11th ACRU Annual Conference

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11th ACRU Annual Conference

• Koice, Slovakia
• 17-18 October 2002

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Program

• 17 October 2002
• Grand meeting of the Science Board of TU Kosice,
  Aula Maxima
• 5.00pm 6.30pm Working session I
• 8.00pm Reception with cultural program,
  Ferrocentrum

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Program (2)

• 18 October 2002
• 9.00am-11.00am Working session II
• 12.00pm Sightseeing (optional)
• 2.00pm Lunch with the Rector of TU Kosice
• 4.00pm Grand meeting in the National Theatre,
  Main street (cultural performance, ...)
• 8.00pm Reception, Hotel Slovan

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Program (3)

• 19 October 2002
• Departure of participants

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Activity ReportJune 2001 - September 2002

• Tomas Sabol
• Tomas.Sabol_at_tuke.sk

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Activities

• Main activity
• Management of Continuing Education, Training
  Program Part III. Joint project with Kennesaw
  State University, USA
• Part I
• 2-week training in Slovakia lecturers from KSU
  (led by Dean of Continuing Education at KSU
  Barbara Calhoun), September 27 October 8, 1999
• Certificate from KSU Manager of CE
• Travel expenses of US lecturers covered by KSU

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Activities (2)

• Part II
• Visits to US partner universities training at
  KSU, 24 April 24 7 May 2000
• Certificate from KSU Senior Manager of CE
• Travel expenses of ACRU participants and stay in
  US covered by the KSU
• Part III
• For a new group of ACRU representatives
• Originally planned for Autumn 2001, organised by
  the University of Miskolc

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Activities (3)

• Date 13 17 May 2002, Kosice
• Organised by TU Kosice
• Participants
• Dorin Herlo, Aurel Vlaicu University from Arad,
  Romania
• Teresa Chorzepa, Rzeszow University of Technology
• Albieta Walewska, Rzeszow University of
  Technology
• Gábor Simó, Szent István University
• Kornélia Borzsonyi, University Miskolc
• Andrea Markuovská, TU Kosice
• Danica Klacková, TU Zvolen, Slovakia
• Jana Terenová, TU Zvolen, Slovakia

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Activities (4)

• Lecturers
• KSU Barbara Calhoun, Teresa Gammill, Joyce
  Cheshier
• ACRU
• Maria Kocsis Baan, University of Miskolc
• Eniko Batiz, Babes-Bolyai University
• Nataa Urbancíková, TU Kosice
• Gejza M. Timcak, TU Kosice
• Tomas Sabol, TU Kosice

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Activities (5)

• Program
• Principles of Public Services and Adult Learning
• Strategic Planning
• Program Development
• Program Management
• Program Evaluation
• Marketing
• Staff Selection and Development
• Financial Systems
• Project Management

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Activities (6)

• Presentations from the training available at
• http//acru.tuke.sk/ , item New
• Barbara and Joyce after the training visited also
  Poland Rzeszow and Krakow
• Suggestion for further cooperation in the area of
  e-learning
• Who is interested from ACRU universities?

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Activities (5)

• Program
• Principles of Public Services and Adult Learning
• Strategic Planning
• Program Development
• Program Management
• Program Evaluation
• Marketing
• Staff Selection and Development
• Financial Systems
• Project Management

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Activities (6)

• Other activities
• AFANET Hermes Project, Szent István University,
  Gödöllö, Hungary Workshop on testing language
  competence in language classes for students of
  agriculture and related sciences. Contact Beata
  Palfalvy, palfalvy_at_gikk.szie.hu
• Project Intellectual Capacity for Innovation and
  Technology Management (2003-2002-IVF), submitted
  to the Visegrad Foundation, prof. Kazimierz
  Tuszyñski, partners from PL, HU, SK result
  unknown.

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Activities (6)

• 22nd Congress of Microbiology to be organized in
  Kosice by the University of Veterinary Medicine,
• Mobility grant to Ms. I. Nowotynska from Rzeszow
  University of Technology, to international
  conference
• More

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Activities (7)

• IST-1999-29088 Project PRISMA
• IST Programme, 5th Framework Programme
• http//www.prisma-eu.net
• Partners D, UK, S, G, A, HU, CR, SL, CY TU
  Kosice
• Analysis of application of Information and
  Communication Technologies (ICTs) in
• e-Administration
• e-Health
• e-Transport
• e-Tourism
• e-Environment
• Persons with Special Needs

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PRISMA Objectives

• Mapping overall trends and changes affecting
  citizen services
• Identifying current best practice in the
  provision of citizen services
• Conducting foresight and scenario-building
  exercises over the next 10 years
• Developing future-oriented best practice for
  these services
• Providing practical tools for policy makers,
  service providers and other stakeholders

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PRISMA Objectives

• Mapping overall trends and changes affecting
  citizen services
• Identifying current best practice in the
  provision of citizen services
• Conducting foresight and scenario-building
  exercises over the next 10 years
• Developing future-oriented best practice for
  these services
• Providing practical tools for policy makers,
  service providers and other stakeholders

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PRISMA

• Results may be of interest also for you
• Please support Dissemination of the Project
  results towards academic community, policy
  makers, service providers, different stakeholder
  groups,
• All results on
• http//www.prisma-eu.net

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Other

• ACRU Constitution, Article 11, paragraph 1 to
  delete the text excluding the country of
  residence of the President and the Secretary
  General - DONE.
• Suggestion of the Secretary General
• To award Honorary membership of ACRU to Ms.
  Barbara Calhoun, Dean of Continuing Education at
  Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA for her
  contribution and long-term personal commitment to
  ACRU mission.
• ACRU leaflet (published in 2000) still some
  copies available

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Other

• Offer of Florida Virtual College (Randy Stein,
  Rstein_at_fvconline.com) - offering student
  marketing agreement in the area
• Providing bachelor/master degrees in
• Business Administration
• E-Commerce
• Business Marketing
• Business Finance
• Small Business Management
• Business Communication Management
• Business Communication
• Human Resource Management, etc.
• http//www.fvconline.com

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Other

• Not too much traffic on ACRU web site
  http//acru.tuke.sk/ - Announcement should be
  published by member universities
• Student exchange program/PhD mobility program?
  Proposal of the Lviv Polytechnic State
  University?
• MBA program (starting also at TU Kosice)
• Other projects

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Other Issues

• 2003 Election of the ACRU President and
  Secretary General (Hungary)

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Members (SK, HU)

• Technical University of Kosice
• University of P.J. afárik in Koice
• University of Veterinary Medicine, Kosice
• Military Aviation Academy of General Milan
  Rastislav tefánik, Kosice
• University of Miskolc
• Debrecen University
• College of Nyíregyháza
• Szent Istvan University

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Members (PL)

• Rzeszow University of Technology
• Pedagogical University Rzeszow
• University of Mining and Metallurgy Krakow
• Technical University of Lublin
• Military University of Technology, Warsaw

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Members (UA)

• Lviv Polytechnic State University
• Lviv Academy of Commerce
• Uzhgorod State University
• Uzhgorod Institute of Information Science,
  Economics and Law
• Kolomiya College of Law and Business
• Ivano-Frankivsk State Technical Oil and Gas
  University

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Members (RO)

• Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
• University "Politechnica" of Bucharest
• University of "Aurel Vlaicu" din Arad
• University of Oradea
• University of Petrosani
• 24 members

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Members - Issues

• Check and update your data contact person,
  telephone/fax/email/Web address
• Update of the ACRU Web site
• How to deal with non-participating members
  problems with voting at Annual Conferences
• New members/Interest to join Romania Cluj,

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Proposals for the future

• Workshop on the development of tourism in
  Carpathian region. Target group lecturers,
  senior and PhD students. Organized by TU Kosice.
  Contact person Dr. Gejza Timcak,
  Gejza.Timcak_at_tuke.sk. Preliminary date July
  2003. Interest?
• 6th Framework Programme Integrated Projects,
  Network of Excellence,
• Workshop Regional Development in Carpathian
  Region. Contact person Dr. Oto Hudec,
  Oto.Hudec_at_tuke.sk (Institute of Regional and
  Community Development established at TU)

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Proposals for the future (2)

• Visegrad Fund, http//www.visegrad.org/
• Carpathian Foundation, http//www.carpathianfounda
  tion.org/
• Cross-border Cooperation in the Carpathian
  Euroregion
• Carpathian Research Program
• Preserving Carpathian Cultural Heritage
• Place of the Annual Conference 2003? Hungary?

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• Looking forward to the further cooperation!