September 2012

news@SEFI Issue 8/ 2013

IN THIS ISSUE

SEFI Editorial 2 FROM SEFI 3 SEFI Annual Conference SEFI 2013 General Assembly Pre-conference Events

FROM MEMBERS 6 HP

FROM PARTNERS 8 IFEES IGIP Engineering Professors’ Council

CALENDAR 9

PRESS REVIEW & GENERAL NEWS INNOVATION 10 YOUTH EMPLOYMENT 12 QUALITY ASSURANCE 13 RANKINGS 14 INTERNATIONALISATION 14 GENDER DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION 16

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"Engineering Education Fast Forward" SEFI Annual Conference

The 41st Annual Conference of SEFI was held in Leuven on 16-20 September and was organized by the KU Leuven.

330 delegates and 40 SEFI Fellows from 33 countries met in Belgium during four days to discuss and share views and experi- ences on “Engineering Education Fast Forward 1973 > 2013 >>”. This Conference marked also the 40th Anniversary of SEFI, for which 50 special invited guests came from all over the world.

Among welcoming words from President of SEFI, Prof. Wim Van Petegem, the Rector of KU Leuven Prof. Rik Torfs, the Vice- Rector Prof. Georges Gieten, the Vice-Dean Prof. Yolande Berbers, and by Prof. Ludo Froyen, we were pleased to count Mrs. Lesley Wilson , Secretary General of EUA (European University Association), who offered some views on Higher Educa- tion in the 1970’s at the time of SEFI’s creation.

The Conference welcomed a series of remarkable invited keynote presentations given by Erik Duval, KU Leuven on “Time to open up?”, Dr. Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, on The Future of Online Learning in Higher Education, Dr. Iring Wasser, ASIIN/ENAEE, on Accreditation and Mobility of Engineers in Europe: SEFI and ENAEE joining forces, Dr. Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, on The Grand Challenge of Engineering Ethics Education, Dr. Sue Bray, IACEE, on Global Work Teams: Are We Adequately Preparing Our Engineers?, Dr. Mike Ashby, Cambridge University ,UK on Analysing Ar- ticulations of Sustainable Development, Dr. Jordi Segalas, UPC Barcelona Tech, on Transdisciplinarity: a Must for Sustain- able Education, Dr. Phil Wankat, Purdue University, on Past, Present and Future of Engineering Education, Dr. Caroline Bail- lie, University of Western Australia, on Reimagining Engineering and its Education, Dr. Roger Hadgraft, RMIT Australia, on Educating the Sustainability Engineer: Redesigning Curricula.

A SEFI Corporate partners Round Table entitled “Industry Meets Education: The agenda of a young engineer in the coming decade ” was held too, with the participation of Xavier Fouger (Dassault Systems, SEFI Vice-President and Chair of SEFI Univer- sity - Business Cooperation Committee), Tuuli Sornikivi (Hewlett Packard), Alex Tarchini (Mathworks), Marc Fry (Granta), Philip Langenaken (National Instruments), Kim Koserski (Maplesoft), Marc Heyns (IMEC), Christiane Malcorps (Solvay). A series of pre- conference workshops were organised by our Working groups on Curriculum Development, Educational Technologies, Engi- neering Education Research, Ethics in EE, Gender and Diversity in EE, and Sustainability, as well as numerous workshops organ- ised by our Corporate Partners Mathworks, HP, and National Instruments.

The SEFI Annual Conference 2013 was remarkable for many different aspects: the excellent presentations, the interesting pa- pers presented by colleagues from all over the globe, the strong presence of former SEFI presidents, Leonardo da Vinci Medalists, Fellows… Not to mention the wonderful locations of our Gala Dinner in the Faculty Club of KU Leuven and the Con- ference Banquet in the University Hall. This year awards ceremony has also been very intense, organized in the Promotiezaal of the University Hall and with 4 awardees.

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Following the tradition, several SEFI internal meetings such as Administrative Council meetings and General Assem- bly were also organised during the four days of the conference.

The proceedings of the conference will be available after mid-October on www.sefi.be (publications).

The SEFI 2013 Leonardo da Vinci Medal Ceremony was held on 25th September, on the occasion of the Conference Banquet. The medal was awarded to the well-known Belgian astronaut Dr Frank de Winne. He is Head of the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, he owns a Masters degree in telecommunications and civil engineering from the Royal Military Acad- emy of Belgium and received doctorates Honoris Causa from the University of Has- selt, the University of Antwerp, Gent University, the University of Liège and the Uni- versity of Mons. Frank De Winne is also the first European Space Agency astronaut to command a space mission, and is dedicated towards the education of science and technology to children and young adults. He warmly thanked SEFI Council for this award and praised SEFI for its work during the last 4 decades.

The 2013 SEFI Fellowships Ceremony was awarded this year to Prof. Mervyn Jones (Imperial College, London), Prof. Aris Avdelas, (Former AC member of SEFI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), in recognition for their long lasting and active involvement in SEFI. This year, SEFI also awarded an Honorary Membership to Chiara Maffioli for her long lasting support to her deceased husband, Prof. Francesco Maffioli (Former SEFI President, SEFI Treasurer) and to SEFI.

The Conference also welcomed colleagues representing partner organisations, such as 4ING, ASEE, ASIBEI, BEST, CE- SEAR, ENAEE, IFEES, IACEE, IGIP, LACCEI.

Our special thanks go to KU Leuven Rector, Prof. Rik Torfs, to the Vice-Rector Prof. Georges Gieten , to Prof. Yolande Berbers, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, to Prof. Ludo Froyen, Chairman of the Organising Com- mittee and to his dedicated team, Elsje, Elke, Annemie, Karen...

We would also like to offer our deepest thanks to our sponsors who allowed, by their support and their active pres- ence, this Conference to be a tremendous success:

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SEFI General Assembly 2013

The Assembly took place on Friday 20th September 2013. It was attended by approx. 80 members present or repre- sented.

The General Assembly was the occasion for electing the SEFI Vice-President 2013-2015, in the person of Prof. Anto- nia Moropoulou, Vice-Rector of the National Technical University of Athens.

7 members of the Administrative Council were elected for a three-year mandate: Profs. Jerzy Rutkowski (Silesian University of Technology), Ladislav Musilek (Czech University of Technology in Prague), Esat Alpay (Imperial Col- lege, London), Pieter de Vries (TU Delft) Hannu Matti Jarvinen (Tampere University of Technology), Joao Rocha (President of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto), Carlo Noé (Università Carlo Cattaneo ). 2 members of the Administrative Council were elected too for a two-year mandate: Prof. Tuncay Dogeroglu (Dean of Anadolu University) and Yiannis Pavlou (National Instruments). We would like to welcome all of them and look forward working with them in the coming years.

The 2013-2014 Administrative Council is therefore composed of Kamel Hawwash (President), Xavier Fouger (Vice- President), Antonia Moropoulou (Vice-President), Wim Van Petegem (Past-President), Angela Varadi (Treasurer), Esat Alpay, Enrica Caporali, Erik de Graaff, Pieter de Vries, Tuncay Dogeroglu, Ludo Froyen, Michael Hoffmann, Hannu Matti Jarvinen , Anne-Marie Jolly, Mike Murphy, Ladislav Musilek ,Eskild Holm Nielsen, Carlo Noé, Katrina Nordström, Brynjulf Owren, Jerzy Rutkowski, Luis Manuel Sanchez Ruiz, Jan-Uwe Wolff. The 2013-2014 Bureau will be composed Kamel Hawwash (President), Xavier Fouger (Vice-President), Antonia Moro- poulou (Vice-President), Wim Van Petegem (Past-President), Angela Varadi (Treasurer), Françoise Côme ( Secretary General), Mike Murphy, Martin Vigild, and by invitation as Editor in Chief of the EJEE, Erik de Graaff.

We thank all our outgoing members, especially our Past-President Dr Anette Kolmos. Celebrating 40 years of SEFI.

In the context of the SEFI 40th Anniversary, different activities took place to underline these 40 years of dedication towards Engineering Education! SEFI Award for the best PHD Thesis in Engineering Education The winner of this First SEFI award for the best PhD in Engineering Education is Dr. Pia Lap- palainen, from Aalto University in Finland for her thesis entitled “Socially Competent Leadership - predictors, impacts and skilling in engineering”. She received her price during the award cere- mony on the 19th of September. It is with emotion and true pleasure that Dr. Lappalainen re- ceived this distinction, considering it as a real milestone in her dedication towards Engineering Education.

“40 Years of Leadership and Recognition” During the Annual Conference the “40 Years of Leadership and Recognition” event was organised on 19th September afternoon in the “Salon” of the Dean of Engineering, and including a guided tour at the Arenberg Castle. The event brought together former SEFI Presidents and General Secretaries, SEFI Fellows, Leonardo da Vinci Medal- lists and representatives of the SEFI founding Universities.

All the pictures projected during the Award Ceremony will be made available on www.sefi.be. All pictures taken during the conference will be circulated via email among the Conference Participants. 8 / 2013 5

SEFI@40 - anniversary publication In the context of its 40th anniversary celebration, the Administrative Council of SEFI decided that a commemorative book be produced to highlight the achievements of our Society and its contri- bution to the development of higher engineering education. It is also a forward looking book which presents some views on possible actions to be taken in the future taking into consideration new developments and new factors impacting higher education in general and the education of the engineers in particular. This book has been distributed to all the participants of the 2013 Annual conference. Copies are available at the SEFI HQ and an online version is available on www.sefi.be.

"SEFI@40 - Driving Engineering Education to Meet Future Challenges", Published by SEFI, Brussels, 2013, 128 p ISBN 978-2-87352-008-3. This book was published thanks to the generous support of Dassault Systemes.

ASSOCIATED EVENTS

First 4ING-EEDC-SEFI Joint Workshop: “The different Engineering Doctorates in Europe”

The workshop “The different Engineering Doctorates in Europe” has been organised by EEDC, 4ING and SEFI on the 16th September 2013, and was hosted by KU Leuven in conjunction with the 2013 SEFI Annual Conference. With more than 60 participants, this first joint workshop has been a real success that calls for further workshops of this type. Rich discussions took place on the base of the various presentations (available on www.eedcouncil.eu and on www.sefi.be ) After a brief welcome of the participants by Prof. Kamel Hawwash, SEFI, Prof. Mike Murphy,EEDC, Prof. Manfred Hampe, 4ING and a general introduction Prof. Gerhard Müller, EEDC/4ING, the first presentation was offered by Tho- mas Jorgensen, EUA Council for Doctoral Education. The invited presentations on various Doctorates format offered a broader view on the European landscape in doc- toral studies: Germany by: Prof. Michael Hoffmann, University of Ulm, 4ING, The Netherlands by: Prof. Hans Niemants- verdriet, Dean Graduate School of the Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e), Belgium (Flemish community) by Prof.Gerard Govers, Director Arenberg Doctoral School , KU Leuven, Denmark by: Prof. Eskild Nielsen, Dean Aalborg University, Turkey by: Prof. Sirin Tekinay, Dean Kadir Has University, United Kingdom by Prof. Clive Neal-Sturgess, Emeritus Professor at the Univerity of Birmingham and Chair of the International Group at the Engineering Profes- sors’ Council, Italy by: Dean University of Florence, Prof. Claudio Borri, France by: Prof. Olivier Bonnaud, University of Rennes, Portugal by: Prof. Joao Rocha, Dean ISEP, Vice-President EEDC, Poland by: Prof. J. Rutkowski, Silesian Univer- sity.

A conclusion was offered by the three presidents and Prof. Manfred Hampe, 4ING offered a general document sum- ming up the workshop outcomes. A joint position paper will be published by the three organisations in the coming weeks.

ENAEE Conference 2013

The 2nd Conference of ENAEE was held in KU Leuven on 16-17 September on the theme of “EUR-ACE®, the Euro- pean Quality Label for Engineering Degree Programmes: Impact and Perspectives” and was organised with the support of KU Leuven and SEFI.

The conference, attended by 60 representatives of academic institutions and accreditation agencies, was very suc- cessful. Plenary presentations were given on New Developments at the International Engineering Alliance and within Asia, Pr. Andrew Wo, Deputy-Chair, Washington Accord, Toward Global Recognition of Engineering Qualifications Ac- credited in Different Systems, Prof. Hu Hanrahan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Ethical Reasoning in the Engineering Curriculum, Prof. Raffaella Ocone, Royal Academy of Engineers/Heriot Watt University, Scotland, Quality Assurance Systems in Europe : recent developments - a EUA and EQAR perspective , Dr. Lesley Wilson, 8 / 2013 6

Secretary General, EUA, Programme Outcomes and International Recognition of Engineering Programmes, Prof.Ian Free- ston, Member EUR-ACE Label Committee.

A presentation on the 1st EEDC, 4ING and SEFI Workshop on The Different Engineering Doctorates in Europe – Conclusions and recommendations, has also been offered by Prof. Manfred J. Hampe, TU Darmstadt, Presi- dent of 4ING.

Our thanks go to the team of Prof. Froyen in Leuven for its dedication and great work that contributed to the organi- sation and also to the success of the event.

From Members ”HP Institute, Dedicated SEFI member’s web conference” - New Date! SEFI along with our strategic partner HP are inviting innovative SEFI members to contribute and benefit from the EU Grand Coalition initiative to develop closer alignment between Industry and Academia.

IT Skills Gap – new skills profile

HP built a new academic certification program, HP Institute, from the ground up to address the growing IT expertise gap. Our leading CEOs/CIOs are experiencing increased difficulty in acquiring individuals that meet the needs of changing IT technologies and new skills profile. This new profile focuses on three main skills deficits; Business Context Awareness, End-to-end Technology Expertise and Hands-on Experience.

Business Context Awareness: its not enough for IT professionals to have skills in their technical space, they need to know how and when to apply those skills to best meet business objectives. End-to-end Technology Expertise: The ‘Specialist’ role (Storage specialist/Network specialist/etc) is going to beco- me less important in the future – employers want IT professionals with a broad understanding of the whole solution and not to be “siloed” specialists in only one area Hands on experience: Experience means more confidence, lower onboarding time and increased productivity for a new employee to quickly become a valuable member of the team.

HP Institute offerings (based on industry standards – powered by HP) The HP Institute provides a curriculum of training and hands-on experiences to prepare students to achieve an HP ATA (Accredited Technical Associate) certification. The IT Career Path includes certification covering Connected Devi- ces, Networks, Servers & Storage and Cloud. The Business Career Path currently provides the industry's first IT-focused business certification for students Through this comprehensive program, students are able to learn all aspects of an IT solution and can architect end-to-end SMB level IT solutions.

To help support your initial interest and questions, Tuuli Sornikivi welcomes you to register for a dedicated SEFI member’s web meeting/conference 19th November 4 pm CET (this is the new date!). Please register your interest or record your questions by emailing: [email protected] and you will receive a cal- endar meeting invite with joining instructions to an online conference facilitated by Global Academic Programme leader Brian Beneda.

For more detailed information, please visit the SEFI website. 8 / 2013 7

HP Institute certifications mapped to European e-Competence Framework As a committed partner to the European Commission’s Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, HP Institute is pleased to an- nounce the HP Accredited Technical Associate (ATA) certifications are now mapped against the e-Competence Framework (e-CF). The HP ATA certifications mapped against the e-CF include our new certification, IT for Business, along with our technology pillars: Networking, Connected Devices, Servers /Storage and Cloud. The e-CF was developed by the ICT business community to standardize the ICT competence required in the work- place which is defined as a “demonstrated ability to apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes to achieving observable results.” The e-CF is under the umbrella of the European Committee for Standardization and is a key component of the long-term e-Skills for the 21st Century agenda supported by the European Commission and The Council of Minis- ters. As training and certification are often hard to compare, hiring managers and organizations can use the e-CF to deter- mine an individual’s qualifications. The e-CF identifies and compares the skills and competences of the most relevant ICT certifications. A grading system reflects the extent of the competence covered by a certificate: General (G) - Someone with this certificate will most likely have the competence. Partial (P) - The content of the requirements for the certificate match with the description of the competence, but some parts of the competence are missing (for example, no evidence of some of the practical skills). Superficial (S) - The content of the requirements mention parts of the competence description, but there is no evi- dence that obtaining the certificate will show possession of this competence.

The HP Institute program helps academic institutions to better prepare the next generation of ICT workers with com- prehensive courseware, remote labs on live equipment, and industry-recognized certification. The HP ATA certifica- tions validate job-readiness in roles such as network administrator, business analyst, or solutions architect. View the e -CF mapping for the HP ATA certifications here.

From Partners From IFEES

The WEEF 2013 was held from the 24-27 September 2013 in Cartagena, Columbia. This successful event, brought together the IFEES Summit, the ACOFI Conference and the SPEED Global Forum for a week of intense exchanges and discussions.

Among the remarquable moments of this event we can highlight the IFEES Global Award for Excel- lence in Engineering Education, going this year to Dr. Anette Kolmos, Past-President of SEFI (2009- 2011) for her continuous work in Engineering Education and its promotion on a global level. We congratulate Dr. Kolmos for this very deserved award!

We can also bring forward the election by the IFEES community of Françoise Côme as member of the Board for a 2- year term during its last elections. Françoise Côme was also elected Vice-President for Europe.

The IFEES community elected Professor Duncan M Fraser to serve for one year as President Elect; for two years as Pre- sident and one year as Immediate Past President. Furthermore, IFEES members elected the following leaders to the Executive Committee: both Ivan Esparragoza and Euan Lindsay were re-elected for a second term. Uriel Cukierman, and David Delaine were also elected for a two-year term. Ivan will again be First VP and represent the Americas; Susan Oh will continue as VP for Asia and David Delaine was elected as VP for Students.

Srikantan (Tan) Moorthy, Michael Milligan, Myongsook Susan Oh, Stephanie Farrell and Ramiro Jordan are the other members of the Executive Committee and will serve until 2014. Sarah Rajala (ex-officio) will continue to be on the IFEES Executive Committee representing the GEDC until the GEDC 2013 Chicago conference next month. At that ti- me, the incoming GEDC Chair John Beynon will join the IFEES Executive Committee.

Jose Carlos Quadrado (IFEES President) took the opportunity to thank the Immediate Past President Krishna Vedula for his outstanding leadership over the past few years. Also strong recognition was given to Jennifer de Boer (MIT) and Erik de Graaff (SEFI) for their important contributions as outgoing members of the IFEES Executive Committee. 8 / 2013 8

IGIP International Conference 2013

The 42nd IGIP International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy “The Global Challenges in Engi- neering Education” - 16th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL) – International Scientific School “Engineering Education for New Industrialisation”, was held in Kazan (Russia) on 23-28 September 2013.

The event was supported by a series of international organizations such as IFEES, GEDC, IEEE, ASEE, SPEE, LACCEI and SEFI, and was wonderfully organised by the Kazan National Research Technology University (KNRTU) in cooperation with the IGIP Russian Monitoring Committee (IGIP RMI), the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan and its Academy of Sciences.

Françoise Côme had been invited to attend with a presentation on “SEFI strategy in solving problems of European engineering education” and also had the opportunity to address the audience (370 participants from more than 35 countries) with a SEFI Welcome message. Interesting presentations on various topics, in plenary and in parallel ses- sions, were given and a round table, in presence of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam N. Minnikha- nov, was organised on the theme of “Pressing Challenges of Training Engineers for Petrochemical Industry”.

We would like to cordially thank the local organisers of KNRTU, RAEE, IGIP RMI – unfortunately too numerous to be all quoted! - and all those who have contributed to make this event a real success, with particular thanks to IGIP President Michael Auer for his warm welcome and excellent cooperation spirit. The 2014 IGIP Conference will be organised in Dubai, in the context of the WEEF 2014, 3-6 December.

Françoise Côme, Secretary General of SEFI has also been honoured with the “ IGIP Meritorious Service Award” for out- standing achievements and longtime active work for and within IGIP.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Engineering Professors’ Council: Annual recruitment and Admission

The Engineering Professors’ Council is organising its “Annual Recruitment and Admissions Forum” on November 4th 2013, 10:00—16:00.

The forum will focus on the state of student’s recruitment this Autumn in the UK, the changes in pre-university Edu- cation and the promotion of Engineering studies in schools en colleges.

The event will take place at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA Registration fee: £60 (non members)/£50* (members)

More information and detailed programme on : www.epc.ac.uk

Calls for Proposals/ Tender Call for Proposals – EAC/S07/12 – Lifelong Learning Programme Deadline: 15 October 2013 For more information, please click here. 8 / 2013 9

CALENDAR October 2013 November 2013

3-4 Skopje, FYROM 2-4 Antigua, GT FEANI General assembly 2013 (link) ICBL International Conference (link)

4 Arlington VA, USA 6-9 Lexington, USA th ASEE Engineering Technology Leadership Institute Confe- 16 Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Educa- rence (link) tion (link) SEFI will be represented by Mike Murphy (SEFI/ EEDC) 11-12 Budapest, HU EIT awards 2013 (link) 8-10 Windhoek , NA 6th ICEBE - International Conference on 18 Brussels,BE Engineering and Business Education (link) European Commission is organising "Innovation in Higher Education (link) 8-10 Lyon, FR SEFI will be represented by Françoise Côme 14th Congrès SFGP 2013 (link) 20-23 Minneapolis, USA 11 Athens, GR CIEE Annual Conference 2013 (link) International Engineering Presidents’ Meeting SEFI will be represented by Prof. Antonia Moropoulou, Vice- 21-23 Gothenburg,SE Président of SEFI European Quality Assurance Forum (link)

16-18 Tianjin, CN 25 Brussels, BE 25th ICDE World Conference (link) SEFI Bureau Meeting

16-18 Paris, FR CITEF 2013 (link) December 2013 20-22 Chicago, USA GEDC 2013 - Global Engineering Deans Council (link) 4-6 Berlin, DE SEFI will be represented by Françoise Côme and Mike Murphy ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2013 (link) (SEFI/ EEDC)

24-25 Beirut, LB 16 Brussels, BE 9th World Congress on Engineering Education (link) SEFI Administrative Council Meeting

24-25 Paris, FR EADTU Annual Conference 2013 (link) SEFI's event or SEFI related event SEFI’s partners events 31-01 November Porto, PT 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) (link) This event is supported by SEFI.

Please find the complete list of our upcoming events on www.sefi.be.

The SEFI/ IFEES International Higher Engineering Education Events calendar

This calendar created by SEFI with the participation of IFEES is built on a Google calendar frame. It provides useful details and links, and allows direct integration in your calendar.

The calendar is available directly through the SEFI homepage. 8 / 2013 10

PRESS REVIEW & GENERAL NEWS Innovation New Communication "Opening up Education: Innovative teaching and learning for all through new Technologies and Open Educational Resources" The European Commission has published on 25 September a new Communication "Opening up Educa- tion: Innovative teaching and learning for all through new Technologies and Open Educational Resources", which seeks to set out a European agenda for stimulating high-quality, innovative ways of learning and teaching through new technologies and digital content. The Communication (http://ec.europa.eu/education/news/doc/openingcom_en.pdf )as it places emphasis on a broad range of issues that are important for the future of European higher education. The document, which builds on the EC's recent Communications "European Higher Education in the World", "Rethinking Education" and the "flagship initiative Digital Agenda", puts forward a number of actions at both EU and national/institutional level which are pre- sented in the four following sections: * Open Learning Environments: opportunities to innovate for organisations, teachers and learners * Open Educational Resources: opportunities to use open knowledge for better quality and access * Connectivity and Innovation: partnerships for infrastructures, new products and services, and interoperability * A concerted effort to seize the opportunities of the digital revolution

The Communication calls on educational and training institutions to review their organisational strategies in order to, for example, improve their capacity to adapt, promote innovation and exploit the potential of technologies and digi- tal content. Open learning environments "require the leaders of educational institutions to play an active role by: pro- viding a strategic vision; transforming siloed institutions into connected learning communities and rewarding profes- sionals for innovative teaching approaches", the Communication notes. (…) The document also outlines a number of areas where the Commission will provide support/carry out actions, in par- ticular through the future EU programmes for education and research Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020. These include, for example, supporting educational institutions in developing new business and educational models and teachers' pro- fessional development through open online courses; exploring and testing, in cooperation with stakeholders and member states, digital competence frameworks and self-assessment tools for learners, teachers and organisations. The EC will also carry out a "comprehensive exercise of foresight scenarios for education in Europe in 2030" in con- sultation with actors such as EUA. (…)

More information on ec.europa.eu Click here to read the full text

The European Commission Launches Open Education Europa The European Commission launched Open Education Europa in September 2013 as part of the Opening Up Educa- tion initiative to provide a single gateway to European OER.

This portal is grounded on the basis of the elearningeuropa.info portal, active since 2002 to support the transforma- tion of education through technology. Today, with close to 38,000 registered users and an average of 55,000 mon- thly visits, it has become the meeting point for exploring change and innovation in education.

The main goal of the Open Education Europa portal is to offer access to all existing European Open Educational Resources in different languages in order to be able to present them to learners, teachers and researchers. Open Education Europa is a dynamic platform built with the latest cutting-edge open-source technology, offering tools for communicating, sharing and discussing. The portal is structured in 3 main sections: • The FIND section showcases MOOCs, courses, and Open Educational Resources by leading European institutions. Each institution is also featured in this section alongside the MOOCs, courses, and the Open Educational Resources it provides. • The SHARE section is the space where portal users (scholars, educators, policymakers, students and other stakehol- 8 / 2013 11

ders) come together to share and discuss solutions for a diverse range of educational issues by posting blogs, sha- ring events, and engaging in thematic discussions. • The IN-DEPTH section hosts eLearning Papers — the world’s most visited e-journal on open education and new technologies —, provides an exhaustive list of EU-funded projects, and highlights the latest news about open educa- tion as well as the most relevant recently published scholarly articles. For more information, please visit www.openeducationeuropa.eu

European Commission launches new Innovation Indicator

The European Commission published the "Indicator of Innovation Output" which aims to measure the extent to which “ideas from innovative sectors are able to reach the market, providing better jobs and making Europe more competitive”. The EC noted that the indicator was developed at the request of EU leaders to benchmark national in- novation policies, and showed that “significant differences remain between EU countries”. The indicator is designed to complement the Commission's Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) and Summary Innovation Index (SII) which as- sess the innovation performance of member states and the EU more widely, against a broad set of 24 innovation indi- cators including inputs, throughputs and outputs.

More information and background on the indicator can be viewed here. Innovation in Higher Education

The European Commission is organising an event on "Innovation in Higher Education" on November 18th 2013 in Brussels.

Current developments in higher education call for innovative actions. New information and communication tech- nologies are becoming more and more integrated in the higher education provision. Additional challenges such as the increasing globalisation; a rising competition between education providers; personalised learning; the emer- gence of a more interdisciplinary, soft-skills and creativity oriented education are affecting the current educational landscape. Experts point to a potential disruption in the higher education sector in the current decade.

In order to nurture the debate around those topics, the event will gather leading practitioners, education managers, academics and technology professionals for sharing and discussing experiences, examples of new practices for sup- porting and promoting innovation across the higher education systems from Europe and beyond. During the event the results of a new study on "Innovation in Higher Education" will be presented. The event will present an opportu- nity for open discussion and practical exchanges on various subjects such as: leveraging technological innovation; innovation in teaching and learning; drivers of institutional innovation.

The European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture would like to kindly invite you to attend the event. Due to the high level of interest and a limited number of registrations please send your registration stat- ing your affiliation via email to [email protected] by October 15th 2013. The registrations will be treated on a first come first serve basis. Confirmations will be sent to you in due course following your registration. Please note that the Commission cannot reimburse your travel and accommodation.

Draft programme http://ec.europa.eu/education/events/20131118prog_en.pdf

More information on: ec.europa.eu/education/

SEFI will be represented in the event by Mrs Françoise Côme. CDIO Overview The CDIOTM Initiative (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) is an international effort that aims to develop a new vision for engineering education. The approach towards engineering education developed by the CDIOTM Initiative has been adapted by a large num- ber of international universities for more than ten years in more than 80 collaborating institutions and universities over 25 countries worldwide. Taylor's University (Malaysia) is hosting from 30 October to 1 November 2013.

More information on is http://www.taylors.edu.my/CDIO/2013/index.html 8 / 2013 12

Internet mentors could supplant traditional lecturers

Traditional lecturers may soon be replaced by networks of online mentors working for several universities, a new study predicts. In the report, titled Horizon Scanning: What will higher education look like in 2020?, the Observatory on Borderless Education suggests that academic staff are likely to be employed part-time by several universities – often working remotely via the internet – rather than relying on a single employer.

(…)“More senior academics might have multiple contracts with several higher education institutions,” it suggests. Commissioned by Universities UK’s International Unit and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, the re- port highlights the partnership between the University of Warwick and Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, as a potential guide to future employment practices. With one undergraduate module, Forms of Identity, already taught via video conferencing to students at both institutions, the alliance “may be pointing the way to a new kind of pedagogy”, the report says.

“Undergraduate lectures, for example, may be delivered simultaneously to any number of participating institutions, either across a whole sector or indeed across borders,” it states. The report notes that “management models will have to adjust to these changes” and implementing them “will re- quire the type of business acumen seen in industries that have adapted to the disruption already”. University leaders may also risk a backlash from staff if they try to implement potentially unpopular restructuring, it warns. “When university leaders do not have academic staff on board for major initiatives, things go wrong,” the re- port notes.

(…)The report also examines how international demand for UK higher education will change by 2020. Using a British Council analysis, it says numbers of international students coming to the UK will continue to grow up to 2020, but at a lower rate than in the past. Instead, growth in transnational education (TNE), such as providing dis- tance learning courses and studying at international branch campuses, will accelerate. However, income from TNE students is unlikely to outstrip revenues received from incoming international students by 2020 because they gener- ate much lower fees for universities, it says.

For instance, almost half of the 570,000 TNE students registered to UK universities were on an applied accounting course provided by Oxford Brookes University and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. They paid only a one-off fee of £135 to the university when they submitted their dissertation to upgrade to a BSc. Official data collection methods should also be changed to mitigate the “Oxford Brookes effect”, which exaggerated the success of TNE recruitment in recent years, the report adds.

More information on : www.timeshighereducation.co.uk

Youth Unemployment

European Parliament resolutions on youth unemployment/EU Youth Strategy

Members of the European Parliament last week adopted two resolutions in relation to tackling youth unemployment and the implementation of the EU Youth Strategy.

The European Parliament highlighted that the “youth guarantee schemes” alone would not suffice to reduce youth unemployment. It also stressed the need for further measures to make it easier for young people to move to jobs or training. According to the Parliament, youth guarantee schemes, which aim to ensure that young people under 25 years are offered a job, training, or a traineeship within four months of their becoming unemployed, should be extended to include graduates under 30 years. In the debate, MEPs also called for better recognition of skills and aptitudes ac- quired outside formal education, e.g. through traineeships, volunteering or social work. The Parliament also underlined the need for EU support for “good-quality traineeships and apprenticeships” and called on member states to remove all barriers to cross-border traineeships for young EU citizens.

More information on ec.europa.eu 8 / 2013 13

Quality Assurance

8th European Quality Assurance Forum

EUA – together with its partners ENQA, ESU and EURASHE – is pleased to announce that registration is still open for the 8th edition of the European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF), which will take place at the University of Gothen- burg, Sweden, from 21 to 23 November 2013.

Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the 2013 EQAF, entitled “Working together to take quality forward”, will specifically explore how both individuals and organisations can better understand the role that quality assurance can play in their daily lives, get engaged and work together.

Keynote speakers will include Mats Alvesson, a leading European researcher in the field of organisational culture, and Sijbolt Noorda, President of the Academic Cooperation Association. More details on the programme, as well as abstracts of papers and workshops to be presented at the Forum, are now available on the EQAF website.

EUA invites you to register as soon as possible. The deadline for the early-bird registration fee is 18 October 2013. After this date, late registration fees will apply.

More information on www.eua.be/EQAF-Gothenburg.aspx

Universities from Western Balkans and EU discuss role of central quality assurance units at EUREQA workshop Quality assurance staff from universities in the Western Balkans gathered in Korca, Albania, from 5 to 6 September, to discuss the role of central quality assurance units, as well as the tools they use. The workshop was organised in the framework of the EUA-led “Empowering Universities to fulfil their responsibility for Quality Assurance” (EUREQA) project. During the second in a series of four workshops, which will bring together quality assurance managers from the Western Balkans and EU countries, 40 participants discussed in detail various models for distributing quality assur- ance tasks among the central- and faculty-level units. The workshop addressed questions such as: What role should the central QA unit play and how can it co-operate with those working in the faculties? What are the advantages and disadvantages of different divisions of responsibilities? What are the different roles of QA officers? The EUREQA project will continue promoting capacity building for QA in Western Balkan universities, through study visits, participation in the European Quality Assurance Forum and the translation of EUA’s publications on quality culture into the local languages.

More information on the EUREQA project, including presentations from the second workshop, can be found here. More information on www.eua.be

Compare Qualifications Framework/ Reports on the referencing of national qualifications frameworks to the EQF

The EQF portal provides the results of the countries' reports, which have finalised the referencing of national qualifi- cations frameworks to the EQF. At he moment twelve national referencing reports are available on the EQF portal and through "Compare Qualifica- tions Frameworks" page it is possible to compare the way represented countries link their national frameworks levels to EQF.

For more information please follow the link or go to ec.europa.eu

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Ranking U-MAP: Not Ranking, Profiling! U-Map functions as a university classification instrument, and is intended to facilitate comparison between universi- ties. The U-Map project was elaborated by the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) and has been co- financed by the European Commission since 2004. Since then, U-Map has gone through six different development stages. After its implementation in 2010-2011 and its launch for the universities of the Nordic states and the Nether- lands in the same period, the U-Map tool willnow be implemented across Europe and beyond. Are you wondering which universities offer the most career-oriented programmes with direct links to the demands of the labour market? Would you like to know which universities have the highest percentage of international stu- dents? Are you looking for information on universities’ revenue from knowledge exchange activities? If so, U-Map might provide you with some useful answers by identifying university profiles according to a variety of indicators. In fact, whereas its companion project U-Multirank aims at offering a multidimensional and user-driven approach to establish university rankings based on the selection of available indicators (research, teaching and learning, interna- tional orientation, knowledge transfer and regional engagement) chosen by the user him or herself, U-Map does not intend to rank but rather to profile universities. This means that U-Map illustrates universities on the basis of 29 sepa- rate indicators grouped together in six categories(teaching and learning profile, student profile, research involve- ment, regional involvement, involvement in knowledge exchange and international orientation).

U-Map is a useful tool which helps to indicate the strengths of universities according to different fields. Comparably to U-Multirank, U-Map allows to establish a more nuanced approach towards the higher education sector, but does not put emphasis on a hierarchical ranking as such.

For more information, please visit www.aca-secretariat.be Internationalisation Foreign graduate admissions rise, applications slow American graduate schools are showing continued interest in students from overseas, but there are signs that the feelings aren't mutual. A report released last Thursday by the Council of Graduate Schools says offers of admissions to international applicants grew at a steady pace of 9% from 2012 to 2013, making it the fourth consecutive year of growth.

Yet during the same time period, applications from overseas grew only 2%, much lower than in previous years. That slowdown is largely due to a 3% decline in applications from China, which sends the largest number of undergradua- tes and graduate students to the United States. (…)The findings are based on responses from 290 graduate schools that were surveyed in June and July. The respon- dents award a majority of the graduate degrees given to international students in the United States and include many of the country's largest graduate institutions.

Despite the drop in applications from China, offers of admission to Chinese students rose 5%. Debra W Stewart, presi- dent of the council, said the disparity between the two figures does not necessarily mean that graduate schools have been forced to take less qualified students, because the pool of applicants from China is so large. (…) “The real driver here is India,” said Stewart. It's unclear what triggered the change, she said, noting that a variety of factors, such as local economies and student perceptions, could play a role. "The India market has always been volati- le." Offers of admission also grew to students from the Middle East and Brazil, 12% and 46% respectively.

Jeff Allum, the council's director of research and policy analysis, said government scholarship programmes in those places contributed to the increases. He cautioned, however, that the overall number of students was small. Brazilian students, for example, make up 1% of the total number of offers to foreign students. Offers to students from South Korea, the country that sends the third largest number of students, continued a downward trend, falling 10%. Since 2010 the pace of offers has either been flat or has declined. Applications from the country have shown similar stagna- tion. 8 / 2013 15

(…) Among those that experienced large decreases, the reasons most often cited were increased competition, including from online programmes and foreign institutions, and money problems, like the uncertainty of financial aid for pros- pective students. With those that reported an increase in applications, many cited new foreign recruitment efforts as a factor.

(..) Some institutions said a decision to make admissions deadlines earlier in the year had led to a decline in applica- tions, while others said the same move had contributed to an increase. The council will continue to examine the rea- sons behind the changes in applications in a report due this autumn, which will include enrolment data, Allum said. But only time will tell whether the worrisome information about China portends something more serious.

For more information, please visit www.universityworldnews.com

EU Presidency conference on European Higher Education in the World

Following the recent EC Communication on the internationalisation of higher education, the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of EU recently (5-6 September) organised in Vilnius an international conference on “European Higher Education in the World”. The event brought together HE stakeholders from the EU and beyond, for discussions on internationalisation proc- esses, and on the future place of Europe in the global higher education landscape. EUA’s Michael Gaebel was invited to present the perspective of European universities on the topic of internationalisation following EUA’s re- cent membership survey on this topic and also the discussions at the last EUA Annual Conference in Ghent.

More information and presentations from this event can be found on the conference website.

FRINDOC project: Call for Participation in pilot group

In the context of the “Framework for the Internationalisation of Doctoral Education” (FRINDOC) project, EUA is launching a call for universities to participate in a pilot group and contribute to the finalisation of an online tool which the project is developing.

The FRINDOC project aims at providing a comprehensive overview of good practices and valuable experiences re- garding internationalisation of doctoral education for universities. The online tool will help universities with the plan- ning and implementation of internationalisation strategies for doctoral education and enable universities to attain a united picture of strategic goals, capacity and possibilities to implement the right structures for their particular pro- file.

The pilot group will be obliged to participate in tw o working groups where they will engage in discussions about the elements of successful internationalisation of doctoral education and critically evaluate the proposed tool. Based on this consultation process, the tool will be refined and a statement of good practice will accompany the launch of the final version. The first working group is scheduled to take place at the University of Bergen, Norway, from 13 to 14 February 2014. A follow-up evaluation working group is expected to take place in September 2014 at the University of Camerino, Italy.

If you are interested in participating in the FRINDOC pilot group, please consult the full text of the Call for Participa- tion on the project page and return the application form by email to [email protected] by midday on 11 Octo- ber.

Further information about the project can be found at www.eua.be/FRINDOC

Global Senior Capstone Project

Purdue College of Technology is seeking collaboration with European universities with on Global Senior Capstone Projects for engineering students. Projects must be on subjects just beyond the universities’ present courses, challen- ging for out of the box thinking and self directed learning, and requirining multiple solutions evaluation, with a suffi- cient team approach scope. Multidisciplinarity is also desirable but not essential.

Would you be interested in participating in this initiative, please contact SEFI HQ [email protected] 8 / 2013 16

Gender Diversity in HE

More women with a doctoral degree Figures released by the Federal Statistical Office suggest that the number of women in Germany holding a doctoral degree is on the increase. However, women continue to be underrepresented in research and development. The survey on the careers of highly qualified people – those having graduated from a higher education institution with or without a doctoral degree – was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, or BMBF.

The share of the overall population holding degrees has seen a significant increase, from 10.5% in 2001 to 13.2 % in 2011. In this period, more and more women opted for doctoral degrees. Among those under 45 years old, at 41% the share of women holding a doctoral degree in 2011 was almost twice as high as it was among those who were 55 years old or older (22%).

Around 752,000 people held a doctoral degree in 2011, and the share of women – regardless of age – was 31%. The survey also shows that slightly more than half of all holders of doctoral degrees in 2011 had a non-academic family background. Women are increasingly strongly represented in what used to be traditional male domains: mathematics, informatics, natural sciences and engineering subjects. In these traditionally male fields, while women’s share of doctorates in 2011 across all age groups was at 22%, it was already 27% among the women under 45 years old. And in the youngest age group in natural sciences and mathe- matics, the share of women with a doctoral degree was found to be almost twice as high as in the oldest group.

Federal Education Minister Johanna Wanka welcomed these developments, commenting that the figures “demonstrate that we are succeeding in encouraging more and more women to make full use of their potential”.

However, women doctoral degree holders continue to be strongly underrepresented in research and development. In 2011, a mere quarter of the 93,000 doctoral degree holders under the age of 65 were women. “We can no longer afford to do without women’s creativeness and innovative potential to such an extent,” Wanka warned. “This is not just about equal opportunities – the performance of our research and industry is at stake as well.”

The BMBF launched a programme to promote women’s careers as professors in 2007. Since then, 260 women profes- sors have been newly appointed.

Also, higher education institutions have been requested to present equal opportunities concepts that are aimed at improving prospects for women at all qualification levels in higher education and research.

Research organisations outside universities have set targets to recruit more women and make the results of their measures transparent, too. For more information, please visit www.universityworldnews.com SEFI is the largest network of higher engineering education institutions (HEIs) and educators in Europe.

It is an international non-profit organisation created in 1973 to contribute to the development and improvement of HEE in Europe, to reinforce the position of the engineering professionals in society, to promote information about HEE and improve communication between teachers, researchers and students, to reinforce the university-business cooperation and to encourage the European dimension in higher engineering education.

Through its membership composed of HEIs, academic staff, students, related associations and companies, SEFI connects over 1 million students and 158000 academic staff members in 48 countries.

To reach its goals, SEFI implements diverse activities such as Annual Confer- ences, Ad hoc seminars/workshops organised by its thematic working groups and committees, SEFI organises the European Engineering Deans Conven- tions, publishes a series of Scientific publications (European Journal of Engi- neering Education) and Position Papers, is involved in European projects, co- operates with other major European and international associations and inter- national bodies (European Commission, UNESCO, Council of Europe, OECD).

SEFI also participated in the creation of ENAEE, IFEES, EuroPace, IACEE and more recently of the Institute for the development of Engineering Academics, IIDEA, and of the European Engineering Deans Council, EEDC.

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