Board initiative

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Board initiative
NOVA Strategy 2004-2006

• to review status and achievements
• to assess how resources are used
• to formulate new guiding principles of the 3-year
  period
• to clarify mission, vision, strategies and
  objectives, priorities and limits.

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NOVA Strategy

• Board decision 27 February 2004.
• Long process, great effort and serious
  commitment!

• 3-year-period
• Relatively short time perspective, but relevant
  in relation to the fast changes in the
  surrounding world.

• Adjustments probably necessary under way

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NOVA Strategy

• I Tasks and strategic goals, including timetable
  and steps/results up to now.

• II Identity, profile, image and organization,
  including structure and functions.

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Name of the organization
NOVA UN or NOVA
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Vision
The NOVA member universities shall use the NOVA
University Network as one of their primary
organizations for international cooperation in
scientific education and joint actions. They
shall have confidence in the network, and be
cognizant of the benefits that NOVA membership
offers.
Internationally, NOVA will seek to achieve
recognition as a model, for the scientific
competence and quality of its work, and for the
effective and innovative ways in which the
Network has established successful cooperation.
This vision is to be fully realized by 2010.
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Tasks 2004-2006
NOVA University Network shall

• facilitate co-operation and sharing of
  competence in education
• facilitate delivery of higher quality in
  teaching at equal or lower costs than the member
  institutions can deliver on their own
• serve as a forum for discussion of teaching and
  education matters

• co-ordinate, on behalf of the NOVA institutions,
  actions relating to common research and education
  issues vis-à-vis the Nordic Council of Ministers
  and other organizations of special Nordic
  interest, including industry

• work to overcome internal and external
  constraints that may counteract the collaboration
  in education, teaching and research.

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Main areas for development and change

• Focus on the priority areas of advanced
  level/MSc education and PhD courses
• Overcoming constraints to collaboration
• External relations and finance
• Identity, profile, image and organization

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NOVA Board decisions to strengthen focus on
specific areas

• NOVA shall focus on two areas of education
  advanced level/MSc and PhD teaching.

• Priorities shall be given to mutual recognition
  of BSc level degrees as the starting point for
  MSc level studies. As a rule, education at
  bachelor level will be the responsibility of the
  member institutions.

• New research networks shall in principle be
  accepted only as direct continuation of
  successful MSc/PhD networks, or if they include
  such activities. NOVA shall not take
  responsibility for funding research projects.

• Teaching networks shall only be supported within
  priority areas. Requests for new networks shall
  be approved by KUF. Pedagogical cooperation shall
  be continued.

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Focus on co-operation on MSc level

• The last two years!
• Exceptions
• Agroecology
• Danish-Swedish Horticulture Education (DSH)

• Priority/model areas 2004
• Agroecology (ext. evaluation 2003)
• Aquaculture
• Biosystems Engineering
• Plant pathology (int. half-time evaluation
  2004)
• Food Science
• Horticulture and DSH
• Urban greening/Urban forestry
• Veterinary medicine, last year diff.
• NOVA Pedictnet

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Strategic objective

• Initiate mutual course recognition and facilitate
  student mobility at MSc level.
• Status report by the end of 2004.

• Process has started in a number of networks
• Some courses approved as NOVA courses
• NOVA guarantee for student mobility 2003/2004

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Strategic objective
Develop and carry out an experiment using
e-based learning, funded from outside, in at
least one model area. To be established at the
end of 2004 and evaluated at the end of 2005.

• Some preliminar areas 2004-2005
• Euroforester (SLU, KVL, BOVA, Russia, Poland and
  Germany)
• Plant Pathology (HU, SLU, BOVA?)
• Agroecology (NLH, SLU, BOVA?)
• AgroBiotech ? (NOVA, BOVA, ScanBalt)
• Biodiversity (BOVA?, Nordic teachers?)
• External funding from NCM.

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Focus on NOVA PhD courses since start Success
story!

• From ca 10 to ca 15 courses/year
• A great variety of courses

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Research (PhD) Courses 2003
Topic Course title Credits Course period
Radio Ecology Radio Ecology 5 ECTS 6-17
January 2003, (2-6 June 2003) Animal
nutrition Farm animal nutrition and Feed
Technology 3 ECTS 10-20 June 2003 Plant
breeding In Vitro Cultures and Plant Breeding 6
ECTS 3-9 March 2003 Crop production science Crop
Physiological Aspects of Climate Change 9
ECTS 24-28 April 2003 Animal breeding Quantative
Genetics in Animal Breeding 4,5 ECTS 4-15 August
2003 Veterinary Epidemiology Postgrad course in
Veterinary Epidemiology 6 ECTS Reproduction Domest
ic Animal Reproduction 2 ECTS 25-29 August
2003 Plant Pathology Plant Disease Epidemics in
Space and Time 6 ECTS Summer or Fall
2003 Horticulture Sustainable Production in
Horticulture 8 ECTS Forest Pathology Microbial
Communities and Population 5 ECTS 22-28 May
2003 Informatics in Agricult. Reasoning under
Uncertainty in Agriculture 6 ECTS 10-21 August
2003 Bayesian and Graphical Methods Agro
Ecology and Values, Ideology, Science and
Organic Farming 4 ECTS 15-19 September
2003 Organic Farming Ethology Aggression and
Social Strategies 3 ECTS Bioethics
Plants Ethics and Application of Gene Technology
in 6 ECTS 2-5 June 2003 and Agriculture/Plant
Breeding 10-12 September 2003 Econometry Utili
zation of Panel Data in Agriculture 6 ECTS 2-12
June 2003 Statistics in Genetic Re. Statistical
Genomics 6 ECTS 9-21 June 2003 Pig Heard
Health-Welf. Production Systems and Disease
Complex 3 ECTS 11-15 August 2003 Bio Fibre
Technology Bio Fibre Technology Plant Fibres 6
ECTS October 2003
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Focus on NOVA PhD courses since start Success
story!

• From ca 10 to ca 15 courses/year
• A great variety of courses

• In total 300-400 students/year
• 63 Baltic students 2003 External funding

• 40-50 of total internal income from members
  used for PhD courses
• (approx. 300.000 2004)

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Strategic objective
Evaluate the form of NOVA PhD-courses to ensure
that these correspond to the needs and desires of
the NOVA member universities. To be completed
during 2004.

• Goals
• To get information about the quality of relevant
  processes and outcomes of NOVA PhD courses given
  2003.
• To get comments on relevant questions in a more
  strategic perspective.
• Internal evaluation Professor Sune Linder, SLU,
  spring 2004
• Report in June 2004

• Introduction to web-based application system 2004

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Strategic objective
Evaluate the results of the NOVA-BOVA
cooperation. To be presented to the Board before
July 2005.
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NOVA-BOVA MSc/PhD co-operation

• Aug 2001 the NOVA-BOVA Rector Meeting decided to
  continue based on the very positive experiences.

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NOVABA

• A Nordic-Baltic co-operation programme in
  agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences
  1996-2001.
• Involved all NOVA and BOVA universities
• Focused on short intensive MSc courses in the
  Baltic countries.
• 47 courses during the 5 year period, incl. 170
  teachers and 840 students.
• External funding, mainly from NCM.

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NOVA-BOVA MSc/PhD co-operation

• Aug 2001 the NOVA-BOVA Rector Meeting decided to
  continue based on the very positive experiences.

• January 2002 Launching a new organisation
• Executive Coordination Committee.
• External funding of all activities/BOVA
  secretariat/coordinators.

• Baltic networks in various scientific areas.
• Continuation of MSc short courses (BOVA).
• Mapping of MSc co-operation possibilities.
• Baltic PhD students on NOVA PhD courses.

• Extended Baltic Sea co-operation Russia.

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Examples of initiatives

• Euroforester European Master in Forestry in the
  Baltic Sea Region.
• Funding from EU (SLU) and NCM (VUSABALT).
• SLU, KVL, EAU, LLU, LZUU, Russia, Poland, Germany.

• Agro Biotech Research Network in the Baltic Sea
  Region and Nordic Countries
• Grant application to NorFA for a planning
  meeting,
• NOVA-BOVA and ScanBalt.
• Including Russia, Poland and Germany.

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Strategic objective
Implement the principles outlined in the Bologna
declaration in all the relevant NOVA UN
activities and in appropriate areas within the
NOVA Universities. Status report by the end of
2005.

• NOVA working group, including persons well
  acquainted with relevant national matters, having
  a central position in the decision system.
  Workshop in Uppsala, 14-15 April.
• Draft document to be presented to KUF 16 juni.

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Strategic objective
Strengthen the role of the NOVA UN as the
preferred and supported partner of the Nordic
Council of Ministers within NOVA member
universities sphere of responsibility in the
Nordic countries. Confirmed through visibility in
NCM documents and policies by the end of 2004.

• NCM NOVA Board contact meeting January 26.
• General secretary of NCM Per Unckel, visited
  NOVA secretariat March 23.

• NOVA rector member of NCM ad hoc group (No III)
  concerning establishment of a Nordic education
  and research room for fishery, agriculture,
  forestry and food. Report in May.

• Regular contacts with NorFA.

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Strategic objective
Increase external funding. Plan for financial
prospects shall be presented to the Board in June
2004.
External funding of NOVA activities 2004 at
least 2003
External funding of NOVA-BOVA activities (not
incl. above) 2003 140.000 2004 165.000
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External funding 2004
Several applications to NorFA, Nordplus and
Nordplus Neighbour.
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Strategic objectives
Ensure that a majority of institution faculty
members acknowledge NOVA as their network for
scientific education within the Nordic and Baltic
regions, and are willing to make use of their
membership when this is appropriate. To be
established by the end of 2005.
Establish an organizational structure and
functions that correspond to the mission and
efforts of the NOVA UN during the new strategic
period, that facilitate increased efficiency and
that define the various areas of
responsibility. To be completed by the end of
2004.
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Evaluations of NOVA

• Internal mid term evaluation by the end of
  2005.

• External evaluation by the end of 2006.

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