Your monthly collection of news, events, and resources in entrepreneurship and engagement in higher education
February 2022
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EVENTS OF THE MONTH!
FEBRUARY 17, 2022 | 16:00 (CET)
Building your own Digital Innovation Acceleration Programme
We invite you to join our third webinar as part of our Transforming Higher Education series. During this webinar, our Chair, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kliewe, will provide you with an example of how a German university has implemented a digital acceleration programme since 2020. Professor Kilewe will outline lessons learned, and give recommendations on how universities can build their own digital acceleration programme. Register here.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022 | 8PM (CET) 2PM (EDT)
ACEEU Accreditation Webinar (Americas)
In this 1-hour long free webinar, participants will be given a general overview of ACEEU, including ACEEU's general understanding of what an entrepreneurial and engaged university/academic unit is, benefits of ACEEU accreditation, information on the accreditation process and its standards as well as key learnings from institutions that have gone through the process. After a 45 minute presentation, the questions of participants will be answered. Register here.
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SPOTLIGHT OF THE MONTH!
Did you hear me? Framework for a listening culture in the engaged university
This article presents how The Insight Discovery Matrix, a model based on business relations with customers, can be used in universities to understand its relationship with society. It proposes deep listening and entrepreneurial behaviour as means for the engaged university to align its activities with external needs.
HEPI and Advance HE are hosting a webinar on the future of higher education. Today’s universities face uncertain funding, the need for increased digital technology, fluctuations in demand, and questions over the role of higher education in society. Should universities aim to transform into new types of institutions? Should the higher education sector be more diverse?
OECD Local Skills Week Future-Proofing Local Skills Systems
The jobs and the skills required to perform them are changing at an ever-faster pace. This event will explore how communities can overcome local skills gaps by helping people reskill and upskill throughout their working lives. The conference will bring together leading experts as well as local policymakers, businesses, employee representatives, and practitioners.
While most colleges tend to compete instead of collaborating, this network of colleges in New Mexico shows a revolutionary approach to transform the way they function. This week’s episode explores the Collaborative for Higher Education Shared Services. It’s made up, so far, of five independent community colleges in New Mexico that have teamed up because they think they’re stronger together than apart. Listen here.
A closer look at Open Access to research publications in European universities
Open Access publications have great societal value, allowing transparent and accessible scientific research.
How do universities monitor and promote Open Access activities?
This follow-up to the 2020-21 EUA Open Science Survey addresses these and other questions, providing further insight into universities’ Open Access experiences. Read here.
Remove barriers to university cooperation, urges EUA
The European Strategy for Universities and recommendations for building bridges for effective European higher education cooperation were unveiled by the European Commission on 18 January. The president of European University Association highlights the common vision that EUA shares with the European Commission: universities "without walls", engaged and autonomous. Find out more in this article. Read here.
PODCAST: The plusses and minuses of university rankings
What indicators can be considered meaningful for evaluating HEIs? Every year, university leaders around the world anxiously await the publication of the latest university rankings. And yet, there is hardly a more fiercely contested topic in international higher education than university rankings. This podcast brings Professor Ellen Hazelkorn, to discuss what is perhaps the most controversial topic in HE. Listen here.
Why universities need to own entrepreneurial education
Are universities are doing enough to keep young entrepreneurs engaged and ensuring they have the tools to navigate the sea of sharks they are about to enter? HEIs should help entrepreneurial students develop products, show them how to successfully bring them to market, and provide them with the economic and moral compass to guide them in their entrepreneurial endeavors. Read here.
Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities (ACEEU), Wilhelm Schickard Strasse, 14, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia 48149, Germany
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