Speaker:

Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania (1996-2000), Rector of the University of Bucharest (1992-1996)

 10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

Chair:

Michael Daxner, President, Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory, Bologna, Italy

Speaker:

Andrei Marga, Rector, Babeş-Bolyai University, Member of the Collegium of Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory, Romania

Discussion paper: "Values of the Universities"

Invited Respondents:

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C. Peter Magrath, Interim President, West Virginia University, USA

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Dominique Lassarre, Vice-president for Research, University of Nîmes, France, and Vice-Chair of the Education International Europe Standing Committee on Higher Education and Research

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Judith Marie Povilus, Vice President of "Sophia University Institute" at Loppiano / Florence, Italy [biographic references in preparation]

Chair:

Sjur Bergan, Head, Department of Higher Education, Council of Europe

Speaker:

Jürgen Kohler, Professor, University of Greifswald, Germany

Discussion Paper: "Quality“ in European Higher Education"

Invited Respondents:

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Tapio Markkanen, Chairperson, Finnish National Commission for UNESCO, Finland

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Tibor Szanto, Vice-President, ENQA - European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education

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Ivan Rozman, Rector, and Marko Marhl, Vice-Rector for International Affairs, University of Maribor, Slovenia [biographic references in preparation]

Chair:

Peter van der Hijden, Principal Administrator, European Commission [DG Research], Brussels

Speaker:

Georg Winckler, Rector, University of Vienna, Austria

Discussion Paper: "Competitiveness of European Higher Education: An Institutional Issue, and Also a System Issue"

Invited Respondents:

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Andrzej Koźmiński, Rector, Koźmiński University, Poland

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Krista Varantola, Rector, University of Tampere, and the Chairperson of the Finnish Council of University Rectors, Finland

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 Toula Onoufriou, School of Engineering and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus [biographic references in preparation]

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Joseph Shevel, President, Galilee College, Israel

Chair:

Christian Bode, Secretary General, DAAD - The German Academic Exchange Service

Discussion Paper: "Internationalization – Mobility, Competition and Co- operation"

Speakers:

[presenting regional and national perspectives as well as those of international organizations]

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Zhou Nan-Zhao, President, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Network for International Education and Values Education (APNIEVE), China;

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Sibry JM. Tapsoba, Director, African Development Institute, African Development Bank/AfricanDevelopment Fund, Tunisia;

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Ana Lúcia Gazzola, Executive Director, Inhotim Institute, Brazil, and Director [on leave] of the UNESCO´s International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), Venezuela

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Abdallah Bubtana, former Director of UNESCO Office in the Gulf States, Libya

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Radu Mircea Damian, President, Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR), the Council of Europe [biographic references in preparation]