Date:
Event location: Odessa
Type: Special Events
The Corfu yearly encounter being well appreciated by its participants, university leaders from South East Europe mainly, the Greek government decided to pursue the support of the Summer School and the Magna Charta was asked to facilitate another session in 2006 – thus testing the value and interest of its on-going work on a group of partner institutions which experience the political, financial and social difficulties that are usual in transition countries.
In June 2006, the Kontokali Bay Hotel welcomed some 19 participants from Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, Greece, Uzbekistan, Croatia, Bosnia Hercegovina, and Macedonia, the focus of the discussions being placed on Tuesday 20 June most half day sessions being facilitated by members of the Observatory. Also a way to keep in touch with the problems met by university leaders in their daily work – when confronted to academic development and trends of international scope, for instance the implementation of the Bologna process that was now affecting universities at curriculum level – sometime with clear reluctance from students and staff, for example in Greece – a fact that led to vivid discussions about ‘Eurocompatibility’.
Prof. Georgi Nikolov Andreev
Vice-Rector, University of Plovdiv
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr. Andris Barblan
Secretary General, Magna Charta Observatory
Bologna, Italy
Prof. Ilir Bozgo
Dean, Gjirokaster Eqrem Cabej University
Gjirokaster, Albania
Dr. Anthony Camilleri
KSU Malta Education Commissioner – ESIB
Malta
Prof. Spiro Caushi
Vice-Rector, Vlora Technological University ‘Ismail Quemali’
Albania
Prof. Branimir Djordjevic
Former Rector, University of Nis
Nis, Serbia
Prof. Ioannis Georthanassis
Vice-Rector, University of Ioannina
Ioannina, Greece
Prof. Ilias Giarenis
Ionian University
Corfu, Greece
Prof. Bashkim Gjergji
University of Tirana
Tirana, Albania
Prof. Dimitris Glaros
President, Education Research Center of Greece
Athens, Greece
Prof. Kemal Guruz
Former President, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK)
Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Mukhamadavas Iriskulovv President, Republica Language Lerning Center, Uzbek State World Languages University
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Prof. Hélène Lamicq,
Former Rector, Université Paris XII, Board member Magna Charta Observatory
Paris, France
Prof. Christos Massalas
Former Rector, University of Ioannina
Greece
Prof. Helena Jasna Mencer
Rector, University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Dragoljub Mirjanic
Rector, University of Banja Luka
Banja Luka, Bosnia Hercegovina
Ms. Athanasia Spyropoulou
Council of Europe, University of Peloponnese
Athens, Greece
Prof. Ljibica Suturkova
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius
FYROM
Prof. Dimitris Tsougarakis
Rector, Ionian University
Corfu, Greece
Tuesday 20 June:
Day of arrival
17.00 - 18.00
Get together and presentation of participants and programme
20.30 - 22.00
Dinner
Wednesday 21 June:
The university for tomorrow
09.00 – 11.00
Andris Barblan, Secretary General, Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Document: The Research/Teaching Nexus, Ulrike Felt, 2005
11.30 - 13.00
Prof.Christos Massalas, former Rector of the University of Ioannina, President of the Administrative Committee of the University of Western Macedonia
“University Evaluation and assessment”
13.30
Lunch
18.00 – 20.00
Case: The Idea of Tomorrow’s University, the Reykjavik taskforce, May 2006
Document: The Luxembourg report. Magna Charta Observatory 2006
20.30 - 22.00
Dinner
Wednesday 21 June:
Universities for Europe, a political agenda
09.00 – 11.00
Prof. Kemal Guruz , former President, Turkish Council of Higher Education, Ankara
Document: The EU Communication on University modernisation
11.30 – 13.00
Andris Barblan, Secretary General, Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Document: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, June 2006 Recommendation on Academic freedom and university autonomy
13.30
Lunch
18.00 – 20.00
Case: Suggestions for the London Ministerial conference
Document: The Novi Sad initiative, November 2005
20. 30 - 22.00
Dinner
Friday 23 June:
Universities for accountability – an obligation of freedom
09.00 – 11.00
Hélène Lamicq, Université de Paris 12
Document: ESIB/Magna Charta Statement of concern and Essay
11.30 – 13.00
Anthony Camilleri, Malta Education Commissioner, ESIB, Brussels: the students viewpoint
13.30
Lunch
18.00 – 20.00
Panel with participants: Strategies for university integrity
Saturday 24 June:
Managing University Autonomy in South East Europe: steps of convergence
09.00 – 10.00
Dimitris Tsougarakis, Rector Ionian University, Corfu “The Greek example”
10.00 – 11.00
Dimitris Glaros, President of the Education Research Center of Greece “Regional university convergence”
11.30 – 12.30
Andris Barblan: debriefing and assessment of the meeting
13.00 & afternoon
Lunch followed by excursion for those participants leaving late on Saturday or on Sunday, depending on their travel connections.
Sunday 25 June:
Day of departure
