UUU PANEL N°3 - European Universities defy Brexit (and science fiction)
Channel: ESNA TV
Date: 13/04/2021

This 3rd UUU Panel Debate navigates between past and future. What's the status quo of European University Alliances? What did they achieve so far? How did Corona and Brexit affect them? What are their current challanges? What will the future look like for them? Will they change the European higher education landscape or disappear?

Journalist Tino Brömme, Berlin, and higher ed strategist Peter van der Hijden, Brussels, discuss it. A special light on the damage inflicted by Brexit on British and Continental universities is being cast by journalist Anne Corbett, Paris, and Nenad Zrnić, vice-rector of the University of Belgrade.

What does the future hold? - Pedro Marques talks about a study on university-society interaction in science-fiction literature, and European students tell their utopia of the future university, before Brömme/van der Hijden will consider what the upcoming decisions of the European Council mean for European Universities and what the remaining 2021 might look like for them.

The host of the online debate “United Universities of Europe? How European University Alliances transform higher education,” Tino Brömme, is a journalist and media consultant in the field of knowledge policy since 1999. He graduated in Communication Sciences at the Technische Universität Berlin, founded “WORK|OUT European Students’ Review” and later ESNA European Higher Education News. With the project “United Universities of Europe” (UUU) he has created a platform of dialogue between University Alliances and the public.

Guests: 

        ANNE CORBETT is a Senior Associate at LSE Consulting with long-standing experience in the field of higher education and Europe as a researcher, a journalist and a contributor to public policy. She holds a PhD in political science and a BA in History. Her work has appeared in the education press and British dailies. She continues to write for University World News. Her books include Universities and the Europe of Knowledge.

        PEDRO MARQUES is specialised in regional development, innovation and governance in peripheral regions of the EU. He works at INGENIO, a research institute affiliated with the Technical University of Valencia, a member of the European University Alliance ENHANCE. Not only is he a Ramon y Cajal fellow but also a principal investigator in a Innovative Training Network funded by the European Union. He is co-author of the research paper Fiction lagging behind or non-fiction defending the indefensible? University-industry (et al.) interaction in science fiction.

        PETER VAN DER HIJDEN is an independent strategy advisor, helping European University Alliances on the design and further strategic positioning of their proposals. He has worked for the European Commission where his main experience lied in higher education and research: the Erasmus Programme, the modernisation agenda for universities, the European Higher Education Area (Bologna Process) and the European Research Area.

        NENAD ZRNIĆ is Vice-Rector for International Relations at the University of Belgrade, a member of the European University Alliance Circle.U. He is a full professor in the field of material handling and logistics, a corresponding member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. Since 2015 he is a coordinator of one of the working groups for preparing new Serbian Law on a Higher Education.

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