DRAFT AGENDA Venue: Khachatur Abovian Armenian State
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DRAFT AGENDA Venue: Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University Date: 20-21 February, 2017 20 February, 2017 Monday 11:00 Welcome by Rector/National Erasmus + officer 11.30-12:10 Presentation of the project: Rationale, aims and objectives/workplan/outcomes Alicia Berlanga, UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management, Polytechnic University of Catalunya Anahit Ordyan, Assistant VP, American University of Armenia 12:10- 13:00 Cooperation Management Kristina Tsaturyan, Head of International Cooperation Unit, ASPU 13:00-14:00 Lunch-break 14:00 -16:00 Presentation of the consortium (10 minutes each) 1. ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY (ASPU) 2. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA (AUA) 3. GYUMRI STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY (GSPI) 4. YEREVAN STATE CONSERVATORY (YKSC) 5. VANADZOR STATE UNIVERSITY (VSU) 6. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (MoES) 7. NATIONAL INFORMATION CENTER (ARMENIC) 8. UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC) 9. ISTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO (IST) 10. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (KTH) 11. UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI (URV) 12. TALLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TUT) 16:00-16:15 Coffee-break 16.15 Presentation of WORKING PACKAGES (10 minutes each) WP1-KTH (Sweden): To develop comprehensive national internationalisation policy framework and tools for facilitating the internationalisation practices in Armenia. Speaker: TBC WP2-ASPU (Armenia): To create a National Platform for internationalisation in Higher Education and online tools for mapping and benchmarking the internationalisation processes. Speaker: Kristina Tsaturyan, Head of International Cooperation Unit, ASPU WP3-UPC (Spain): To build capacities of International Cooperation Office (ICO) staff of HEIs, MoES and social partners in strategic management, marketing and cultural challenges and implementation of credit mobility. Speaker: Alicia Berlanga, UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management, Polytechnic University of Catalunya WP4-URV (Spain): To create ICO resources and service-oriented centres at the Armenian HEIs. Speaker: Marina Casals, Head of International Relations, Universitat Rovira i Virgili 18.00 DINNER 21 February, 2017, Tuesday 10.00 Presentation of WPs (10 minutes each) WP5-AUA (Armenia): Dissemination. AUA will be in charge of dissemination with the support of KTH as European partner. Speaker: Gayane Makaryan, Grants Manager, AUA WP6-ASPU (Armenia): Overall management of the Project Kristina Tsaturyan, Head of International Cooperation Unit, ASPU WP7-IST: Quality Assurance of the Project Speaker: Rui Mendes, Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisbon WP8-RECOGNITION CENTER: Sustainability of the Project Speaker: National Information Center for Academic Recognition and Mobility 11:00-11:30 Coffee-break 11:30 Work-plan for the 1st year and WP1 and WP2: 13:00-14:00 Lunch break 14:00-15:00 Other Erasmus+ projects on Internationalisation (Synergy between the Projects) - Development of approaches to harmonization of comprehensive internationalization strategies in higher education, research and innovation at EU and Partner Countries “HARMONY” Syuzanna Shamakhyan, Head of International Cooperation Unit, Russian-Armenian University - Towards incoming international university communities “WELCOME” Alicia Berlanga, UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management, Polytechnic University of Catalunya - Elevating the Internationalisation of higher education in Moldova (TBC) 15.00 Financial and administrative management of the project Armen Tamazyan, Vice-Rector for General Affairs, Kristina Tsaturyan, Head of Intern ational Cooperation Unit 17.00 Closing Presenting the University: General information on the University: - Date of Establishment, - structure, - fields of studies, - research and innovations, - internationalisation, - anticipation from the project BOOST, how the University will contribute to the Project implementation (please, list your assumptions on your University contribution to the Project, not that filled in the Proposal) - Involved experts Presenting the WP: − Objective of the WP − Activities − Deliverables − Timeframe − Cooperation setting and management − Communication For the last two points, each WP leader should describe his anticipation on the cooperation setting, participation and contribution of each partner in the WP accomplishment, coordination, ways of communication and meeting the time- frame allocated for each activity. .