Date:
Event location: Bologna
Type: Magna Charta Anniversaries
Aula di Santa Lucia, University of Bologna
Via Castiglione 36
16-17 September 2010
PRESENTATION
On 18 September 1988, in the presence of many political leaders and represetatives of the society, 388 rectors from Europe and beyond signed the Magna Charta Universitatum. The document has since become the major reference for the fundamental values and principles of the university.
Meanwhile the Magna Charta has been signed by some 600 rectors from all over the world and each year more university commit themselves to the principles laid out in the Magna Charta. The higher education scene has developed significantly since 1988 but the relevance of the Magna Charta has remained unchanged.
The 16th September 2010, the Magna Charta Observatory organised a conference to commemorate the 22nd anniversary and to discuss on Making the Magna Charta Values Operational. The idea was to offer an authoritative input to participants, who introduced their own experience, perspectives and suggestions in working groups. This has been followed by the main plenary where moderators of working groups have reported, as panellists, to the whole audience. Participants had have the opportunity to react and intervene in this plenary-panel entitled The Magna Charta Principles and Values in the Daily Routines of a University. On 17 th September, the Magna Charta Observatory, together with the University of Bologna arranged, as every year, the academic ceremony that allowed 61 universities that have not yet signed the Magna Charta to do so.
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Aula di Santa Lucia Via Castiglione 36
09.00 – 09.20
Welcome remarks
Ivano Dionigi, Rector of the University of Bologna, Italy
Opening address
Üstün Ergüder, President of the Magna Charta Observatory Council
09.20 – 09.40
Highlights of the Observatory Activities
Bastian Baumann, Secretary General of the Magna Charta Observatory
09.40 – 10.30
1st Session
The Role of Universities as Promoters of Values
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00
Working Group Sessions
Working Group 1:
Linking Teaching and Research
Working Group 2:
The Significance of Funding for Institutional Mission Setting
Working Group 3:
The Value of Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom for Innovation in Curriculum and Programme Design & Delivery
Working Group 4:
Negotiating with Public Authorities: State and Private Universities
Working Group 5:
Strategic planning and Institutional Autonomy – Concepts and Processes
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.30
Reports from the Working Groups
Interventions from the Audience
Panel: The Magna Charta Principles and Values in the Daily Routines of a University
Carlos Alberto Braumann, Rector, Universidade de Evora, Portugal
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Kropachev, Rector St. Petersburg State University
Mohamed Farghaly, President Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport
Jorge Enrique Silva Duarte, Rector, EAN University, Colombia
Moderated by Martina Vukasovic, Magna Charta Observatory Council
20.00
Gala dinner (at the Rectorate)
Aula Magna di Santa Lucia, Via Castiglione 36
10.30
Ceremony of the Signature of the Magna Charta Universitatum
10.30 – 10.45
Welcome address
Ivano Dionigi, Rector of the University of Bologna, Italy
10.45 – 11.00
Values and Principles Down Under
Peter Rathjen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Australia
11.00 – 11.45
Signature of the Magna Charta Universitatum
11.45 – 12.00
Concluding remarks
Üstün Ergüder, President of the Magna Charta Observatory Council
12.00 – 14.00
Closing buffet lunch
