• Transparency of diversity: classification and ranking and the use of performance indicators, Prof. Frans van Vught, ESMU President; advisor to the President of the European Commission, Mr. José Manuel Barroso; former Rector of the University of Twente 
• The European Higher Education Area, speaker from the European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture (name tbc)
• The European Research Area, Mr. Stefaan Hermans, Head of Unit “Universities and Researchers”, Directorate General for Research, European Commission
• The European Modernisation Agenda and challenges in implementation at institutional level, Prof. Peter Gaehtgens, former President of Free University of Berlin and former President of the German Rectors’ Conference

• Bologna after a decade: achievements and challenges, Sir Peter Scott, Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University London
• Ensuring quality in the Bologna Process: principles and tools for quality assurance, Prof. Dirk van Damme, Director, OECD-CERI, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

• Student Learning Outcomes: the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), the National Qualifications frameworks and Tuning, Prof. José Gines Mora, Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London, and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education Management, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
• The AHELO project (Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes), Mr. Richard Yelland, Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division at OECD

• Panel on institutional responses:
  • Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Prof. Miguel Ángel Fernández Prada, Vice-Rector for Studies and European Convergence
  • speaker tbc

• Comparing US and European approaches to "Tuning" - a process designed to clarify learning outcomes for different levels of degrees in particular fields
  • Mr. Robert Wagenaar, EU project Co-ordinator, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
  • Mrs. Chun-Mei Zhao, Senior Scholar at Carnegie Foundation and Director of the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education project

Theme: Responding to the needs of the labour market
Increasing the higher education institutions' responsiveness to the labour market needs (employability, research and innovation, knowledge exchange, mobility and entrepreneurship)

Chair: Prof. José Gines Mora, Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London, and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education Management, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

• Increasing employability: principles and tools for up-skilling the graduates and responding to the challenges of the economic crisis, speaker tbc
• The Reflex and Proflex Projects: Competencies and the labour market, Prof. José Miguel Carot, Director of the Centre for Quality, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, and Prof. Luis Vila, University of Valencia

• Panel on labour market and qualifications:
  • Study case of Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  • Study case of University of Valencia

GLASGOW

Friday, 1 July 2011, Glasgow (9:00-17:00)

• Welcome & Introduction: Strategic developments of the University of Strathclyde in the European context, Dr. Peter West, Chief Operating Officer University of Strathclyde, former President OECD-IMHE programme (Institutional Management in Higher Education) and Executive Board member, European Consortium of Innovative Universities
• The challenges of the European Research Agenda for European universities, Lord Stewart Sutherland, House of Lords, UK Parliament; former Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh; former Vice-Chancellor, University of London

• Research, Innovation & Knowledge Exchange
  
  • Interacting with the region, Prof. John Goddard, Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University; former leader of OECD-IMHE (Institutional Management in Higher Education) project "Supporting the contribution of HEIs to regional development"
  • Generating external funding, Prof. Mike Shattock, Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London; former Registrar of Warwick University (tbc)

• Panel on Research, Innovation & Knowledge Transfer:
  • University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom), Prof. Allister Fergusson, Deputy Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange
  • The Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Prof. Johan Einar Hustad, Pro-Rector for Innovation and External Relations