UNICA international partnership

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UNICA international partnership membership
for international organisations and networks

• Lucas Zinner
• Cyprus, 28th April.2009

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• Description The universities have usually
  cooperation and exchange agreements at different
  levels department, faculty and university
  level.
• When are the agreements at the university level
  appropriate and which principles and guidelines
  should be used for these agreements?
• Some university agreements tend to be "sleeping
  agreements". Is this a problem? If so, how to
  deal with it?
• The universities are usually members of several
  networks and organizations like UNICA, EUA, IAU
  etc. Which are the benefits of being member of
  different types of networks and organisations?
  How to make use of it within the universities?

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• Content of agreements
• to exchange researchers, students, staff
• to foster co-operations in research and teaching
  
• to improve the way we manage and administer our
  universities
• to share best practices

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• Who are the target groups
• Researchers
• Students
• Administration
• Who are the agreements advocates
• Management / Rectorate / Deans
• Researchers
• Administration
• People outside university

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• What about effectiveness?
• Who needs agreements and why?
• Why do we need agreements?
• For which kind of activities do we need
  agreements?
• Do they fit into our universitys strategy?
• Who should benefit from them (directly and
  indirectly)?

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• Hypotheses
• Agreements have zero impact w.r.t. research.
• Agreements are necessary to organize student
  exchange.
• Agreements may have large impacts concerning the
  development of our universities.

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• Conclusions
• Invest in those partnerships where there are
  common interests.
• agreements for the showcase are sometimes
  necessary, but clarify in the beginning
• small is beautiful.