Final project conference: European Integration in Higher Education and Research

Program

09:00-10.00 Registration

10:00-10:30 Opening of the conference

• Berit Karseth, Dean at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo
• Bjørn Stensaker, project leader, Department of Education, University of Oslo

10:30-11:00 Presentation of the “The Re-Institutionalization of Higher Education in the Western Balkans: The interplay between European ideas, domestic policies and institutional practices”

• Martina Vukasović, co-editor, Department of Education, University of Oslo and Department of Sociology, Ghent University

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45 Focus on capacity building

11:15-11:45 Introductory presentation on the impact of the TEMPUS programme

• Antigoni Papadimitriou, Department of Education, University of Oslo

11:45-12:45 Panel discussion

Moderator: Bjørn Stensaker, project leader, Department of Education, University of Oslo
Participants:

• Peter Maassen, Department of Education, University of Oslo
• Paul Temple, Institute of Education, University of London
• Elena Palavrova, Erasmus Mundus 2 partnerships, European Commission
• Representative of The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation – NORAD (tbd)

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Focus on public-private dynamics in higher education

14:00-14:30 Introductory presentation on the public and private higher education in the Western Balkans

• Jelena Branković, Centre for Education Policy, Belgrade and Deparment of Sociology, Ghent University

14:30-15:15 Panel discussion

Moderator: (tbd)

• Marek Kwiek, Center for Public Policy, Adam Mickiewicz University
• Pavel Zgaga, Center for Education Policy Studies, University of Ljubljana
• One of the editors of the book (tbd)

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 The road ahead

• Representative of the Norwegian Research Council (tbd)
• Bjørn Stensaker, project leader, Department of Education, University of Oslo