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Building on Achievements of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes

European Conference on ERASMUS Intensive Programmes in Bonn

Within the framework of the New EU Programme for Lifelong Learning (2007-2013), the Intensive Programmes (IP) are now  a decentralised Erasmus activity which is managed by the National Agencies in the respective participating countries.

The European conference on Intensive Programmes took place in the “Wissenschaftszentrum” in Bonn on 10 and 11 December 2007. It was run and hosted by the National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation in the DAAD in collaboration with National Agencies from 18 European countries and the European Commission. The conference mainly addressed to university teachers and coordinators of Intensive Programmes who wish to share their experience with other and new colleagues across Europe and who are interested in submitting an IP proposal in 2008.

One of the major challenges the conferences  were to gather the experience in IP from across Europe with the aim of building on the achievements of the past with a perspective to the future. Topics such as how to set up and run an IP, academic recognition and integration into the curriculum as well as sustainability were addressed in the panel discussion and several workshops. A project exhibition of good practice examples from across Europe facilitated networking and intended to help participants to build new contacts.

A summary of the projects being presented during the conference can be downloaded here:

Project reader IP-Conference (*pdf)

Additional information:

• DAAD Press Release (German) (10 December 2007)
  
• Compendium 2007/08 of IP-Projects coordinated by German HEIs (*pdf)
  
• Picture gallery

Workshop reports:
workshop A (*.pdf)

Conference report
presentation (*.pdf)


Presentations of the conference are offered in the following programme scheme as pdf-downloads:

Monday, 10 December 2007

Reception and Registration

Welcome address and introduction
Dr. Siegbert Wuttig, DAAD
Susanne Burger, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Key note address: Intensive Programmes and the Bologna Process
Martin Prchal, Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC)

Panel discussion: Intensive programmes as incentive for mobility? How to build on the achievements of IPs?
Input: Prof. Dr. Karsten Froberg, University of Southern Denmark
Participants:

Prof. Dr. Christian Wentzlaff-Eggebert, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Sarah Scholz, Student Representative of IP, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Patricia de Smet, DG EAC, European Commission
Chair: Dr. Siegbert Wuttig, DAAD

"ERASMUS Intensive Programmes as experimental ground for intercultural learning?"
Two parallel Workshops with good practice examples

Workshop A

• Project A1: “Intercultural Training for Business Students”,
  Walter Schurmans, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium and Prof. Dr. Günther Hirth, Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany
  
  
• Project A2: "Performance, Personal Growth and Communal Learning"
  Dr. Erwin Apitzsch, Lund University, Sweden
  Chair: Dean Hipple, Télécom Lille 1, France
  Rapporteur: Dr. George Camacho, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal
  
  

Workshop B

• Project B1: "Euroculture", Erasmus Mundus Course
  Yuliya Akhmejanova, Universität Göttingen, Germany and Dr. Thierry Di Costanzo, Marc Bloch Université, Strasbourg, France
   
  
• Project B2: "European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School"
  Dr. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Tartu Ulikool, Estonia and Prof. Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Chair: Dr. Alexandra Angress, DAAD
  Rapporteur: Maria Winkler, Uppsala University, Sweden

Tuesday 11 December 2007

Three parallel Workshops C, D, E
Three parallel workshops running 40 min. per session each with 2 good-practice-examples. This gave participants the opportunity to attend two different workshops. Good practice IP-project examples focussed on key aspects such as innovation; didactical/ pedagogical approaches; project management and impact and sustainability of the IP.

Workshop C: IPs in Social Sciences and Arts (2 sessions)

• Project C1:“EthCon Ethics and Ethnographic Objects Conservation”
  Heikki Häyhä, EVTEK, Vantaa, Finland and Prof. Dr. Gerdi Maierbacher-Legl, HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden/ Göttingen
  
  
• Project C2: "The Globalisation of the Accountant and Audit Standards and their Application in the Countries of the European Union"
  Prof. Dr. Lucien Jaffre, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
  Prof. Dr. Eurico Lima Basto; Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
  Chair: Prof. (FH) Dr. Brigitta Zierer, Fachhochschule Campus Wien, Austria
  Rapporteur: Petra Günther, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  
  
  

Workshop D: IPs in Natural Sciences and Applied IT (2 sessions)

• Project D1: "EDMM – European Digital Media Management Intensive Programme”
  Lívia Kokas-Palicska, Budapest Müszaki Föiskola, Hungary and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Faigle, Fachhochschule Stuttgart – Hochschule der Medien, Germany
  
  Project D2: "Skin barrier function : Cutaneous Absorption and Environmental Factors"
  Prof. Dr. Françoise Falson, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Jung, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
  Rapporteur: Dr. Marita Wigren-Svensson, Uppsala University, Sweden
  
  
  

Workshop E: IPs in Engineering/Architecture (1 session)

• Project E1: "Training in Advanced Remote Engineering Technologies",
  Prof. Dr. Andreas Pester, Fachhochschule Kärnten, Austria
  
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  Project E2: "Sustainable Spatial Planning & Water Management"
  Janet Askew, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
  Chair: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jung, Fachhochschule Frankfurt, Germany
  Rapporteur: Prof. Dr. Maroš Finka, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
  
  

Open Platform: Exchanging Experiences and Building Networks
Higher Education Institutions and National Agencies present their work and their projects in the foyer. There were poster sessions and exchange of experience at certain meeting points signposted between IP contact persons, coordinators and representatives of National Agencies as well as a number of European experts.

Project Presentation / Networking in the foyer/session room: poster sessions and bilateral meetings

IP-Projects:

• Project I1: "Labour Movements and Corporate Location Strategies within the European Union"
  Natascha Stephenson, Universität Göttingen, Germany
  
  
• Project I2: "Inter-arts workshop: We Make an Opera"
  Rima Rimsaite, Lietuvos Muzikos Akademija, Lithuania
  
  
• Project I3: " General Problems of Transnational Law and its Implications for the Companies in International Trade"
  Prof. Dr. Maria Pilar Canedo Arrillaga, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
  
  
• Project I4: "Bridging the city - Water in architecture, urban spaces and planning"
  Prof. Dr. Maroš Finka, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
  
  
• Project I5: "Total Quality Cultural Heritage Management"
  Dr. Luiz Oosterbeek, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
  
  
• Project I6: "Intensive Course on the Study and Performance of Ancient Greek Drama"
  Dr. Marina Yeroulanou, University of Athens, Greece
  
  
• Project I7: "IPEDAK - Intensive Program on Dance Knowledge",
  Prof. Egil Bakka, Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norway
  
  
• Project I8: "NEPME" New Perspectives in Music Education"
  Dr. Linda Mackevica, Liepaja Academy of Pedagogy, Latvia
  
  
• Project I9: "European Quality Standards in Healthcare and Nursing"
  Drs. Maarten Kaaijk, HanzeHogeschool Groningen, The Netherlands
  
  

Expert tables
with IP-Experts from HEIs and National Agencies and from the European Commission

Key Messages from the Workshops and Perspectives for Intensive Programmes in the LLP
Interactive session
The Workshop Rapporteurs
Patricia de Smet, DG EAC, European Commission
Conference Rapporteur Christopher Moss, Universität Marburg, Germany

End of official part of the conference