Title: ECIU Background, organisation and activities
1ECIUBackground, organisation and activities
2Meetings
Membership January 200711 European
Universities A total of app.202,000
students28,000 staff Plus3 Associate
Partners130,000 students,13000 staff
Linköpings universitet
University of Strathclyde
Aalborg Universitet
University of Warwick
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Universiteit Twente
Universität Dortmund
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Politecnico di Torino
Universidade de Aveiro
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- Southern Federal University, Russia
- Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
3Why the ECIU?
- To better understand, and respond to, the global
pressures on European Universities - To be stronger and more powerful (Consortium
approach vs. single institutional approach) - To share experience and build on each others
strengths - Many networks, but no consortium of innovative
and dynamic universities - ? Foundation of the ECIU in 1997 (ECIU
Charter) - Prof Burton Clarks Creating
Entrepreneurial Universities,
Organizational Pathways of Transformation,
1998
4ECIU Profile
- All ECIU universities have particular strengths
in engineering and social sciences, some in the
arts and humanities - All are relatively young and share
entrepreneurial values - All have close ties to industry and to their
regions - All are committed to developing new forms of
teaching and learning - All are research intensive
- All are committed to an innovative culture within
their walls - All wish to sustain and nurture
internationally-minded staff - All are determined to offer their students high
quality education
5Innovative?
- Aalborg Project and Problem-Based Learning
- Linkoping Medical Image Science and
Visualization - Twente The Entrepreneurial University strong
spin-out/start-up profile THES Top 100 Tech
Univ (79) - TUHH Central location in Europe strong
logistics profile Global Engineers programmes
(with industry) - Dortmund Ruhr-Region Regional Regeneration
6Vision
- ECIU will be one of the global leaders in higher
education through its collective expertise and
commitment to innovation in teaching and learning
and members shared history of fostering economic
and social development in regions in transition.
7Mission
- To contribute to the further development of a
knowledge-based European economy - To build on existing innovation and enhance
quality, in the member institutions, in the areas
of international collaboration teaching and
learning regional development technology
transfer and staff and student development - To develop high-quality collaborative educational
programmes - To act as an agent of change
- To take Europe to the World.
8ECIU Organisation
- Institutional level Organisational level
- ECIU Executive Board (14 members) ECIU
Secretariat (.5fte) - ECIU Local Coordinators ECIU Graduate School
- Project champions Project Manager (.25fte)
- Student Wing
- Light organisation Emphasis on
participation by members - (no central organisation that can
take on a life on its own).
9ECIU Activities
- Three core areas
- ECIU Graduate School
- Improving Student and Staff Mobility
- University Industry Interaction
- Stand-along projects
- Bilateral/trilateral activities
10I. ECIU Graduate School
- ECIUs response to Bologna
- Joint solutions to issues related with fees,
quality assurance and degree structure - Curriculum development and Quality Enhancement
- Promoting mobility of students and preparing
graduates for an increasingly global job-market - Better access to European funding such as
Erasmus Mundus. - Development of joint or double degree masters
programmes
11Programmes
- European Masters in Materials Science (EM)
- European Masters in Environmental Studies (EM)
- European Masters in Global Innovation Management
(EM appl.) - Joint Masters Programme in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship - Joint Masters Programme in Industrial Design and
Manufacturing
12- Emerging programmes
- Communication Information Technologies
- Engineering Life Sciences
- Energy Sustainable Development
- European Studies
- Consideration of internationalising the MBA
Curriculum activities - Joint delivery overseas, exchange of electives
- European MBA
Contact person Randolph Galla TUHH 49 40 42878
4263 r.galla_at_tuhh.de
13II. Improved Student and Staff Mobility
- Objectives
- To increase the numbers of in- and outgoing
students - To facilitate better framework conditions for
student exchanges - To promote staff exchange and stimulate staff
development - To prepare current and future university leaders
for the challenges related to HEIs in the 21st
century (with EU policies and practices, and
pressures from global competition, being high on
the agenda).
14Student Mobility Group
- Exchange agreements between (almost) all ECIU
members - Identifying and highlighting the added value
of ECIU exchanges - New activities to make ECIU mobility more
attractive - ECIU Global Competencies symposium
- Promotion of entrepreneurship activities (in
addition to exchange) - ECIU Fair for International Officers (1 Nov 2007)
Contact person Barbara Schneider University of
Dortmund 0049-(0)231-755-5331
barbara.schneider_at_udo.edu
15Twinning initiative
- Key elements in comparison to individual
mobility - pre-organised and pre-acknowledged modules
- fixed framework to be agreed on only once instead
of individually per student - In comparison to Joint Master Programmes
- Twin programmes are much easier to organise (no
fee discussion, fewer legal constraints) - First step towards a JMP
16Administrative Staff Development
- Objective to help grow and develop individual
members of staff to ensure that they will open
for change, ready to support new and challenging
developments and to generally support an
innovative culture. - Duration of exchange can be from only a few
days to a year or more, decided by the two
parties involved. - Financing and accommodation decided in each
case. - Pre-defined assignments or tasks (report)
Contact person Lise Thorup-Pedersen Aalborg
University ltp_at_adm.aau.dk 0045-96358089
17ECIU Leadership Development
- Addressing European and global challenges facing
HE leaders in the 21st century (e.g. the EU
policy agenda) - Using experiences and cases from the various
institutions across Europe/the ECIU - Providing a different learning experience
compared with traditional leadership programmes
(personal development vs. skill development) - Building a European/global network of
current/future leaders
18III. University Industry Interaction
- To learn from best practice within the
Consortium about knowledge exchange,
entrepreneurship and innovation - To do joint projects (preferably with European
funding) - Entrepreneurship Research (Study of
entrepreneurship support and the entrepreneurial
profile of students). - DIFUSE / Technology Transfer in practice
- EU funded activity, assessing best practice,
sharing experiences and establishing a Charter
for Tech Trans
19EU-Asia University
- Pyeongtaek vision to set up a European-Asian
University - Background
- Relocation of US Forces to Pyeongtaek (US
domination) - Pyeongtaek new hub for trade (huge port
developments) - Objective
- Create an alternative to American university
studies - Increasing the European presence in Korea
through the ECIU
20ECIU beyond Europe
- Globalisation of HE - Importance of overseas
strategic alliances (but continued emphasis on
Europe) - Tec de Monterrey, Mexico
- Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Southern Federal University, Russia
- ECIU Europe as a stepping-stone for the global
market of students, researchers and funding