ECIU Background, organisation and activities

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ECIUBackground, organisation and activities
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Meetings
Membership January 200711 European
Universities A total of app.202,000
students28,000 staff Plus3 Associate
Partners130,000 students,13000 staff
Linköpings universitet
University of Strathclyde
Aalborg Universitet
University of Warwick
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Universiteit Twente
Universität Dortmund
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Politecnico di Torino
Universidade de Aveiro
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

• Southern Federal University, Russia
• Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
• Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Why the ECIU?

• To better understand, and respond to, the global
  pressures on European Universities
• To be stronger and more powerful (Consortium
  approach vs. single institutional approach)
• To share experience and build on each others
  strengths
• Many networks, but no consortium of innovative
  and dynamic universities
• ? Foundation of the ECIU in 1997 (ECIU
  Charter)
• Prof Burton Clarks Creating
  Entrepreneurial Universities,
  Organizational Pathways of Transformation,
  1998

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ECIU Profile

• All ECIU universities have particular strengths
  in engineering and social sciences, some in the
  arts and humanities
• All are relatively young and share
  entrepreneurial values
• All have close ties to industry and to their
  regions
• All are committed to developing new forms of
  teaching and learning
• All are research intensive
• All are committed to an innovative culture within
  their walls
• All wish to sustain and nurture
  internationally-minded staff
• All are determined to offer their students high
  quality education

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Innovative?

• Aalborg Project and Problem-Based Learning
• Linkoping Medical Image Science and
  Visualization
• Twente The Entrepreneurial University strong
  spin-out/start-up profile THES Top 100 Tech
  Univ (79)
• TUHH Central location in Europe strong
  logistics profile Global Engineers programmes
  (with industry)
• Dortmund Ruhr-Region Regional Regeneration

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Vision

• ECIU will be one of the global leaders in higher
  education through its collective expertise and
  commitment to innovation in teaching and learning
  and members shared history of fostering economic
  and social development in regions in transition.

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Mission

• To contribute to the further development of a
  knowledge-based European economy
• To build on existing innovation and enhance
  quality, in the member institutions, in the areas
  of international collaboration teaching and
  learning regional development technology
  transfer and staff and student development
• To develop high-quality collaborative educational
  programmes
• To act as an agent of change
• To take Europe to the World.

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ECIU Organisation

• Institutional level Organisational level
• ECIU Executive Board (14 members) ECIU
  Secretariat (.5fte)
• ECIU Local Coordinators ECIU Graduate School
• Project champions Project Manager (.25fte)
• Student Wing
• Light organisation Emphasis on
  participation by members
• (no central organisation that can
  take on a life on its own).

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ECIU Activities

• Three core areas
• ECIU Graduate School
• Improving Student and Staff Mobility
• University Industry Interaction
• Stand-along projects
• Bilateral/trilateral activities

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I. ECIU Graduate School

• ECIUs response to Bologna
• Joint solutions to issues related with fees,
  quality assurance and degree structure
• Curriculum development and Quality Enhancement
• Promoting mobility of students and preparing
  graduates for an increasingly global job-market
• Better access to European funding such as
  Erasmus Mundus.
• Development of joint or double degree masters
  programmes

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Programmes

• European Masters in Materials Science (EM)
• European Masters in Environmental Studies (EM)
• European Masters in Global Innovation Management
  (EM appl.)
• Joint Masters Programme in Innovation and
  Entrepreneurship
• Joint Masters Programme in Industrial Design and
  Manufacturing

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• Emerging programmes
• Communication Information Technologies
• Engineering Life Sciences
• Energy Sustainable Development
• European Studies
• Consideration of internationalising the MBA
  Curriculum activities
• Joint delivery overseas, exchange of electives
• European MBA

Contact person Randolph Galla TUHH 49 40 42878
4263 r.galla_at_tuhh.de
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II. Improved Student and Staff Mobility

• Objectives
• To increase the numbers of in- and outgoing
  students
• To facilitate better framework conditions for
  student exchanges
• To promote staff exchange and stimulate staff
  development
• To prepare current and future university leaders
  for the challenges related to HEIs in the 21st
  century (with EU policies and practices, and
  pressures from global competition, being high on
  the agenda).

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Student Mobility Group

• Exchange agreements between (almost) all ECIU
  members
• Identifying and highlighting the added value
  of ECIU exchanges
• New activities to make ECIU mobility more
  attractive
• ECIU Global Competencies symposium
• Promotion of entrepreneurship activities (in
  addition to exchange)
• ECIU Fair for International Officers (1 Nov 2007)

Contact person Barbara Schneider University of
Dortmund 0049-(0)231-755-5331
barbara.schneider_at_udo.edu
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Twinning initiative

• Key elements in comparison to individual
  mobility
• pre-organised and pre-acknowledged modules
• fixed framework to be agreed on only once instead
  of individually per student
• In comparison to Joint Master Programmes
• Twin programmes are much easier to organise (no
  fee discussion, fewer legal constraints)
• First step towards a JMP

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Administrative Staff Development

• Objective to help grow and develop individual
  members of staff to ensure that they will open
  for change, ready to support new and challenging
  developments and to generally support an
  innovative culture.
• Duration of exchange can be from only a few
  days to a year or more, decided by the two
  parties involved.
• Financing and accommodation decided in each
  case.
• Pre-defined assignments or tasks (report)

Contact person Lise Thorup-Pedersen Aalborg
University ltp_at_adm.aau.dk 0045-96358089
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ECIU Leadership Development

• Addressing European and global challenges facing
  HE leaders in the 21st century (e.g. the EU
  policy agenda)
• Using experiences and cases from the various
  institutions across Europe/the ECIU
• Providing a different learning experience
  compared with traditional leadership programmes
  (personal development vs. skill development)
• Building a European/global network of
  current/future leaders

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III. University Industry Interaction

• To learn from best practice within the
  Consortium about knowledge exchange,
  entrepreneurship and innovation
• To do joint projects (preferably with European
  funding)
• Entrepreneurship Research (Study of
  entrepreneurship support and the entrepreneurial
  profile of students).
• DIFUSE / Technology Transfer in practice
• EU funded activity, assessing best practice,
  sharing experiences and establishing a Charter
  for Tech Trans

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EU-Asia University

• Pyeongtaek vision to set up a European-Asian
  University
• Background
• Relocation of US Forces to Pyeongtaek (US
  domination)
• Pyeongtaek new hub for trade (huge port
  developments)
• Objective
• Create an alternative to American university
  studies
• Increasing the European presence in Korea
  through the ECIU

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ECIU beyond Europe

• Globalisation of HE - Importance of overseas
  strategic alliances (but continued emphasis on
  Europe)
• Tec de Monterrey, Mexico
• Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Southern Federal University, Russia
• ECIU Europe as a stepping-stone for the global
  market of students, researchers and funding