workshop 3
EMPLOI ACE Assessing work-based learning experiencesWednesday 16 September 09.00–12.30
Learning experiences and career developments are achieved through various formats: formal and informal study, international exchange, study abroad, non-formal practical experiences, etc. These experiences need to be assessed for accreditation. This workshop will offer insights into existing self-assessment platforms of accredited work-based learning experiences.
learning outcome
max participants: 30
€: EUR 100 (EUR 130 non-members)
Chair: Bruno Woeran, LEO-NET Network for Academic Mobility Throughout Europe and Beyond, Austria
Speaker: Marjo van der Valk-Kuijpers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Regional Leonardo Bureau, The Netherlands ; Rocio Blanco, FGUVA - Valladolid University General Foundation, Spain
workshop 7
EMPLOI INTAL IntroductoryDeveloping career and internship servicesWednesday 16 September 09.00–17.00
Well organised careers services will have a positive impact on student employability and can also be a focal point for liaison with business and industry. Providing careers support is particularly important in times of economic difficulty, as students need to develop their transferable and entrepreneurial skills in order to be flexible in the labour market. Increasingly, employability statistics are becoming a key factor in ranking and university marketing. Participants will learn about different career service models, and will develop a service description and action plan for their own institution. Presentations will cover 3 key areas of liaising with employers, providing employability training to students and organising internships.
learning outcome
max participants: 30
€: EUR 165 (EUR 215 non-members)
Chair: Aga Skraburska, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Speaker: Jim Campbell, Univerity of Glasgow
, United Kingdom ; Kirsten Williamson, Petrus Communications, France ; Leo Robben, Euflex Employment Services, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands ; Paul Blackmore, University of Exeter
Careers and employements services, United Kingdom
2.01
EMPLOI MOPILE Accreditation & evaluation EMPLOI Opening Event: Credentials for employabilityThursday 17 September 14.00–16.00
Traditional credentials are no longer sufficient to determine workforce readiness. This panel will discuss the feasibility and advantages of introducing innovative individual credentials to meet the demand for a highly-skilled labour force: Which non-cognitive skills and personal skills are important? How can we measure and credential these skills? What is the best way to measure and credential language skills? The debate will promote interaction.
Chair: Gerben van Lent, ETS Global, The Netherlands
Speaker: David Payne, ETS, USA ; Sagrario Rodriguez Sancho, L´OREAL Espańa, Spain ; Rocio Blanco, FGUVA - Valladolid University General Foundation, Spain ; Wim Zwaenepoel, Careers Management Centre, Spain
workshop 17
EMPLOI Developing employability skills through international work placementsWednesday 16 September and Thursday 17 September 13.30–17.00 (Wed) and 08.30–12.00 (Thurs)
International work experience provides an excellent opportunity for developing all kinds of skills which employers look for - such as team working, adaptability, independence and ability to work with different cultures - as long as the student knows how to identify and describe what he or she has learnt. This workshop is designed to help you understand what are the skills employers look for, and how your students can develop and then demonstrate these skills, by undertaking international work experience. Students need support to be prepared and make the most of an international experience. They also need training to be able to reflect on what they learnt, to recognise and describe what skills have been developed.
This workshop is designed to give participants the tools to help their students through this process, so that their international experiences translate into improved employability.
learning outcome
max participants: 30
€: EUR 165 (EUR 215 non-members)
Chair: Elsa Chalaux, Petrus Communications, France
Speaker: Ariane Curdy, CTRL Culture Relations, Switzerland
3.04
MOPILE EMPLOI Bologna Master programmes in Europe: a diversity of approaches (NEW)Saturday 19 September 15.45–17.15
This session will focus on the results of a new EUA project on the development of Master degrees in Europe, addressing questions such as: what is the impact of the Bologna process; are Masters’ perceived primarily as high level entry points to the labour market, preparation for doctoral studies, or as programmes to address lifelong learning needs?
Chair: Michael Gaebel, European Univerisity Association (EUA), Belgium
Speaker: Michael Gaebel, European Univerisity Association (EUA), Belgium ; Elizabeth Colucci, EUA, Belgium
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EMPLOI MOPILE IntroductoryAdministrating ERASMUS and LEONARDO work placementsThursday 17 September 08.30–12.00
Many struggle with the administrative issues related to ERASMUS and LEONARDO work placements. Difficulties arise from having to handle two different programme lines and the fact that a lot of people are dealing with work placements for the first time. This workshop will provide hands-on information about the necessary administrative forms and procedures, from application to final report and from the single grant holder to the overall project management level.
learning outcome
max participants: 20
€: EUR 100 (EUR 130 non-members)
Chair: Marjo van der Valk-Kuijpers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Regional Leonardo Bureau, The Netherlands
Speaker: Jos Verheyden, EPOS Vzw, Belgium ; Beate Körner, DAAD, Germany
6.06
EMPLOI SAFSA Intercultural competence & languages Measurable learning outcomes for intercultural competence in transnational internshipsSaturday 19 September 11.00–12.30
This session addresses the issue of accountability of intercultural learning through transnational internships. It discusses a model to define which competences are actually acquired, how this skill acquisition can be reflected in learning outcomes and monitored/measured. It will outline the approach chosen for the SKILL2E university-enterprise cooperation project.
Chair: Vilma Kettle, Arcada, Finland
Speaker: Maria Tabuenca, Universidad De Alicante, Spain ; Laura Streitbürger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
(Fachhochschule Salzburg GmbH), Austria ; Gabriele Abermann, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
International Office FH Salzburg, Austria
7.07
M&R EMPLOI International recruitment Marketing employability: recruiting for tomorrowFriday 18 September 16.15–17.45
Higher education is not exempt from a payback culture. The product we sell may be ‘education’ but the prospect of employability after graduation is a decisive selling point. We have to target different groups of students and their intercultural diversity in our marketing. Experts from the UK, Australia and The Netherlands will provide you with marketing tools and strategies to help establish your institution as a vital stepping stone into tomorrow’s world of higher education and employment.
Chair: Nikolaus Douda, Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Austria
Speaker: Aparajita Dutta, Nuffic, The Netherlands ; William Archer, I-Graduate, United Kingdom ; Nannette Ripmeester, i-graduate - ISB, The Netherlands ; Tony Adams, Tony Adams and Associates, Australia
8.03
EMPLOI MOPILE Management & organisation ERASMUS work placements: increased qualityFriday 18 September 14.00–15.30
The switch of student work placement opportunities from LEONARDO to the ERASMUS programme has created various expectations and misinterpretations on the how, what, where and why of management, organisation, recognition, quality, company contacts, multicultural and language preparation and monitoring, to name just a few. This discussion corner shall provide the platform to voice the concerns, suggestions, questions and ways forward on how to improve the programme in the years to come until 2013..
Chair: Serge Schroef, KATHO University College, Belgium
Speaker: Bruno Woeran, LEO-NET Network for Academic Mobility Throughout Europe and Beyond, Austria ; Marjo van der Valk-Kuijpers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Regional Leonardo Bureau, The Netherlands ; Beate Körner, DAAD, Germany
8.09
EMPLOI MOPILE Management & organisation IntroductoryUsing your own networks to support your student work placement managementSaturday 19 September 15.45–17.15
Increasing demand for academic work placements in companies can only be managed efficiently in a network environment. For several years the www.LEO-NET.org network for academic work placement management has provided hands-on information, support and networking opportunities to prospective academic mobility managers under the ERASMUS and LEONARDO programme scheme. This session will discuss a variety of existing networks that participants can tap into in order to increase quality and management of their work placements, and organise, evaluate, accredit and monitor students and recent graduates.
Chair: Laura Howard, University of Cadiz, Spain
Speaker: Bruno Woeran, LEO-NET Network for Academic Mobility Throughout Europe and Beyond, Austria ; Ignacio Sánchez García-Abril, University of Valladolid, Spain ; Wioletta Wegorowska, Santander Group European Universities Network, Belgium
10.08
EMPLOI INTAL Policy & strategy Involving business and industry in higher educationFriday 18 September 11.00–12.30
Developing effective relationships between universities, business and industry can bring many benefits to institutions. In this session, speakers will present international case studies on successful initiatives for developing career and internship offers and employability skills. They will share insights with participants specifically on recent industrial projects focussing on sustainable development, which have enabled institutions to gather feedback for course development.
Chair: Kirsten Williamson, Petrus Communications, France
Speaker: Anja Stoll, EUROMED Marseille School of Management, France ; Maria Teresa Pedra Bruńó, Airbus Operations SAS, France
Resource person: Blas Cabelleros, Airbus, Spain
