni Network set up and running

• STUDY VISITS :– For HoA´s and senior staff– Intensive and well prepared visits to prestigiuos

Universities. Oct 06 to University of Helsinki and Helsinki School of Economics

• Cooperation with EUA– EUA Bologna Handbook– Funding

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HUMANE 2007 ACTIVITIES

PLANNING HUMANE 2007 ACTIVITIES CLT/17-06-06

Presented to Round Table meeting 17-06-06

SEMINARSFEB 16-17or 23-24 PORTO MEDICAL SCHOOLS In cooperation with DEANMAR 23-24 TURIN HUMAN RESOURCESJUN 15-16 KARLSRUHE FINANCE

SEP 21-22 or 28-29 LYON NEW SERVICES CENTERSOCT 19-20 SALFORD GOVERNANCE In cooperation with EUA ??

ROUND TABLEMAY 25-26 MADRID 10TH ANNIVERSARY

WINTER SCHOOLMAR BARCELONA 5th EDITION

STUDY VISITSUTRECHT

WSAN MEETINGNOV

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TRIESTE SEMINAR. 15-16 SEP06 ( Agenda )

Universities as international players ; The Internationalisation of Higher Education. Trieste, 15-16 September 2006

Joint Seminar with Winter School Alumni Network  

Friday 15 September

14:00 Welcome

 14:15 Universities in the International Arena: Looking Forward.Hans de Wit

 15:15 Break

 15:45 The competitive approachTim Westlake, University of Manchester

16:30 Best practice examples

Example 1: Building the international brand: a case study of internationalisation strategy formation at City University, London, Ian Creagh

Example Example 2 : Repositioning, Adrian Graves

18:00 Conclusions

18:15 Finish

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TRIESTE SEMINAR. 15-16 SEP06 ( Agenda )

Saturday 16 September

 9:00 The cooperative approach Giovanna Filippini, University of Bologn

9:45 Best practice examples

Example 1: Cooperation in French speaking universities

Example 2: Joint Awards, Mary Hughes

 11:00 11:00 Break

 11:30 Managing Internationalisation: Best practices in preparing university services for internationalisation.

-University of Eastern Piedmont´s experience Mobility of Researchers: SISA´S experience, Giuliana Zotta & Tatiana Usenich

- Student support in Italy, Pasquale Mastrodomenico an his colleage

 13:30 Conclusions

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BARCELONA 13-14 OCT06 ( Abstract´extract )

Open HUMANE seminar on Management Challenges related to Research Funding.

This seminar is devoted to the management challenges that arise in the new European research funding landscape. This does not only cover the perhaps first thought of European dimensions, such as the 7th Framework Programme, the European institute of technology and the European Research Council. There are also trends in national research funding, which appear to be spreading within the Union.

 Insights in the politics on the European level to be given by Mr Bjarne Kirsebom, Minister for Research in the Swedish delegation to the Commission.

 Dr Leonidas Karapiperis from DG Research.

Present trends in the U.K will be introduced by Jon Nicholls at the University of Birmingham

  

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The organization of Research Services of our Round Table host, the Vrije Universiteit Brüssel, has had good evaluation results and will be presented by the V.U.B: Vice-Rector for Research (speaker to be confirmed).

We are presently searching for a colleague to give an idea of how the German research funding system functions, with its large dependences on foundations.

The Seminar host, the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona is one of the leading Spanish research universities. Our colleague Gustau Folch is, even though this is a long weekend in Spain, working on a visit to a top-line laboratory and discussions with researchers on practical issues related to research funding.

BARCELONA OCT-06 ( Abstract´extract )

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MORE INFORMATION

• www.humane.eu• Carlos Lopez-Terradas, HUMANE

Network Mgr. carlos.lopez-terradas@uc3m.es

Vielen Dank !!!.

Rafael Zorrilla, rafael.zorrilla@uc3m.es

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ANEXOS POSIBLES

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1. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE OF

SPANISH PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

State RegionalGovernment

SocialCouncil

Gerente

Legal framework

Financing

Economic supervisionGovernment

Board

Rector

Spanish public universities

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4. THE GERENTE AS A NETWORK MANAGER ?

• NOT A GENERAL MANAGER…

• NOT A MERE EXECUTOR…

• A NETWORK MANAGER?

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NOT A GENERAL MANAGER…

• He does not have influence on revenues• He does not control products (teaching

and research) or academic decisions• He does not decide the allocation of

expenses• He has no responsibility over most part

of the staff (teaching staff)

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NOT A MERE EXECUTOR…

• In charge of economic and administrative management

• He is an individual administrative body

• Takes an active part in the work of every collegiate administrative body

• Responsible, by mandate, of administrative and services staff

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A NETWORK MANAGER?

• University could be defined as a network of activities, management and economic flows, defined by power relations

• The network must achieve certain institutional goals

• Each network node (stakeholders) has its own interests and its corresponding quota of power to protect them