Discuss and agree upon:

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NOVA Seminar 2005The Base and Core Activities of
NOVAJune 2-3 Tromsø in Norway NOVA 10 years
Past years progress and some future
perspectives Paul Jensén Rector of NOVA
Paul Jensén, 050601_1
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NOVA Seminar 2005NOVA Strategy 2004 - 2006
2 focus areas
Research
Education
MSc
PhD
Paul Jensén, 050601_2
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Coordinated plant pathology education.
• Internal. June 2004.

PhD

• Quality and procedures in relation to PhD
  courses. Internal. August 2004.

• NOVA-BOVA network and projects 2002-2004.
  External, based on internal self-evaluation.
  Autumn 2004 January 2005.

NOVA- BOVA
Evaluations
MSc

• Future
• NOVA University Network
• Internal end of 2005.
• External end of 2006.

NOVA
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NOVA Seminar 2005PhD course evaluationProf.
Sune Linder, SLU
Based on courses 2003/general aspects.

• Main conclusions
• Courses very successful and appreciated by
  students and teachers.
• Continue to develop format and content of
  applications.
• Advertise courses more widely. Ensure that
  network members in each country are more active
  in recruiting students.
• Not acceptable that more than 50 of the
  students coming from host country can get NOVA
  support.
• Forest Faculty of University of Joensuu,
  Finland, should be invited to be a member of
  NOVA. Strengthen the forest related issues.

Discussed by KUF and at a special seminar March
2005.
Paul Jensén, 050601_4
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Revised web-based system for application.
• New web-based system for report and evaluation.

Administrative systems
Research education
PhD courses
Evaluation
Paul Jensén, 050601_5
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NOVA Seminar 2005NOVA PhD courses 2000 - 2006
Paul Jensén, 050601_5a
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NOVA Seminar 2005EU applicationfor Marie Curie
Conferences and Training Courses - Series of
events 2006 - 2009
Working group NOVA secretariat and Salla
Marttila. Several NOVA PhD course networks
involved.
Deadline May 18, 2005
Project title Safe and Sustainable Food
Production Chains in Europe (AGRONOVA)
Coordinator SLU (NOVA)
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NOVA Seminar 2005AGRONOVA
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NOVA Seminar 2005EU applicationfor Marie Curie
Conferences and Training Courses - Series of
events 2006 - 2009
Working group NOVA secretariat and Salla
Marttila. Several NOVA PhD course networks
involved.
Deadline May 18, 2005
Project title Safe and Sustainable Food
Production Chains in Europe (AGRONOVA)
Coordinator SLU (NOVA)
Total amount applied ca 1.3 M Euro

• Potential areas for future MSc applications
• Forestry
• Veterinary Medicine
• Landscape planning

Paul Jensén, 050601_5b
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspectiveMSc education

• 7 projects applied for funding 2004, 6 were
  approved by KUF
• Improved dialogue with faculties/institutes
• Improved administrative support
• Successful applications for external funding
  NMR/Nordplus

• Significant progress in prioritized MSc areas
  Joint Nordic Master/Magister programmes,
  intensive/distant courses.

Paul Jensén, 050601_6
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspectiveProgress in model areas

• Urban Forestry Urban Greening
• New programme 1 year
• 94 applications 30 sites
• Start September 1, 2005
• Next step 2-year programme?

Urban Forestry Urban Greening
MSc education
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspectiveProgress in model areas

• Biosystem Engineering
• Joint Nordic Master Programme
• Structure under which nationally anchored
  programmes/themes are offered, such as
• Farm buildings, SLU (Alnarp)
• Agricultural Systems Eng., SLU (Ultuna)
• Plant Prod. Machinery, HU-AF
• Waste Management in Developing Countries, UMB
• Aquacultural Eng., UMB
• External funding from Nordplus 27.000 euro year
  1. (Probably for 2 more
  years)

Biosystems Engineering
Urban Forestry Urban Greening
MSc education
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspectiveProgress in model areas
Biosystems Engineering

• Aquaculture
• Joint Nordic Master Programme
• External funding from Nordplus 27.500 euro year
  1. (Probably for 2 more
  years.)

Urban Forestry Urban Greening
MSc education
Aquaculture
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspectiveProgress in model areas

• Veterinary Medicine
• 3 intensive courses
• October 2005, June 2006 resp. Autumn 2006.
• Nordplus funding

Biosystems Engineering
Urban Forestry Urban Greening
MSc education
Aquaculture
Veterinary Medicine
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspectiveProgress in model areas
Distance courses
Biosystems Engineering

• Agroecology
• Euroforester

Urban Forestry Urban Greening
MSc education
Aquaculture
ITC Workshop (second) in Lithuania, April 2005
Veterinary Medicine
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Course recognition
• Procedure restricted to the 4 most prioritized
  areas
• Agro-ecology
• Aquaculture
• Biosystems Engineering
• UFUG

MSc education
Course recognition

• Areas that may be considered
• Horticulture
• Veterinary medicine

• Two main objectives related to the process
• To clarify level of overlapping between national
  courses
• To ensure that uniqe courses enclosed in NOVA
  programmes are formally recognized by all
  relevant institutions.

Paul Jensén, 050601_8
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective
Student mobility in Nordplus 2002/03 33
students 2003/04 43 students 2004/05 63 students
Student mobility/ funding
MSc education
Course recognition
Nordplus funding 2004/05 42.000
euro 2005/06 35.000 euro NOVA funding
Discussions with NMR
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Bologna process
• The actual implementations of the Bologna
  principles is a national and subsequently an
  institutional matter rather than a network
  matter.
• KUF consider a yearly Bologna implementation
  status a relevant tool in NOVA activities.
• From KUF report on Activities June-Dec 2004 to
  NOVA Board.

Student mobility/ funding
MSc education
Course recognition
Bologna process
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Positive evaluation of NOVA-BOVA cooperation
  2002-2004

External funding

• Successful funding of activities.

NOVA-BOVA project
Evaluation
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NOVA Seminar 2005Raised external funds, in euro
thousand
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Positive evaluation of NOVA-BOVA cooperation
  2002-2004

External funding

• Successful funding of activities.

• Some conclusions and recommendations from
  external evaluator.

NOVA-BOVA project
Evaluation
Recommendations
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Report of the external evaluator on the NOVA-BOVA
self-evaluation (Jan 2005) Dr. Cees M. Karssen

• The future of the NOVA-BOVA co-operations is
  uncertain. In spite of the successful programmes
  of the networks, clear statements about the
  future are missing.
• The future of NOVA-BOVA is fully dependent on the
  acquirement of external financial support. It has
  to take advantage of the political priority for
  Baltic-Nordic co-operation.
• To become a likely candidate for such funding it
  is an urgent priority that the Boards of both
  BOVA and NOVA express again their full support to
  the network of networks and formulate a clear
  joint mission and policy document. BOVA has to
  give priority to its internal organisation and
  the formulation of its strategy. NOVA has to make
  clear what its ambitions are towards the
  co-operation.

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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective

• Positive evaluation of NOVA-BOVA cooperation
  2002-2004

External funding

• Successful funding of activities.

• Some conclusions and recommendations from
  external evaluator.

NOVA-BOVA project
Evaluation
Recommendations

• NOVA-BOVA planning group meeting April 22, 2005
• Recommendations to NOVA respectively BOVA board
• Decisions expected Autumn 2005.

Board decision about future
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NOVA Seminar 2005Outcome in a one-year
perspective
Starting position on the eve of 2005
A 10 decrease of internal funding.
Raised external funds 2005 Nordplus (decision
in May) Mobility 35.000 euro Networks 9.000
euro Intensive courses 13.000 euro Programmes 5
5.000 euro Pedictnet, library tools
aquaculture 20.000 euro In total (out of 260.127
euro) 132.000 euro
NCM
External Funding 2005
Nordplus
NordForsk (PhD course applications)
NCM (decision in April) Some NOVA model
areas Tromsø seminar Jubilee publication In
total 668.000 DKK (100) NCM Significant
funding to various NOVA-BOVA activities.
EU Marie Curie application
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NOVA Seminar 2005The New NOVA Organization

• Creates a clearer distinction between political
  and administrative matters easier to separate.

• Discussion relating to research and education
  are discussed in KUF with input from relevant
  academic and adminsitrative staff or the NOVA
  secretariat.

• NOVA coordinators participate in KUF meetings.
• Involvement of NOVA coordinators is an important
  step in anchoring NOVA matters at member
  institutions.

• KUF members and NOVA Teams are working to
  increase acknowledgement and use of NOVA among
  faculty members and students.

• KUF report to NOVA Board on activities June-Dec
  2004.

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Outcome in a one-year
perspective Visibility

• Significantly improved web-site, launched
  January 2005.

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May 200524 NOVA meeting with Faculty of
Forestry, Univ. of Joensuu25 NOVA invited to
SNS Board meeting in Joensuu
2005-05-17 Interested in technology and life
sciences? Biosystems Engineering combines
bioenvironmental engineering, machine systems,
automation and buildings for crop and animal
production, and bio-energy systems. Read more
about the MSc course Introduction in Biosystems
Engineering gtgtgt ..................................
..................................................
..................................................
............... 2005-04-26 Are you interested in
"Field endocrinology Mechanisms for life
cycles"? An extra course is planned for 15-19
August, 2005. Deadline for application June 1,
2005. Read more gtgtgt ..............................
..................................................
..................................................
................... 2005-04-20 Rammeprogram er
lagt fram for Europaparlamentet Europakommisjonen
har lagt fram sitt forslag til 7. Rammeprogram
for Europaparlamentet. Forslaget skal senere i
vår behandles av Ministerrådet. Kommisjonen
foreslår at det bevilges 73 mrd til forskning i
perioden 2007-2013 Av Arne Flåøyen, Nasjonal
Ekspert, Europakommisjonen, Brussel Bakgrund
gtgtgt Rammeprogram gtgtgt Rammeprogram for området
mat, landbruk og bioteknologi gtgtgt ................
..................................................
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2005-04-05 NOVA Newsletter no 42005-02-18 NOVA
Newsletter no 3
2005-04-21 NOVA seminar 2005 2005-01-17 New names
on NLH and LBH 2004-09-22 NOVA PhD-courses
2005 2004-09-09 NOVA Prize Winner 2004
..........................PhD courseApplication
DeadlineMay 30, 2005Reproduction...............
...........
2004-05-31 NOVA-BOVA Meeting 2004-04-29 NOVA-BOVA
in Russia
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NOVA Seminar 2005Martin Solli, Chairman of NOVA
Student Forum, NSFApril 2005
Jeg var å fortalte Studenttinget (øverste
studentorgenet ved UMB) om NOVA UN og hvordan det
fungerer, hvilken utfordringer vi har og hva NOVA
UN kan tilby den enkelte student. De fleste
kjente til NOVA, men de som ikke gjorde det ble
overrasket over hvilken muligheter de har til å
ta kurser i de andre Nordiske landene. Mange
stilte spørsmål om hvorfor ikke universitetet
hade mer informasjon angående dette? Noen lurte
på om det ikke var mulig å reise uten at man hade
en plass å bo. De så ikke på hybel som noe
problem!
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NOVA Seminar 2005 Outcome in a one-year
perspective Visibility

• Significantly improved web-site, launched
  January 2005.

• NOVA Newsletter
• Presentation of NOVA at international day at
  some NOVA universities.
• NOVA prize
• Articles in newspapers, magazines and journals.

• Jubilee publication (Project lead by NOVA
  rector. Support group. External funding. Ready
  late 2005.)

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Outcome in a one-year
perspective External relations

• Information exchange, cooperation, funding
• Important external contacts
• NCM/NordForsk/HØGUT/Nordplus/SNS (Forestry)

• University of Joensuu, Forestry faculty

• BOVA University (4 members) and some Russian
  universities

• NJF (Agriculture)

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Outcome in a one-year
perspective Summary

• NOVA has made successful evaluations of some
  prioritized MSc/PhD activities, pointing at
  relevance and good quality but also giving much
  advice for future.

• NOVA has developed the PhD course activities in
  different ways, increasing quality of
  applications, visibility and possibilities for
  funding.

• NOVA has made significant progress in developing
  the model MSc cooperation areas by improving the
  networks, anchoring at home universities, strong
  NOVA secretariat support and external
  co-financing.

• NOVA has fortified a further increase of student
  mobility between the NOVA members as well as from
  the Baltic countries to NOVA.

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Outcome in a one-year
perspective Summary (cont.)

• NOVA has created a postition to act as an engine
  for cooperation in the Baltic Sea region in our
  areas of interest.

• NOVA has succeded to receive considerable
  external funding.

• The new NOVA organization functions very well.

• Increased visibility at member institutions.

• Improved contacts and cooperation with relevant
  Nordic organizations/universities.

• Reached the goal being noted as a model for
  others.

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Outcome in relation to

• Strategy 2004- 2006 Very good!
• Activity plan 2005 Very good so far!

• Annual report 2004
• Expected Board decision June 3
• On NOVA web-site in June
• In print July/August

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Some future perspectives to
consider
Role of NOVA in next strategic period 2007-2010
(4 years)?

• Important topics
• NOVA tasks
• Focus areas?
• Division of positions?

• NOVA membership/partnership?
• Internal funding?

• Board composition?

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NOVA Seminar 2005 Final words
Many thanks!
Paul Jensén, 050601_19