SPEECHES

Welcome and Opening Addresses

Opening Address:

Opening Address (99k)
Ladislav NOVAK, General co-Chair, University of Novi Sad

   

Introductory Session
Higher Education Reform as a Vehicle for Regional Cooperation: View from International Organisations

Introductory Speeches:

Higher Education Institutional Reform as an Advance Guard for the Cooperation within Regional Cooperation Council/South Eastern Europe (87k)
Erhard BUSEK, Special Coordinator, Stability Pact for SEE

Role of the Legislative Changes in Advancing Higher Education Institutional Reform (46k)
Katia DOLGOVA-DREYER, Secretary, CDESR, Council of Europe
  Higher Education Institutional Reforms with Student Eyes
Koen GEVEN, Chairperson, Executive Committee, ESU
Bologna Process and Higher Education Institutional Reform: Do they Relate? (77k)
Per NYBORG, Former CD-ESR Chair, Council of Europe

Higher Education Institutional Reforms – an Emergency Bridge between the Societies in Conflict (77k)
Michel R. RICHTER, Co-Director, SPARK

 

Response to the Conference Questionnaire
Mike DAWNEY, Director, British Isles Region, Middlesex University , London

   

Plenary Session 1
Institutional Reform/Amending Higher Education Legislation: View from National Higher Education Authorities

Plenary Speeches:

Austria: The most sweeping reform in 150 years (46k)
Sigurd HÖLLINGER, Former Director-General, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria

 

Lennart STÅHLE, Head of the University Chancellor's Office, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education Head, Sweden

Institutional reforms – amending higher education legislation: View from the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia (101k)
Radovan FUCHS, Assistant Minister for International Cooperation, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia

   
Plenary Session 2
Higher Education Institutional Reform Process: View from Universities

Plenary Speeches:

Higher Education Institutional Reforms in Poland (755k)
Jerzy WOZNICKI, President, Polish Rectors Foundation, Poland

Institutional Reform of Higher Education: from the Perspective of Siauliai University, Lithuania (132k)
Vincas LAURUTIS, Rector, Siauliai University, Vilniaus, Lithuania
  Radmila MARINKOVIĆ-NEDUČIN, Rector, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
   
Panel Session 1
The Higher Education System

Keynote Speeches:

Autonomy and accountability of universities: the role of buffer bodies (134k)
Tom BOLAND, Chief Executive, Higher Education Authority of Ireland

Foundation Universities: A Model for Reputable, Financially Autonomous and non-Profit Higher Education Institutions (799k)
Aybar ERTEPINAR, Vice-President, Turkish Council of Higher Education

Challenges of Higher Education Systems in South-Eastern Europe: A View from the World Bank (152k)
Nina ARNHOLD, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank

 

Panel Session 2
The Integrated University

Keynote Speeches:

University Autonomy: Definition, Scope and the Austrian example (140k)
Georg WINCKLER, EUA President, Rector, University of Vienna

Institutional Governance and Structures: Coping with Uncertainties (152k)
Lazar VLASCEANU, Deputy Director, UNESCO-CEPES
Student organizing within an integrated university (64k)
Milica POPOVIĆ, Executive Committee Member, ESU