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Verbatim from the event dedicated to "Assessment, an essential step towards the European Higher Education and Research Area"
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Opening Session. Assessing higher education, research and innovation in the EU
Thierry Coulhon, President of the Hcéres
Clément Beaune, Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
Michaela Šojdrová, Member of the European Parliament (European People’s Party), Rapporteur on the European Education Area
Claire Giry, Director General for Research and Innovation (DGRI), Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation
Session 1. Strengths and weaknesses of the European higher education, research and innovation area on the international stage. What higher education-research-innovation-employability continuum ?
Manuel Tunon de Lara, President of France Universités
Anna Panapogoulou, Director of the European Research Area and Innovation, European Commission
Maria Leptin, President of the ERC (European Research Council)
Chan Basaruddin, Vice President of INQAAHE (International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education)
Session 2. What are the challenges in terms of evaluation for European agencies and higher education stakeholders?
Round Table 1. How to design evaluation in the European Higher Education Area ? Feedback from the founders of the ESG
Douglas Blackstock, President of ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education)
Maria Kelo, Director of the Institutional Development of EUA (European University Association)
John Edwards, Secretary General of EURASHE (European Association of Institutions in Higher Education)
Jakub Grodecki, Vice-president of ESU (European Student Union)
Colin Tück, Director of EQAR (European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education)
Round Table 2. First steps and perspectives of European universities – what future for such alliances?
Fabienne Péraldi-Leneuf, Vice President in charge of Europe at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, Co-president Una Europa at Paris-1
Sofia Costa D'Aguiar, Director General of EELISA (European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance)
Pierre Koch, Director of the Université Technologique de Troyes, coordinator of the European University of Technology (EUt+)
Jolanta Silka, Director of the AIC (Academic Information Centre, Latvia, member of the EUniQ project)
Sandra Bezjak, Director of ASHE (Agency for Science and Higher Education, Croatie)
Discussion by Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, Head of the Higher Education Unit, Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission
Session 3. What are the challenges in terms of evaluation for European agencies and higher education stakeholders?
Round Table 1. First steps and perspectives of European universities – what future for such alliances?
Antonio Uricchio, President of ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes)
Theodor Leiber, Scientific Advisor and higher education researcher at Evalag (German Agency for evaluation in the Länder of Baden-Württemberg)
Petr Noskievič, Board member at the NAB (National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education, Czech Republic)
Anders Söderholm, Director General of UKÄ (Swedish Higher Education Authority)
Round Table 2. What shall be the challenges for the future of research assessment in the EU?
Kostas Glinos, Head of the Open Science Unit, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission
Lidia Borrell-Damian, Secretary General of Science Europe
Stephen Curry, Chair of DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)
Deborah Chery, Member of the working group on research integrity and assessment at Eurodoc (European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers)
Closing Session
Thierry Coulhon, President of the Hcéres
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Honorary professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHÉS)
Photos : © Benjamin Girette