2005 CONFERENCE

Thursday 15 September 2005  h 9.00

University autonomy in the institutional balancing of teaching and research

PROGRAMME

Pier Ugo Calzolari – Rector of University of Bologna
Welcome

Fabio Roversi-Monaco – President of the Collegium Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Introductory remarks

Andris Barblan – Secretary General Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Highlights of the work of the Observatory

Conference session I
chair: Fabio Roversi-Monaco – President of the Collegium Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Ulrike Felt – University of Vienna
Key points of the background study
followed by a panel with Conference delegates on
The challenges to university leaders

Conference session II
chair: Kenneth Edwards – Chair of  the Board
Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Michael Gibbons – former Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London

The multitask university in a knowledge society

Counterpoint from Latin America

General discussion

Thursday 15 September 2005 h 14.30

Conference session III     
chair: Josep Bricall – former Rector of University of Barcelona

Paolo Blasi – former Rector of University of Florence, former member of the European Research Advisory Board of the EU Commission
Science as a practice: extending university autonomy by combining research and teaching

Jon Torfi Jonasson – University of Iceland, Reykjavik Counterpoint from the faculty

Aula Absidale
Via de’ Chiari, 25/a– Bologna

Conference session IV

chair: Üstün Ergüder – Director of Istanbul Policy Centre at Sabanci University, Istanbul
Michael Daxner – former UN Commissioner for Education in Kosovo, Oldenburg
Ulrike Felt –  University of Vienna
Peter Magrath – President of National Association of  State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington
Hélène Lamicq – former President of University of Paris XII
Panel on
Institutional autonomy and the ‘higher education’ profession
Debriefing and suggestions for follow up by new signatories
Kenneth Edwards – Chair of the Board
Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Josef Jarab – Member of the Collegium
Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Concluding remarks

Friday 16 September 2005 h. 10.00
The Ceremony of the Signature of the Magna Charta Universitatum

Pier Ugo Calzolari – Rector of University of Bologna
Welcome address

Fabio Roversi-Monaco – President of the Collegium Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Introduction and presentation of keynote
Peter Magrath – President of National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington
The symbiosis between Teaching and Research, a specificity for tomorrow’s universities?

Fabio Roversi-Monaco – President of the Collegium Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum
Concluding remarks

Aula Magna di S. Lucia
Via Castiglione, 36 – Bologna

| The Program | The Presentation| The Proceedings |