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Brussels, 15th October 2011 LIAISON OFFICERS’ MEETING IN POZNAN – follow up ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This year’s Liaison Officers’ Meeting was attended by 25 participants from 20 Santander Group universities. We are most grateful to our host, the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, for organising this event and for their hospitality. A special word of gratitude goes to Prof. Jacek Witkoś, Vice-Rector for International Relations, Ms. Joanna Janas and Joanna Zadarko from the International Relations Office as well as Anneroos Dijkhuis from Eindhoven University of Technology for their efforts to prepare this successful event.
SG BERKELEY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Santander Group would like to inform its members about the opening of the application procedure for the Berkeley Exchange Programme 2012/2013. The SG has developed relations with the prestigious University of California at Berkeley known as one of world's top universities. This cooperation enables students from the SG member universities to study at Berkeley for one semester. For more details on the application procedure, please visit our Latest News and Events section. The application should be submitted to the SG Secretariat by 1st March 2012. For further information on the Lessons Learned from our cooperation with Berkeley in the past years, please visit our Intranet Section.
STEP PROGRAMME - Student Training Exchange Programme at International Offices
The Santander Group is launching a placement programme for this academic year addressed to students from our member universities at International Offices. The main objective of the STEP Programme is to give students the opportunity to learn how an IRO works on a daily basis and reinforce the existing links between the International Relations Offices, leading to a more diversified offer in terms of future co-operation within the SG Network. For more information about the programme, please visit the SG News and Events section.
LAUNCH OF THE EM-iDEA PROJECT – FIRST PROJECT AT GHENT UNIVERSITY
We are pleased to announce the launch of the EM-iDEA project Erasmus Mundus community together to disseminate, exchange and act in which the Santander Group is a partner. The project aims to create an Erasmus Mundus (EM) community to exploit, explain, and discuss its involvement in the Erasmus Mundus programme, so as to find ways to strengthen and improve it. The geographical scope of the project targets the following regions outside: Africa, Northern and Latin America, and Europe's neighbouring countries. The SG Network will be involved in the work packages dedicated to needs analyses, identification of external co-operation opportunities, and dissemination of project outcomes. The EM-IDEA project provides a forum for the SG members, particularly co-ordinators or partners in the Erasmus Mundus projects, to communicate expectations or ideas brought forward by beneficiaries of EM Programme on the question of sustainability of EM partnerships. We would like to invite you to the First Conference organized within the framework of the EM-IDEA project to be held at Ghent University on 23rd November 2011 where needs and services to be developed for the EM Community will be discussed. More information about this event and the registration form you will find here. We also invite you to visiting the EM-IDEA project website.
ALFA PUNTES - FIRST REGIONAL INTEGREATION SEMINAR, LIMA The First Regional Integration Seminar of the Alfa PUENTES Project will take place between 6-9 November 2011 in Lima, Peru. It is a trans-national activity of European and Latin American organizations of higher education to exchange information on the existing initiatives in Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks. Special emphasis will be put on the identification of synergies among the three sub-regions involved in the Alfa PUENTES project such as Mesoamerica, Andean Community and Mercosur. For more information about this event, please visit the Alfa Puentes website.
USE OF THE SG PERMISES IN BRUSSELS We would like to remind our members of the possibility of using the SG Office in Brussels for workshops or meetings, if necessary. The seminar room can seat up to 30 people and is equipped with a beamer, a screen and a flip chart. An extra room is available for coffee breaks. The office is conveniently located at the centre of the city. To view pictures, click here.
RESEARCH COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES EC PROPOSES 80 BILLION FOR HORIZON 2020 The EC has made a proposal for the EU budget for the next programme period (2014-2020). Known as the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF), the EC has proposed a budget of €1,025 billion in commitments and €972.2 billion in payments. The proposal also contains the financial plans for the successor programme of FP7, Horizon 2020, which is proposed to have a budget of €80 billion. The budget for FP7 stands at €52 billion. In addition, the fields of education and vocational training are to be strengthened and it is proposed to overcome current fragmentation in the area by creating a new integrated programme for education, training and youth. The budget earmarked for this is €15.2 billion, and the aim is to have a clear focus on developing skills and mobility. It is also proposed to increase spending on environmental and climate change issues, with spending on climate-related issues to increase by at least twenty per cent compared to current levels. The EC's proposal on the MFF is formed of two parts. Part one is the more general strategy text and contains the budget proposal itself. Part two contains short fiches on every budget line, including a fiche on Research and Innovation and Education and Culture. In terms of the process to follow, the proposal will now be looked at by the EP and Council and it is likely that amendments will be made to the current proposal before it is finally adopted. Formally, the MFF is approved by a unanimous decision of the Council of Ministers, but not before the EP has given it its consent. Negotiations on this are likely to take a number of years before final agreement is reached. For further information, please click on this link.
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM MEMBERS AND PARTNERS
THE FIRST EAIE ACADEMY – POLYTECHINC UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, 14-18 NOVEMBER 2011 The European Association for International Education (EAIE) is organising its first Academy to be held in the Polytechnic University of Valencia between 14-18 November 2011. The programme will cover a variety of training courses in different fields, such as inter-cultural communication, marketing and recruitment, management, etc. In addition, evening sessions and networking events will be also organised for further professional development. For more information about the programme or to register online, please visit the EAIE website. Please note that the number of places is limited and online registrations should be submitted by 28th October.
FORUM CEICS 2011 - ROVIRA I VIRGILI UNIVERSITY, TARRAGONA The Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia (CEICS) has organised its first Forum to be held in Tarragona between 9-11 November 2011. The Forum aims to strength the CEICS community, which includes campus's core members and associates, its partners as well as other actors related to the project's areas of interest. The activities organised will show the vision of the Campus of Excellence, will analyse priority issues, and reinforce the CEIC's areas of specialisation: chemistry, nutrition and health, heritage and culture, oenology and tourism. For more information about the CEICS Forum programme or to register online, please visit the CEICS website.
DATE REMINDERS 6-9 November 2011 – Alfa Puentes - Fist Regional Integrational Seminar, Lima, Peru. 9-11 November 2011 - Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain. 23 November 2011 - The first EM-iDEA Conference, Ghent University, Belgium. 1st March 2012 – Submission date of applications for the Berkeley Exchange Programme. 14-16 June 2012 – SG General Assembly, Malmö University, Sweden.
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