CHARM EU’s annual conference “Alliances for Society” live from the University of Würzburg in Germany.
Welcome to all you are here in the room and also to those who are online with Us at Alum University and also of our University uh just one further technical remark uh we have Tex um you could find the codes outside but you also have link to it um maybe also for those outside in the program of the conference um as we are a bit late I prepared another short introduction but Dro that
Because already late so I immediately move on to introduce our president Professor who is our president since April 2021 when he was elected and for at least six years and he has been a very strong well force in pushing us joining Chu and also supports us of course are
CH and well without any further Ado give thank you D this is this working yeah so I start with German heart we common I hope you all understand this common means really welcome by heart and and really we are happy that you are here I would like to welcome especially
Miss de Santo from the European commission and our mayor shart who will be also giving us a greeting and uh they are virtually here Dear recors Presidents as well as Vice rectors and vice presidents of the various members and non-members University of the charm EU Al Alliance
Missz from the Europe being here and for organizing in the background who will be giving us speakers colleagues guests from all over Europe and stud do we have students here yes perfect I hope from wburg or from where are you okay perfect thank you ladies and gentlemen on behalf of the US
Maximilians University of wburg I would like to extend a very well warm welcome to all of you not only speaking for myself but also for all members of our University board and Doris fiser introduced herself already and carolene kisker is also here she is our vice president for
Research the University of wburg proudly hosts the charm EU annual conference 2023 and especially welcome welcomes its Partners from the alliance for this meeting charm U with its principles and values perfectly reflects the core values of our University therefore we are lucky that we are able that we were
Able to join the alliance in 2022 and be finally became full partner this year the last months have already shown how positive and enriching the alliance impact on our institution is and we expect more mutual benefits in the future on our shared way to an accessible interconnected and modern European landscape in higher
Education looking at this year’s conference theme alliances for society it feels perfect that wburg was chosen to host this annual meeting our own motto is science for society and this is not just similar but also incorporates the same ideas education science and research at our institutions today
Fulfill a purpose for the Society of today and of tomorrow in the future science provides knowledge New Perspectives perspectives and last but not least solutions for Urgent Social Challenges in order to achieve these ambitious goals charm EU as well as our University are cooperating closely with Partners from all areas and Fields of
Society therefore I would like to thank our cooperation partners and external stakeholders from wburg and the mine Franken region this is called the area here mine is the river and Franconia is the part of the state we are here so mine Franken is is the region here so
The stakeholders from wburg and the mine Franken region joining us here today many thanks go to the industry and handles C wburg schweinf for that would be the Chamber of industry and commerce wburg andford two cities the tech technolog and G Centum wburg the technology and startup Center here in
Vburg for digit innov M Frank Center for digital Innovation mind Frank and inov cburg Innovation and startup Centerburg you all support us to provide successful transfer of knowledge and Technology into application and Society the University of wburg is proud of these cooperations strengthening our city and our region we are convinced
That by joint efforts through charm EU we can be even more beneficial in our work today together with all of you we want to reflect discuss and exchange ideas on how we can achieve our goals how we can Implement our plans on the one hand we will showcas showcasing and
Exchange existing forms of collaboration and on the other hand we will present and discuss new possible ways to engage in the future our University is an internationally oriented University and therefore we are committed to strengthen our strategic Partnerships with in with in all our with all our charm EU
Partners we think that this is especially important in the face of profound changes in and around Europe and the world together as Alliance we are well prepared for an increased increasing worldwide competition in the educational sector the importance of internationalization in higher education institutions makes it necessary to cooperate even
Closer in times of growing centrifugal forces in Europe and political uncertainty Partnerships common values and shared goals go s are more important than ever together and in cooperation with Regal Regional and National governments as well as business and industry Partners we will be able to work effect effectively for a
Sustainable Europe and this is the think I think a very important goal finally I would like to thank all of you participating in this conference for your various and valuable contributions my special thanks goes to the local organizers vice president and our charm EU director of our University
Doris Fisher and her whole chiu team at our University as well as to the complete chiu Alliance especially to the different communication groups for the wonderful musical framework I would like to thank the academic Orchestra of our University under the lead of Marcus Pop I don’t know when you will hear the
Music but uh tonight tonight okay so I’m very happy that he’s here so my many Thanks goes also to Christian shukat the mayor of our city to whom I will pass the world in the following uh uh to whom I will pass the world unfortunately he cannot
Be here in person but he’s sending a virtual greeting to our conference finally I wish us all an interesting exchange many Impressions and fresh ideas you are very very welcome at Julius maximilan University wburg have a pleasant and enjoyable stay at our University and in our beautiful city thank [Applause] you
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Right place conf I wish Pro exchanges and well thanks to the mayor of WBUR um I’m not sure about you but I’m still I’m old enough to remember the times when think globally act locally Wass a slogan that was very fashionable um we actually have something in mind that goes beyond that
Doesn’t it because we want to think act I mean all think globally because we are dedicated to sustainable go sustainability goals but we want to act locally and also connect the different localities that belong to our universities and so I think it was very good that we had both the president and
The mayor here at least representing the network that we are building upon in britsburgh next um I it is my honor to welcome Miss deia sento uh she will uh connect with us online live um she is the uh from the European commission the head of the higher education unit uh
Director general for Education Youth and Sport and culture and she is a perfect expert to provide us with insights from the European commission’s uh standpoint on how the European universities uh University alliances should influence and cooperate with societal stakeholders Miss de can you hear us is she already there yes oh okay yeah
Welcome can you hear us yes I can hear he you good morning everyone it’s a it’s a real pleasure to be with all of you so dear mayor rectors presidents Vice directors presidents academics children cities companies all involved in Chu and other European universities alliances it’s always a pleasure for me to participate
In the charm annual conference and to witness the great progress that is being made into transforming the way you teach the way you learn and do research as a flagship initiative of the European strategy for universities presented last year the European universities initiative is about transforming the hi G landscape in
Europe so you are leading the way towards the universities of the future promoting European values and identity and revolutionizing the quality competitiveness and attractiveness of European high education and this transformation performed by currently 50 European uses alliances across Europe has numerous impact on our societies and the
Potential to do even more in the future so let me mention few of them first the cont to Bringing talents to Regions and cities with the involvement currency of more than 430 high education institutions in 35 countries and next year we expect to have at least 60 alliances involving 500
High education institutions across all parts of Europe meaning not only in capitals but also in rural areas and our objective in the midterm is that 50% of the student body can benefit from exchanges between partners of alliances and Beyond so how do they do that well
If I take the example of chamu master’s degree in global challenges for sustainability it proposes a model that could Inspire many other high education institutions by engaging Mobility in the curriculum through a comprehensive Mobility Matrix with a hybrid design for students and academic staff Mobility I could also give the example of Unita
European University that promotes new forms of change Mobility including rural Mobility it offers internship opportunities to carry out in companies in municipalities of rural communities in Portugal Spain France Italy and Romania the program aims to create new synergies in education research and Innovation developing entrepreneurship and um producing a net
Positive impact on rural areas across Europe now the second point is that alliances develop skills that are relevant for society now and in the future and this includes green and digital skills for example for graduates but also for lifelong lears here again charm joint master’s degree in global challenges for sustainability offers students
Opportunities to acquire Advanced knowledge of sustainability by addressing Global challenges and working on the sustainable div goals in transdisciplinary and Intercultural team and that’s very important to prepare the graduates for the future jobs we don’t know all what the future jobs will look like but what we know that it’s
Important for students and future graduates to be able to work in this transdisciplinary and Trust maral I could give also the example of the otch microcredentials that allow to expand professional skill sets for graduates but also professionals supporting lifelong learning anding opportunities in various technical domains including artificial intelligence production engineering data
Science Leadership and Technology cyber security digital health for example The third point is that alliances are bringing Innovation to Regions cities and their social economic actors currently the 50 European alliances are working closely with 1,7 cities regions companies and we are very pleased to see that Chu contributes to that for example by organizing the water for future I
Where around the main them water City where then students have the opportunity to work across countries and disciplines together with cities and companies to imagine new innovative solutions I could check the example of that has six Innovation helps with the European industry Alliance and they have a hub in each of their
Member University on energy transport mobility and smart cities aging and wellbeing Etc and they are working with their regions and cities on addressing local challenges connected to their local needs around each part and consolidating The Innovation ecosystems the hubs are offering live Ling bees open
Classes um if I take the example of the artificial intelligence H they want to exploit the emergence of artificial intelligence Innovation such as machine learning deep learning Etc and they really encourage students to participate in business cooperation and to explore models of cooperation within artificial intelligence business ecosystem four the deeper transnational
Cooporation put in place by European uses Alles Foster the sharing and protection of common European values such as pic Freedom peace fostering a stronger European identity for example the circular new new city Alliance has created a knowledge Hub on democra Cy where they examine alarming Trends in parts of
Europe and elsewhere and where Democratic Values are under and they develop strategies to strengthen democracy and Civic engagement AC with all their students and and staff across the provs of the alliance last but not least alliances play also an active geopolitical Ro that has an impact for Society for example by
Taking an active Ro in supporting Ukraine to reshape its high education sector with more than 24 Ukrainian universities associated in 19 European universities alliances I could continue more and more but what I would like to tell you is that it’s no surprised that this initiative is at the core of the European commission
Priorities the European initiative is among the few ones to be mentioned the mission letter of our new commissioner Miss Siana ianov responsible for Education research and Innovation and in 2024 we have among the priorities of the commission of work program the further work that has been initiated by by European universties
Alliances when it comes to working towards a joint View degree with key building blocks such as building a Europe quants and recognition system and present an Initiative for more sustainable and attractive academic careers all this is absolutely essential to enable facilitate and support deeper transnational cooperation next year we will also
Present a report on the outcomes of the transformation potential of the Europe initiative as a building on the monitoring framework that we have C developed with the alliances in the member states this will consistent this will consist constitute an essential evidence base for funding of this initiative post
2027 indeed the commission aims to support the long-term engagement of these initia we already provide Erasmus Plus standing until 2028 2029 and now we have started working with the alliances with the member states on an investment pathway for this initiative Beyond 2028 and until 2024 our objective is to facilitate a
More comprehensive funding approach complementing the the educational Dimension is support across all alliances missions seeking for tangible synergies with national and Regional funding so you have embarked on an ambitious process and ambitious with its own challenges but with great enthusiasm and we are convinced that this initiative will force change in the
Sector for the benefit of Europe part LUN in this process you can count on the commission that will be a close cooperation partner and a stronger line so I look forward to the continued process and wish you all fateful and inspiring conference on how European universities are impacting Society thank
You thank you very much um Miss uh di Zant for your input um that will give us a lot of food for thought for the next sessions uh for discussion and we continue now in a good tradition of uh Alliance conferences because we will have a panel of uh participants from
Other alliances to share their experience with us and the session will be hosted by my colleague uh uh Jil subra from the University of M he’s himself also director for University of uh uh for chamu he’s also a professor of uh Pharmacy and the topic of the CH the
Session will be European universities and service to society conceptualizing the third mission of alliances uh we have agreed that I introduce him and that he introduces his panelists so thank you for that thank you very much uh first of all on behalf of all the colleagues coming
From all over the Europe I would like to thank you warmly for all the verburg team and the president of course for welcoming us uh in this uh in this University thank you very much um so it’s my pleasure to to share this uh this session in which we will discuss a
Very important Mission uh of the University that is service to society as you as you know of course uh University are are Train by Design are machines we are which are providing research and education for years they are designed to do that but maybe there is one other
Mission which is the service to society which is a little bit more tricky and and difficult to achieve correctly one of the main reason in my opinion is the fact that the needs and the expectation and the question raised by the society are are evolving so quick because the
World is changing very fast and uh the most of the need and expectation of the citizens are shareed within Europe by the citizen of Europe and that’s the reason why I think that the the European universities are a wonderful uh tool to discuss and to think about this service
To society hopefully I’m not alone on this uh stair to to to discuss about that and I’m very pleased to welcome four of of colleagues coming from all other the alliances of University Professor Ludovic TI who who is online normally he Vice um uh recor of the
University of puer in France is also the general coordinator of the ECU Alliance and is chair of the Executive Board of the coimbra group as well so Ludovic welcome I don’t know if you you can hear us yes and do you hear me yeah that’s perfect excellent we I I I’m very
Pleased also to welcome uh on on the on on the stair uh Professor Fidel aara uh you can join if if you want uh with um General coordinator of the C EU Alliance so it’s the European University Of The Seas and uh uh Professor aara is also the full professor of ecology at
The University of kadis so welcome uh I’m also pleased to welcome here Dr balach vincen Nagi who is chair of the Elisa Alliance executive board and is associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and economics and at least uh I would like to to welcome also uh my colleague Dr mariika
V who is a Chu academic director and is associate professor at University Copernicus Institute of sustainable development so please take a chair and uh I will leave without any I will leave the floor to to Ludovic maybe to start the the the session by by a presentation of what you achieve concerning this
Third mission of the of the University Ludovic the floor is yours thank you very much J and thank you to all the the colleagues from chiu for this invitation I I’m really sorry I can not be with you uh in presence and I would like as well
To apologize to the the panel colleagues because they they did the uh uh the travel but I was really not in capacity to to join you I’m very sorry and as you probably know already uh charmi U is a I would say a special Alliance to to
To me uh for for many reasons one of them being that actually it’s composed of many coimbra group member universities and uh being the chair of the coimbra group this is of particular importance to me but as well as you will see in my presentation uh the the the
Chiu Alliance is actually also very very close to the ec2 alliance uh I actually I meet uh quite often colleagues from Chu in different meetings in Europe and in particular I would like to to to say a quick hi to marel uh and we repeatedly say actually that tctu and Chu are
Sister alliances because we have so many in common and hopefully I will demonstrate that we have a lot in common I will not use slides uh but I will try hopefully to to demonstrate how the alliance has been like the chiu Alliance very very strongly committed to
This link with with Society maybe I could start by saying well the name of the alliance is is saying a lot already e2u is the acronym for European Campus of City universities which means that we are really putting at the very heart of our uh University of the future this
Idea that in particular when we have a midsize City uh where there is one or if not one a major university uh which is a long-standing university existing for centuries and has developed this synergetic uh approach with the municipality we have I would say no choice but to cooperate
Strongly with the municipality and the citizens and this is this concept which is at again at the very heart of the is Alliance and I know that as well there there is a lot in common with the the charm euu concept as well very quickly to remind you that the the partners of
The C Alliance uh we started with seven universities uh the coordination uh is in University of puer in France we have also the University of coimbra in Portugal University of salanka in Spain Spain pava in Italy yena in Germany Yash in Romania turu in Finland and as you can see these first
Seven universities are all coimbra group so that’s uh also something in common with the U Alliance uh since less than a week now we have started our new funding period uh what we call the consolidation period and we have welcomed the new University which is the Johannes Kepler University of
Lind in Austria not a kumra group University and we will soon have a ninth uh University joining us uh so these are let’s say the full Partners as we as we usually say but we have uh uh about 30 Associated partners and in the new funding period we will have 60 uh and
During the from the beginning we have actually the municipalities on board and this will be uh the the sort of U guiding line of of my presentation today um we have also in the new period some very large scale International Private Industry private companies but I
Will not focus too much yet on this aspect um like charmi U we are also sdg based we have decided to focus on three sdgs during the pilot phase the number three good health and wellbeing the number four quality education and the number 11 sustainable cities and communities of course link is very
Natural and uh for the new funding period we have a new sdg in addition which is the sdg16 pce justice and strong institutions and as you can imagine it is particularly relevant in the current current International and European context among the different results we have uh created what we call the is
Virtual institutes which are sort of Laboratories Without Walls which are uh spread over the whole uh pan European campus and in this context this virtual Institute one for each of the sdg they are gathering uh teams of teachers researchers innovators students around the so-called sdgs um in particular we
Have opened uh three uh sdg based master program and that’s again another communal commonality with chiu uh in our case it’s uh one master program per sdg the first three ones and we will soon open a new master program on the sdg16 peace Justice and strong institutions so that’s let’s say
The education part of the virtual Institute the uh rni part and the link with Society is related as well to the research and we have a lot of research project and I will mention a few ones uh in a minute uh related with this link to the municipalities actually coming to this
Link with municipalities I would like to exemplify this very strong Synergy that we have created with the municipalities um maybe some of you uh could follow online or maybe were even present at the Forum of the alliances in Barcelona uh two months ago somehow uh and actually in the plenary session
Where there were uh representatives from the society uh we were actually very pleased to see that the representative from the University of coimbra was invited by the Spanish president residency and they U they showed actually how ectu is promoting this link with municipality so it seems to be now
Quite recognized added value that we have brought with this uh e Alliance so maybe starting by by the fact that um the municipalities which are all Associated Partners they are present at all the ectu events in particular we have a forum every six months that was
Organized at each uh the the the member universities and they were always present present because they are part of the governance they are in the so-called plary Council where they have each representative and this really led to a constant dialogue with them and to concrete actions um for instance we have
Developed with the municipalities what we call the E2 think tanks that was one each year uh on a given topic and the idea was to create locally some groups of people from from Academia from the city from the citizens uh ecosystem on different topics and for instance the
The last one was on social innovation in times of Crisis and the municipalities have been uh in particularly instrumental in the capacity to also invite citizens to participate to these dialogues with Academia so I said they are part of the governance but they’re also part of the virtual institutes and
For instance the virtual instit Institute for good health and well-being has worked during three years to make an analysis at all the local municipalities on what are the uh good practices related to the uh promotion of Public Health and good health and from that we uh the virtual Institute has derived
Some um guidelines for public health and these guidelines are currently presented at all the city councils and they will be included in the local regulation to promote good health with the the the local citizens so this has really a direct impact uh on the on the the the
Cities development uh the the virtual Institute related to uh sustainable cities and communities has also developed uh a research project on how to identify the um the conditions that lead to the development of heat Highlands uh during the the heat waves in particular in Europe and this led to
Also guidelines to propose to the cities to develop some practices to reduce the impact of these heat uh Highlands this is for instance related to putting more green areas to develop also practices in the way the Urban Development uh is uh is put forward so really there are again
A concrete impact on the local uh ecosystem another very uh successful uh activity with the with the municipalities was what we call the city challenges where um a given City would give a ground to some students so they travel to another U municipality but only using soft Mobility Transportation
So bus train uh bicycle if they wish uh and this was actually very popular and we had already three editions one which was uh the the transportation between p and coimbra puer and salanka and pentier and pava as you can probably here this was an initial idea from the P
Municipality but we will see now more and more of these challenges to use uh soft Transportation which is of course so important in the the concept of sustainable development but maybe another um collateral effect which we had not anticipated but we are very proud of is that the cities have decided Now to
Create their own network or their own Alliance and they are developing now of course always in connection with the c2u but they are developing their own project and they have been actually already uh awarded several EU project which I have to to remind usually cities and other stakeholders are not so big
Fans or or going into EU project because they are always afraid that this would be complicated Etc but this time they decided to to to make the step forward and they have been uh two years ago awarded a project on cultural cities twinning which has been very successful
And they have recently applied to an interreg European project on digital cultural heritage so they are actually uh really putting forward this cooperation using the expertise the scientific expertise of the C Alliance typically indeed we have this master program on Intercultural understanding so this is what led the the cultural
Cities twinning project and the one on cultural heritage and digitalization is also based on the expertise from the universities so you see that it’s really what we uh this is really the best we could anticipate that they are now decided they’ve now decided to have
Their own Alliance if I may say but of course they uh when we contacted them to um to to to know if they were willing to continue this challenge this endeavor with us for the new funding period they immediately responded positively and they they are again Associated partner
During the next period so these are just a few examples to show that it’s really possible to work uh at the level of an alliance with also a network of municipalities thank you very much for your [Applause] attention thank thank you very thank you very much
Lovic uh we we’re going to take a question after the the four speakers so I will leave the floor to Professor Fidel aaria I go there yeah thanks to to the organizers mainly marelle Chavez and and all the people organizing this interesting event so I am the the coordinator of another
Alliance also selected in the first call in in 2019 19 it is the European University Of The Seas and the acronym in our case is cu so I can pass it with it okay doesn’t work yes can I okay yeah as I said it we started in in
In 2019 for three years in the first stage and now in January this year we have begun this second stage of our of our alliance so um the the CU includes nine universities we were six in the first stage cadth as coordinator in the south of Spain breast kill in Germany
The it is Christian Al University of kill and Dansk in Poland split in Croatia Malta and then the three new universities that has been integrated in the second phase Algarve in Portugal um n in in Norway and Naples partenope in Italy these are the nine universities all of them as you see Coastal
Universities and with the Mari and Maritime aspects as important uh flags of of the our activity well the the objectives of our alliance are 10 are very huge we are attending a lot of different aspects but concerning the the the session today I focus on the objective eight strengthen the link with
Society and nine strengthen the link with the stakeholders so I will try to well we are nine universities but also 75 Associated part a big number of associated Partners which includes uh well reset centers NOS companies and so on including also one University as external partner it is the W Mar time
University which is very focused on Maritime aspects and working mainly with the developing countries and also we are in now trying to incorporate the University of Odessa uh Ukraine as Associated partner also we are it is submitted to the to the commission and we are waiting the the
Result well the the one important point in our structure of governance is that the former stakeholders group we had during the first three years has been split in four councils including a cities Council so we have now a platform in which all the municipalities are together and this
The common problems they have also we have a port Council in which the Port Authorities the haros in our cities are also working together and a students Council ER and finally an stakeholders group as such with research centers and companies mainly and well this is the the we call
The co-creation level in our structure of governance well here are some examples of the the the the the things we are dealing with in these committees these are the the agendas for the meeting a similar meeting we are going to have in Split at the end of this month it’s an
Annual event also in our case and the agendas of these three committees includes uh aspects as you can see there a workshop on attractive cities for students or uh in it is difficult for me to so far to about CU internships or about CU City twinning to to make TW in
Between the cities in in our alliance in the case of the ports Council also there are several uh points as well Cris management expertise special economic zones in the in the harbor where are where are we have in our cities and finally in the in the stakeholders Council cooperation
Between City Port and stakeholders proposal of a stakeholders group opportunities flyer they are producing one flyer with the these opportunities and well they are debating about the the connection with the with the alliance also we have this structure in which we have identified nine sematic areas and
One Vice rectors belonging to one of the nine universities is in charge of each areas so you you can see there the distribution of responsibilities within our alliance and in the case of stakeholders which is probably the most important in the context of this session we have the vice director of K Professor
Ralph s nether as the vice recor for stakeholders in our in our alliance and going to the work plan of course we are in the three missions we have a work package about Education and Training another one on research and and Innovation but the most important here probably is word package five about
Bringing Bridging the Gap with Society uh together with two transversal uh War packages on governance and on dissemination going to the war package five in which we have this uh this activities connecting to the society the three tasks and the main outputs and and activities to be done within these tasks
In the case of uh task 5.1 we are preparing a CU Congress for next January in in Portugal in Algarve which is a well the Congress the the title is a strong partnership to face challenges and Achieve sustainable development goals we are we are in we are inviting more than 90 universities
Outside Europe belonging to Africa South America also North America and all together with our stakeholders we are trying to well to sign a a Gateway declaration during this Congress in in Portugal also in 5.2 the main aspects are these two observatories we have launched one on what we call sustainable
Blue economy it is the the terminology that previously was the blue growth and now we prefer to change it in in blue economy and and also not obervatory on migration and human rights so the the the first one the first Observatory is connected with with one Bachelor we are
Working to to to to to put it on on the table a bachelor in sustainable blue economy we are trying to do this joint program in our alliance together with another three joint programs we are working now and finally in the task 5.3 which is on transforming CU service
Learning that we had in the previous phase into the CU we call Society Hub probably this is the most related with the with the session today so uh we we’ve produced in the first stage of our alliance this document the community engaged University putting together some examples and and basic principles in
This service Le learning and and now we want to jump uh to this uh service to society and we will have we had a a a first meeting in Split last year and now we are preparing a meeting in cadth for next April so next year 2024 with the
Topics you can see in the in the slide so going to some results in our work with the stakeholders it is very important the work done in two projects which are connected with our alliance we we speak about nested projects one is C do which is a project also an Erasmus
Plus project with the main objective of matching doctorate students skills with the needs of the of the companies and uh well we we produced some some results about for example three training events and about Career Development entrepreneurship skills and and so on and also we have This research U it is a
Sfts project you have the same in in your your alliance in in charm you and several results of this project has a lot of uh well uh importance I think in in the context of this meeting for example we produces this book strategies of stakeholder engagement uh with a mapping and
Analysis of approaches and strategies within the the the Alliance and also we have uh launched a lot of other initiative about Civic engagement Marketplace tools innovate hubs transformation Labs uh citizen science we have done several activities in in this open science and CU Academy and and so on also for example this spin-off
Competence lab which included a lot several uh webinars about different aspects including for example intellectual property rights and and so on and also these science chops which are which are also webinars about this idea of of science science chops we have produces these five webinars and other links with Society including
Inclusion uh gender violence multiculturalism multilingualism and European identities several of the activities we have done in this uh links with Society also we are working actively with this uh Ukrainian University in Odessa we have signed this memorandum of understanding and we are waiting our proposal of becoming this University as Associated partner one
Example final example of our activity is this oceanographic cruise that we did last year on board this vessel belonging to the University of dank and it was a cruise from Dan to cadth in which we attended the three missions a scientific activity of course also training for master students and
Doctorate students and finally dissemination in this third mission with exhibition and divulgation uh at the ports where the the the vessel was arriving now we are organizing a second one from Dan to to Bodo in in Norway and in 2025 a third one in the Mediterranean well and finally H our
Strategy of communication uh has segmented audience you can see it in our web page which is dedicated some some part the different audiences also we have an opportunities browser in our web page also segmented to the different audiences and in our CU newsletter which is every 3 months and you can subscribe
To to it uh selecting the the the well the SE the segment in which you are more interested so that’s all thank you thank you thank you very much uh I will leave now now the floor to the to the next speaker Dr balach Vin Nagi H the video will see good
Morning one two 3 it’s working okay okay so good morning everyone it’s a great pleasure to be here um and you know in our alliance we are Elisa I will explain what that is but we always talk about external stakeholders and this is the first time I really understood what
Is an external stakeholder because now I am the external stakeholder and it’s really a pleasure because you know it comes with different honors I got two badges don’t be jealous just for external stakeholders and the other thing is that I don’t know many of you in this room which gave me the benefit
To stand at the door and look at all of you how you work how you are buzzing and it for me it was exactly the same like I was in my own Alliance so it was like meeting remating friends hugging each other talking about our stuff and
Working together and have a lot of Engagement with each other and I I thought it that well um if vanessa was looking at that that is what the EU wants and I think this is what we want this is how is the survival of the European universities for the future to
Have this community to work together to talk together frequently and and understand each other yeah there are a lot of challenges we know that we have to accredit our courses in our own countries and so on and this is always a big fuss some countries do this way some
The other way so I will explain you a bit how we are trying to do these things at the European engineering education learning Innovation and science Alliance trying to cover all of that but as you see we are rooted very heavily in engineering itself we understood that that’s not
Everything of course and how we are trying to deal with the issues of society there’s one thing I should remind myself quite often that we as academics we are part of society we just tend to forget it some sometimes and there is this uh comparison with The Lighthouse effect
You might have heard of I hate this because I’m an optical engineer and I work with light and light should give a beacon it should give guidance so the lighthouse effect is a totally different thing it’s some kind of isolation from it’s more like a tower effect that isolates you from the rest
Of society no we are integral part of it and we have to remind ourselves on that so how Elisa evolves on that mission let me show you a short video they told me it’s working so we’re going to try but it’s not right click play can you right click on
It I will show you anyway don’t worry first case we go to YouTube you go to YouTube and I keep talking sure just go for the Ala video okay my colleague will help on that so I will tell you the story behind afterwards but I will give you a short
Introduction of how Elisa was born it’s also a very long-term project I we had this collaboration of different universities getting together to do short courses in the last couple of decades and when we saw that there is a bigger intention from the European commission to get us together and create
Our joint work uh we were happy to jump on this boat train we don’t have too many C universities and uh start work things together I think it’s going to work so mostly we are engineering universities I will skip that slide afterwards um some of them are poly
Technic a pure engineer universities my university is from Budapest from Hungary uh we are also dealing with economics Neal Natural Sciences a bit of psychology but NE necessar a little bit of humanity only there is the Istanbul technical universities who works with with a core with music education but we
Have comprehensive universities as well for example the one from Germany from newbank Elan that works with medical aspects and also Humanities too so we understood that engineering is not a single discipline it has to be interdisciplinary but how this can serve Society specifically we believe in a bottomup approach and the bottomup does
It work this one okay just second so the bottomup approach means that academics researchers and most importantly students get together and form specific area of communities and these communities have to be related with the societal challenges as they are defined by the UN and we can think about a little bit
Beyond of that because un thinks until 2030 we would want to want we won’t want our alliance to last much more longer than that so we are trying to disc cover the new challenges of the future solving the challenges of today and one of the biggest challenge what we see especially
In engineering education is how to teach our students for the future skill set and this is not trivial we know the different reports how many jobs will be eradicated in the next decade because of the technological advances so we have to set our students on a mission that they
Understand first of all that there is the concept of lifelong learning that they have to keep re-educating themselves through worldwide and throughout their uh life career but also today we have to give so strong fundamentals to them that can be built upon so the micr credential concept we
Al of course we also incorporate in our mission can be only used once there is a very strong basis of in case of engineerings mathematics physics chemistry basic engineering mindset for example so I will show you now the video I hope it’s going to work now with the
Sound what the Elisa mission is trying to be sound okay I will have to narrate it no well it’s about a little girl today not me uh who is Laura we have the subtitles that’s great e so Laura wants to be a scientist she’s dreaming on that she wants to deal with the
Challenges of society today and what she understands about it that she has to go to university and she has to transform the university together with the people of the University so we believe in co-creation of knowledge especially in the postgraduate level but also at the undergrad level that we have
To co learn and co-create together with our students it’s much nicer with the music by the way and understand that the society has to be created together so the formal type of education as we knew it a couple of decades ago is already fading away and today education should be a common
Place working with each other and the students are very important part of it so I used to hold lectures like this size of rooms I never give a lecture like this talking we always give lectures going around talking together with the students trying to understand what they understand from what I’m
Trying to give them asking for their opinion of course they are very fast now nowadays they have their cell phone in front of them and they challenge me all the time that sorry Professor but you said that wrong YouTube says different or Wikipedia I love that because when they
Do the presentation I do the same check my own but that’s how it works that’s how you keep a mind working and if you work in Psychology I had the chance I’m a simple mechanical engineer but I had the chance to spend seven years as a researcher in a psychology Institute so
I understand a bit how the mindset works and it has to be active for learning but this is one part of it sorry for the video um I will keep on with the uh with a presentation but the idea is this we should show the generations how
Important it is to get an get to be an integral part of higher education and create together the future of learning and the future of existence so here is the main uh mission of Elisa so we are trying uh to be an integral part of society trying to look at the screens here
Then we gave our name from Eliza zesu the first engineer woman given the degree of engineer and we have the key values shown in the slides obviously they are very well matching the values of uh the European universities we are quite big but you are also very big so there is no
Competition on that uh what is important to say here that with this strength of such a big population of academics researchers and specialist students we are able to create groups on topical areas and this is what I will focus in the next slide so we are creating
Communities I will give you a couple of examples but if you go to our website you will see that we are reaching approximately 50 uh communities on different topics ranging for artificial intelligence for manufacturing to Green cities to one of my own communities which is dealing with technology
Diplomacy for example so this is the bottomup approach that I mentioned to you uh we are created we have created as a result of our first phase we just initiated our second phase a couple of days ago we created the recognition system of studies but they don’t have to
Be formal studies only it can be informal and uh out of University type of studies as well so we give credentials which is a type of certificate as micr credentials for specific activities especially in communities we give diploma supplements and we have our joint degrees and this
Is one of the benefits I will also talk about and last but not least we do have our research pillar and we think that this can be even more strengthened by the commission by the way because research is a key element of University activities and we had the Horizon 2020 we are still
Running that for a couple of month but we would be happy to have much more research opportunities specifically for European University alliances uh in Europe we do have a couple of projects on that uh dealing with pure research where we map our research capacities and form research communities output from
Such is double first of all further applications for proposals so getting more funding and getting more opportunities to develop the research but also outputs for the market in the terms of Market we mean spin-offs big companies as one key partners and they are also part of society by the way and
Entrepreneurship so entrepreneurship is some demand that the students want us to teach them today not only that how to design a new product but how to manage the whole life cycle of the product since its idea and creation until the end until it’s recycling so it has to be
A clear concept that’s an expertise that we need to teach special projects are that so we believe in cycles and this is the Elisa community Community cycle that starts from the mission and going through the challenges uh the activities and going back to evaluation that has its feedback uh to
The mission and each community and this is important to mention is related to one or more of the sustainable development goals and once we give a credential which is the certificate I was mentioning we explicitly State what is the depth which of which is the sdg that the community dealt with and what
Is the depth the student the academic or the participant uh was getting into in relation to that sdg two examples I show you quickly this is one of the communities called Alisa on the Move dealing with smart and sustainable cities so it’s about the transportation system that we know very
Well how heavily challenging it is maybe not in birdsburg that much but uh in huge cities definitely but it’s getting to be everywhere so Elis on the move is a community made of students authorities municipalities academics researchers and companies to try to find solutions for for smart Transportation smart and Green Transportation
Systems another one this is a a thing tank for the ISA for the European space space agency which has one of the big research centers close to Madrid in Spain uh this community is redesigning uh the ISA Hub there from the architectural point of view from the
Management point of view helping Isa to have a modern structure for their uh development systems there Isa is a key feature of Europe it’s getting stronger and stronger for our benefits so we try we are trying to keep an eye on that and help them as much as we can
I was mentioning the Alisa credentials uh we designed it it into five levels levels of knowledge or or engagement let’s say that way the fifth level the more deep level the most deeper level is about transformation when the participant of the special activity uh is really able to transform in the area
Of that community and there are also the different initiation levels and intermediate levels I think I will share this presentation don’t worry so in the certificate you may see that Circle it shows even this one no wor okay it doesn’t work on that but you seen that
Circles the circle of the sdgs and you see a specific color inwards that shows which sdg is addressed in that special Topic in that community and what is the depth on it so once this has to be uh this is going to be widespread the students or the ones having this
Credential uh can show it uh which topic they have learned about and they are engaged with so we have the European engineering profile I think that’s a bit more unique uh when we compare uh the different University alliances uh we are deeply rooted in engineering as I said in the
Beginning so we redesigned the European engineer we want the European engineer to be credited at least within Europe in any country and having no difficulty to work on any European challenges wherever uh they go and a very important part is the interdisciplinarity or transdisciplinarity you name it I’m almost finished um I’m almost
Finished but I got a error message sorry so this is my last slide since I said we just embarked uh in our uh second Journey with the Elisa Alliance we have a common Mission our motto is Building Bridges and bridging boundaries this means that we want to be a truly European
Concept independent of the turmoils of today’s uh political scene and all kinds of challenges the society faces instead we want to to be a fully integral Alliance and in service of our own Society but striving for excellence in Europe so thank you for your patience thank you very much we move to
The last speaker so we can welcome Marik VGA all right um thank you um my main presentation will be about the Capstone um and some of you will have heard this story before but I will also talk around it and what it actually signifies because it signifies something more than
Just the final pH of the Masters um my name is May I’m associate professor at UT University and also academic director and I’ve been involved in the masters from 2020 so also have been been working on the design of the uh Masters um and mainly the last phase the Capstone phase
Um so this is most of you know this by heart um the structure of the master’s program um we now have the third cohort running uh each year we have about 60 students um in five universities and it’s all about hybrid education so students follow the same program in the five
Universities um much of it is uh challenge-based learning and this is not entirely new so many universities are actually doing it but what is the unique thing is that it’s in five universities so you have this sort of Glo think Global act local um where you can have
Have really local challenges that you work on and together with stakeholders in the region of the universities um but also that it’s um also fully integrated into the entire Masters including in the final uh phase which also comes with its own challenges as I will uh speak to
Later um so it’s basically the Final Phase it’s six months uh each year we have about 13 teams um of 60 students so we have 13 stakeholders working together with students on specific challenges uh so each year we have a call worldwide basically for any stakeholder who wants
To submit a challenge we have a number of criteria it should be linked to the sustainable development goals um it shouldn’t be only for profit for example um so we do have some selection criteria and we also talk to the stakeholders to ensure that they are up for the job
Basically um we had uh challenges in in Europe but also in Africa so we had last year um one in Sagal and one in South Africa this year also there is a team in South Africa um and the outcomes are um not just the joint learning um for the
Students as well um but also with the stakeholders um it’s CrossCountry analysis and reports also um but it’s also very much uh focused on societal impact so students will eventually generate a product that is also useful for uh the stakeholder um I won’t go into too much detail on the specific challenges this
Is an overview of the challenges from last year um we had various challenges from un agencies to local noos companies government agencies uh so there’s a wide variety um this year these are some of the lists from this year we have the unccd for example convention to combat Des
Desertification uh last year they had a very interesting challenge in Sagal where they looked at small um food forests and how they can contribute to reducing desertification in Sagal which also contributed to the great green wall some of you might have heard of it um and they produced a un policy brief also
With their findings um we also have um some very local challenges in uh UB for example which is an agro for an agro per Urban farming system um and they were so enthusiastic that they actually wanted to host two uh challenges is very related to one another so you can also
Then exchange ideas and um the students can work together uh in comparative analysis as well um this year we also have WWF um also one very small company actually which requested help in uh identifying how they can reduce their environmental footprint so it can be also very small companies that then want
Very specific guidelines on how to actually um uh move forward in sustainability um in terms of stakeholder involvement um stakeholders are the ones who submit the challenge but eventually it’s the students who make it their own of course so they collaborate with the students we ask
Like a meeting once a month at least um and we also check whether there’s capacity among the stakeholders um they can assist students in the communication and Outreach um but also they provide assessments on for example for their presentation of the final Capstone product um or in terms of how they have
Communicated with the stakeholder throughout because uh program learning outcomes also include communication and transition nity um so it can also be through sort of collaborative meetings that students are assessed on their um quality of of collaboration um some of the stakeholders are also involved in workshops lectures um or they can invite
Students for events and work work shops um so some of the Capstone products just to show you some examples what can it mean it can be quite academic but it can also be quite uh focused on more professional skills and output uh so it can be policy briefs it can be academic
Reports um campaigns software products um I’ll just show you a couple of examples from last year um this was together with the UN Global compact which actually supports um businesses around the world in how to Foster sustainability within their uh uh companies um and they were looking at
How do companies actually report on their sustainability because a lot of companies are doing stuff on sustainability build have difficulties on how to report how to monitor so this was a module for professionals that they developed to uh offer to uh companies around the world to Foster sustainability and especially in the
Sdgs that are often sort of Left Behind and that are less obvious everyone knows how to measure carbon these days but um how to measure your footprint on for example the oceans um this one was a very local one in ut where uh students um developed a
Game app so a a sort of game that you can download on your smartphone and then you can have a sort of play a sort of game to go to the uh local farms and local Gardens um and then to sort of walk around and then do some assignments
And uh answer some questions and this was also a way to involve citizens more in the sort of urban farming systems and to get them make them aware of uh the the farming uh that was done that is done in the city of region of city of UT
Um this was one um in Botswana uh on micro financing um where they also developed software to match funding agencies with small holder Farmers um and they also presented that at an intergovermental conference um in Africa uh this one is a very interesting one and also close to my heart because I
Was in South Africa uh lately um also presenting this one to the um Dutch Ministry of Education um so there’s a number of students uh one student team in uh Krueger national park at the moment looking at you human Wildlife conflicts um and this was actually submitted by the University of
Prioria um and it’s part of a research project that they are already running so they engage students in their research there um and we have also uh uh explored how to further collaborate with the University of Petoria and with other universities in South Africa to see how
Can we offer this also to South African students because at the moment it’s just Chu students going to South Africa um the students themselves found it a bit challenging and a bit sort of well tricky colonialism they also had some uh criticism uh but it was also very good
To reflect for them on their positionality um and the University of Petoria is also keen on looking at how can we further expand this um not just hosting uh six students each year but also offer it for South African students and also um use it as something to
Leverage something bigger so to gain experience in challenge based learning um but also in the transdisciplinary approach uh because this concerns a local very local research station a sort of satellite campus uh by the University of ptor in uh Kruger National Park and at the moment it’s just focused on uh
It’s actually done by the veterinary uh medicine faculty so it’s very focused on veterinary medicine but they’re also keen on exploring how can you build build it into something bigger that can then bring science and Education and Training to uh communities in Kruger National Park and then also directly
Sort of collect challenges from the ground and uh work on that with researchers also who regularly visit that research station um this session was also about um not just showing success but also what kind of experiences do we have and what kind of challenges are we facing um
And I’m happy that it’s uh now seen also by many as a success but it was also very challenging um so one of the things that we found challenging is also how to cefine challenges stakeholders and students eventually number one priority is to offer good education to the
Students but then of course you also want to combine it with societal impact and sometimes stakeholders have a bit of a high expectations on what students can deliver and that cannot always be met so how do you then sort of Define that um intellectual property rights might be an
Issue um we want to have it everything Open Access so we should be very Fred about that so some companies might not be interested because then they share everything that um they own basically um we currently have a second Capstone um cohort running uh and we now have an initiated sort of voluntary
Agreements between the students and the stakeholders because last year we felt that students were missing that and students were asking for it but we can’t provide legal contracts to the stakeholders that would make it too sort of administratively conversome so now we have sort of voluntary agreements at least statement of interests and
Commitment uh which can help to sort of uh manage expectations um we were dealing of course with very different proced procedures regulations Norms in the five universities um and at some point it was also really sort of challenging to ensure what is actually um enough to graduate basically what what is what are
The standards and no one had done this before this kind of challenge-based collaborative thesis um that um uh qualify students for graduation so how do you actually Define the requirements that was a challenge um so we were sort of Designing it as we went assessments are a very CH very
Challenging aspect because you want to balance academic and professional skills uh and it’s team based so how do you then assess individuals uh so we fully updated also the assessment plan where initially we had lots of assessment in the final report um academic but then also non-academic skills in terms of
Transcity and communication but but now we took some of that out and um initiated different types of Assessments such as meetings where supervisors join students in their discussion and then they can on the go sort of assess what is their communication skills and how do they um relate to the stakeholder for
Example how do they take their interests on board so then you don’t have just sort of conventional reports that uh supervisors are used to but also other types of real life assessment and of course that also comes with more sort of Demand on supervisors so supervisors also need to know how to
Assess that um and it’s it is more work so supervisors are quite involved in in the team uh in supervising them um but also they need to sort of manage the expectations and uh engage with the stakeholders so it’s pretty time and resource intensive um and we’re also
Looking at how can you actually increase efficiency in this type and of course the first part was really sort of uh very time incentive because you also were still designing it and that sort of it at the moment it runs pretty smoothly um but it’s still sort of a challenge in
General I think in challenge-based um education and uh stakeholder engagement also because you have multiple objectives for transis Education um just a final slide on how do we actually bring this to something bigger um because it was also the joint degree Masters was meant as a sort of
Pilot uh to test and to develop educational Innovations um including such things as programmatic assessment where you look at the continuous development of skills in students and academic as well as professional skills and how do you measure those um but we’re also expanding and strengthening our non-academic stakeholder Network um
Develop modalities for education for professionals so we’re looking into how can we actually engage stakeholders even further in for example joint training sessions where they can join some of the workshops and some of the challenge-based education and they can also um get training on the on the job
Basically um we’re also looking at how to Foster links between Education and Research uh so we have had some success linked research hubs where students were joining in research projects in the different universities and then you can sort of connect those to gather more higher level
Insights uh we are also working on a maruri joint doctorate where we are drawing on the experiences from the Capstone and especially the stakeholder engagement um and then students the idea is that students work in teams together with stakeholders on very transdisciplinary research um um which
Then also brings about not just a PhD thesis but also a sort of societal product and so that is sort of further gaining experience with that type of transdisciplinary research um and we’re also looking at it from a sort of more critical social science perspective ber
F Bri is involved in that as well from a more philosophical perspective of what does it actually mean to engage stakeholders in the research and how do you balance the different interests in yes addressing societal challenges but then also having that sort of uh high quality research and sometimes I also
Have experien with that is very difficult to balance where stakeholders might have different perceptions on scientific Integrity than uh scientists have um I already mentioned the uh Exploration with the collaboration with the global South where we are looking into how to sort of offer the Capstone as a separate module also for others
Outside Europe so that you can have that Global South perspective as well um and a final one the challenge-based learning platform we were discussing that yesterday as part of the work package 15 of charm 8 um where we’re looking at how can we build this into something bigger
Where we have Regional networks of each of the universities with transis Mar Education and Research but then connect them in a way that stakeholders can also learn learn from each other and that’s what they were also asking for in the Gap Stone how can we actually engage
Even further to learn from each other um so yeah big plans um and this challenge based platform will also offer the opportunity for stakeholders to submit challenges not just for the Capstone which we are already doing but also for other types of research other types of Education that is already offered in
Each of the partners universities um so yeah more to follow but I’m happy to have a discussion now thanks thank you very much Mara thank you also to the three other speakers who give very interesting Insight on what they did they achieve within the alliances so now that it’s time for
Discussion maybe I’m going to start with a open question I was wondering uh how concretely uh you you you do the collection of the needs and the question of the society how do you probe the society so I’ve heard about think tanks uh I’ve heard about uh um uh meetings focused on
Sdgs but also the system of having challenge driven by students that can be applied to to needs for society but my question is how to collect those needs for me okay in in our case um I think this co-creation process in which we are working with the the different councils
I I showed you before this cities in one part meeting all together the ports or the stakeholders this is a good uh platform to receive the the different uh initiatives and question s and well so we are attending a lot this this levels of uh of um co-creation from these important
Stakeholders in our in our case so I don’t know if this is answering your your question okay um yeah I already talked about how we sort of have a a call basically a worldwide call to collect challenges from stakeholders so um it’s it’s working and we have had like
33 challenges each year for example um we don’t want to upgrade that because then it would be difficult to make that selection um but I think and and in the Capstone it’s very clear what is the objective and what is the sort of timeline um once we upgrade that to like
A challenge based platform I think we also have to think about what challenges can we also um well accommodate basically so then you have to think about that sort of match between demand and and the uh what we can offer actually because then it can be pretty Broad in terms of any research
Project or um any type of education so there I think then it it becomes more challenging but so far we’ve had um yeah no no difficulties in sort of collecting the challenges and making sure that the criteria are there in terms of the sustainability and that somehow linked
To sustain able development goals um but you might run into challenges once um maybe big companies that are not always very uh uh clean might um submit some challenges and we’ve had last year also a team saying that the stakeholder had very different ideas about sustainability than they had and they
Also perceived that a bit as sort of greenwashing so you also have to see how do you how do you cope with that and then what is the role of the stakeholder in also assessing it and what is the role of the supervisor in mediating those sort of different ideas and
Views I think that’s a great question how we collect the challenges we don’t collect the challenges we create the interfaces that the challenges find us so what I see that throughout our communities that we already work together with all kind of once again stakeholders of society and we do have our strategic
Partners we receive more challenges than we can handle so it’s really up to us to professionally and uh with a certain Excellence Target the different challenges and try to focus on some of them so I I feel that it’s much more important to create and maintain those interfaces for constant dialogue with
The different members of of of society and of all the partners around us and uh just one more thing many challenges uh they find us internally uh we are very much open for challenges raised by students from their everyday life from their uh part-time work from their uh research interest and
Uh a couple of our communities they were born on challenges that the students were bringing up for us so in my conclusion if we are well Incorporated in society the challenges will find us L you you mention you talk about uh the uh the interaction with the municipality
For example could could you explain us how how uh how do you do you collect the needs coming from those type of stakeholders um well actually I think that the previous colleague have has said a very important uh keyword which is the interface um if we provide uh a space
And and actually there are probably several ways to organize these interfaces but if we have the right interface where this constant dialogue is possible uh actually indeed the challenges quite rapidly come to us um and in our case we have let’s say several uh types of interface the one
That we have initially started in the uh Erasmus uh project of the alliance where those virtual Institute as I mentioned because there by definition they are built with a very strong connection with the local ecosystem including the the municipalities but also we have the the the local ecosystem of all the
Socioeconomic World um and actually the researchers the teams that are working each of these virtual institutes are connected with the local ecosystem so this dialogue actually uh makes it quite natural that some challenges come up very rapidly I was mentioning for instance this issue regarding how to promote uh Health in the public
Environment this was actually quite natural naturally very rapidly on the table with the municipalities because they are um uh basically having these challenges so so some surveys have been developed for that particular case where the municipalities were actually surveyed on what were the the the most pressing challenges they had with public
Health and what came very rapidly is actually uh the the the Aging because the population in Europe is aging uh a lot uh and also all the associated consequences with the coid 19 because we were just in the uh direct uh followup consequences of this pandemic um the Sy
Tanks uh are another type of interface where we can not necessarily start with a very clear topic or it can be a quite General topic and actually discussing with all the stakeholders rapidly we see actually some topics uh uh really uh popping out and and then they can be
Discussed in the virtual institutes I wanted also to mention that as I was probably too brief in my in my first presentation that we we also have a sfts project which in our case is called research and Innovation for cities and citizens so again we see this connection
With the the society um and in this we had a work package which was called actually The Innovation sphere uh in which we have actually uh designed a space that we call the lighthouse for Innovation which is also a virtual space where we have connected with all the local stakeholders related to innovation
In connection with the sdgs and again it is about this platform that we can create where uh we you need first to build trust with the stakeholders because they may indeed be interested initially in in engaging with you but they are not sure if you can really
Bring them what they need so you first first there is a whole period of mutual learning Mutual understanding on um what can be brought by each of the partners on the virtual table and once this first critical step has been uh has been uh reached then you can really openly
Discuss with them what are the issues what are the challenges you face and how can we help you and vice versa they can also help us uh for some other types of challenges so I think probably the key word here is really to to to provide the right interface indeed the right
Platform and to create this uh trust uh which is needed to really put everything on the table and I must say that and this will be my final comment here sorry to be long with the municipalities we had already gone through this first step of mutual learning and Trust because all the ectu
Municipalities were actually signatory of what we have called in the kimra group the P declaration which is a sort of a a framework where universities and municipalities have mutual interest in developing common policies and I know that actually in the chu uh uh Partners some have also signed this pu
Declaration which is about fostering uh Mutual policy and mutual understanding between the cities and municipalities thank you very much I would like to to discuss a little bit about the the sentence Global thinking local impact and I was wondering in your opinion what is the add value of an
Alliance uh to talk with the uh the society and the stakeholders compare to the direct interaction of a local University dealing with the local authorities publics and so on so it joined the last comment of what you what you said uh Ludovic um I can comment on this and we have
Been um thinking about this also um because we were submitting uh the Masters for a Dutch education award so then of course it needs to be also beneficial to the Netherland then it’s not just European I’m always thinking European or Global um but then in this
Case we were like well what what about sustainability challenge that the Netherland is facing for example I mean those are not just local National but they are Global and so there’s also that side of EU regulation for example but also Global markets um that yeah anything is connected to any local
Challenge that you face is also has a global or european component and so that that is the added benefit I think and also to sort of foster that learning from like very local challenges are often quite similar across Europe or across the world and so then you can also Foster Collaborative Learning of
How how are these challenges dealt with in different countries around the world so that comparative element can be done brought in when you combine all these different universities thank you so um yeah Europe is kind of similar in this sense that we have quite similar challenges also we
Are quite diverse which is our asset um I give you one very specific examples within Alisa we are creating Frameworks uh we don’t try to really address all kinds of local challenges on a Global Perspective we we create Frameworks so that each institution can approach it and adapt it to the local
Necessities but since we are a network a strong Network the trust is already built we can build up on that and there are two things one is very easy to create joint project beforehand when we didn’t have such networks and maps of research facilities competencies and so
On it took several weeks month to reach out for example for a European Horizon Project nowadays it takes like a week because all the nawor is in place we know each other we trust each other we have already some drafts about our common ideas so apply for a project is
Fast but it’s also very fast to approach a real challenge Real World Challenge and one specific example is the um the sad events that happened in Turkey uh back in there early this year we had the earthquake there within three days uh The Budapest University team and the Istanbul Technical University team was
On site and measuring the different buildings if they going to be collapsing or they can be uh fortified for longer lasting so it wouldn’t have happened without our alliance existing because we knew the people from itu from BME and immediately we got in contact the night of the earthquake we were calling the
Vice director of itu okay let’s do team up and let’s go to the site in the south of turkey and it happened civil engineering mechanical engineering experts went down there checking out the cracks and the stress uh of the different uh establishments and buildings so that’s how it
Works yeah well in in my opinion the the the the global and local um levels uh when we speak about sustainability or Global change and these kind of issues are really very connected and then the the I think the alliances can give um a a vision of nine universities coming
From different cultures different Traditions which helps this Step Ahead from the from the local to the to the global aspects of this this kind of of problem so so in my opinion we have a a very nice opportunity to uh to go ahead or to to to try to give some answers to
To some of the biggest problems we have as in the humanity now with this uh Global change for example and here the in my opinion the alliances has a a lot to do yeah L do you want to add something yeah well actually of course I I fully second
All uh what has been brought by the colleagues this is I think absolutely key maybe I would add two points which is uh that I believe the alliance compared to what a single University can do and other type of networks larger networks uh is an incredible machine for
Multiplier um we see in particular that it really gives much much rapid and more visibility of local activities that that are absolutely uh relevant and and having an impact but with only one University or one institution to really become uh sort of mainstream it will take a long time but with the alliance
It’s really again this sort of sudden multiplier capacity which which makes it really an incredible opportunity there there is a comment or question in the audience um yeah hello can you hear me okay um so my name is Hazel I’m actually a Capone student in the chu Masters and
I was just quite intrigued to hear about the role that the SGS were playing within each of the alliances and my question is about the criticisms of the SGS and props um I wanted to ask are the alliances being critical about the SGS perhaps especially in the case where
Entire Masters are created around specific SGS and I can elaborate further if needed L maybe you you can answer because you you created dedicating Master to to SGS so yeah yeah I can I can try to respond because actually this is an excellent question and we know
That the uh the framework of the sdgs is sometimes uh criticize because indeed when you look at the definition of each sdg can be quite broad but I think it is actually that particular aspect which makes it somehow interesting because this means that you can you can really
Be flexible in how you address a given sdg um now to to respond regarding the master program in in our case we have indeed a master program on uh specific sdgs uh good health and well-being for instance with a focus on Aging for instance uh and and and healthy aging uh
The one on uh quality education has a focus on uh Intercultural and multilingualism uh studies and one on sustainable cities and communities has a more uh focus on um the uh public uh uh regulations related to um to energy and and transportation um will which means that actually indeed each of these master
Program will address part part of the sdg clearly but it will address it and I think this is the added value compared to classical approaches it will address it from a multi- disciplinary approach typically for instance the one on on on Aging that we healthy aging that we have
Already started has of course some aspects which are related to to human health uh to sometimes also a CL clinical approach of Health but there is a whole part which is related to silver economy and how actually the uh aging people can be still maintained sorry to
Use this wording but in the society as active so there is basically the the health but also the societal approach to to health and and clearly this is not so often that we have a master program that brings uh the the the more um hard Sciences or Natural Sciences with the
Social social and Humanities uh Sciences so so that I think is a clear added value of what uh can be used through the SGS thank you hi is this on okay um I’m also fascinated by this notion of the interface some of you brought up multiple times could you give a
Practical example of how such an interface is constituted and how a community arises through the working with such an interface yeah you took took our last microphone so yeah um practical example very simple industri a partner inside the community together with students academics brings up industrial Challenge on whatever and the students and
Academics working on that uh one of our communities is uh related to art um AR augmented reality and VR then we have a problem in there one of the companies brought up color representation in VR so the community is working on that specific topic this is not really an sdg
But this is a technical issue but that’s a practical example for that and uh I don’t know if it answers your question but there are several of these technical specific specificities that come up and they need the expert group that they working on that one other thing that uh
And actually it goes back to the criticism on sdgs for example uh I wouldn’t criticize the sdgs because they have framework they are not the specific challenges by the way but there is one thing I feel like missing or very from Far attached to sdgs is about ethics and
How the ethical approach of the different sciences and this goes back to your question it’s a practical example how about the ethical approach in engineering this this is something one of our community is dealing with so when an engineer is designing or developing a new product A New Concept how do you
Know what it will have as an impact on society and I don’t want to give a old-fashioned example of the nuclear technology for example if you want to use it ethically what you do you really need to understand the concept of ethics and you need to take it into account
When you’re designing things so this is another practical approach um maybe not so touchable like as as a robotics or as augmented reality there is question yeah uh hello sh University of Bergen thank you to the panel it’s a very very interesting discussion um my question is uh many of
The challenges that you will be uh dealing with in your programs they will probably come up locally uh how do you balance this with students coming from many different places are there like linguistic barriers do you need students from only local students to work on the challenges
Or or do you need to provide translations or how do you do this yeah well it is an interesting question and a difficult issue to to deal with the very different yeah traditions and languages of these uh students in our case we we are a little
We have four um joint programs but none of them has still began so we are expecting what is going to happen when when we begin H hopefully in next academic course uh but we have experiences with the interchange of arasmus students and students coming for several activities we are we are
Preparing and uh of course there is a big diversity of students but uh in general the experience is very positive and for them also in my opinion so it is a a good mixture we we are all universities in the coast and with very many similarities also so they find very
Soon the the analogies or the similarities and uh in in general the the answer from them is is very very good I don’t know if my colleagues just a short com I I don’t really experience the only focus on the only local because we have local as well as Global
Challenges so it’s also un agencies or WWF who have more kind of local uh uh perspective so I I think it’s a good combination of both local and and Global and European National challenges just one short comment I didn’t emphasize on that all our communities and we have also joint calls have a
Basic requirement of of having at least three of the member institutions present in them otherwise they cannot be lunched so we already give a certain platform from different institutions to work together the language is not a problem nowadays I think is there any other question on the audience
No no so we are running a little bit out of time so uh maybe we can continue this discussion during the coffee break because I have a question but I will ask you in private about long life learning and the challenges that arise from the company
Who want to be trained and to be taught uh so we have to W to to thank again all the speakers from this session thank you very much also online thank you um for those of you who have been to BRB who probably knows the ceremony but our
Guest usually get one thing uh book is not just a uh not just a city of a university we have fortunately also other things that we are strong about and one thing is the wine you have probably seen it already or at least about lyard and so um small than
We have hour nevertheless we have another um interesting panel planned we move now from the experiences of the other and our also our own Alliance to a panel uh on yeah where we have the different stakeholders actually um of our alliance invited um I only introduce
A panel chair which is anag GR mm she is Professor of international business and head of the subject International Market at or academy uh University and um I’ve learned that she is very passionate about teaching has accumulated several Awards about that and also in this reaching out to stakeholders external
Stakeholders Miss teaching so I hand over to you and you just like before you then introduce your panelist if you don’t mind thank you thank you um is this one now on can can you hear me well okay testing yeah great thank you for the introduction and uh well good
Day on behalf of of me as well um in this session the session is is is themed collaborating together for stronger impact so um the aim here is to discover how we can collaborate um or further expand our coroporation and uh one way of doing so is to tap into Regional networks Regional
Ecosystems and um we have some examples coming here from our charm EU Partners later on today um the question is rather about how do we connect the dots the dots are there and the dots are emerging so let’s see if we today can come up
With some new ideas on how to create the ecosystems of ecosystems and creating those um patterns we will hopefully hear some good examples and best practices uh on how to collaborate today and uh just a bit uh before I ask our panelists and speakers to appear here um our panelists
Will give a introduction and um speech based on their experience and expertise about 10 minutes and after that we will commence our discussion and I hope that the audience is also ready to ask questions and engage in this conversation without uh any further Ado I think I will ask our panelists to join
Us I’ll start with the ladies first Audrey Crosby uh she’s industry Alliance and man manager at Trinity College in Dublin uh Audrey has over 25 years of experience in the higher education sector in Ireland and she has co-developed and uh implemented large scale collaborative projects with both industry partners and also Crossing disciplinary
Boundaries and um in addition Audrey has been involved with building research programs right secure funding and leading teams and co-funding in uh a trinity campus company as well so you have pretty much interesting experience that we hope to hear more about and then um I’m going to ask freak van mwin to join
Us he is director uh entrepreneurship and Regional Partnerships at utr University he’s originally a medical biologist and uh has experience of both research and policym and most recently he has been involved in several initiatives based on private Public Partnerships and then we have Lucas kagerbauer he’s a deputy manager of the
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of vburg and schwein for he also lectures at the Julius maximilan University of vburg in econometrics and statistics right and uh also in economic journalism and business communication and he he’s actively involved in integrating business and Academia within the region welcome and our fourth um speaker
Panelist is Alexander panak yes he is manager at the regional Innovation platform of the bassinder th he is an expert on living Labs actually and open Innovation approach and network one might say and uh today he’s managing the blue th uh living lamp platform which focuses on Coastal and iron Environmental
Protection and next we will hear uh four interesting presentations and uh I think maybe freak would you like to comment okay as you’re sitting there the first one can we do it over there yes go ahead of patience thank you much well it’s great honor to present something about the region around UT
University it’s all about how we interact with our stakeholders and just to start off by saying that two colleagues of our stakeholders it’s the municipality of UT is in the room so you can talk to him later he’s a valued colleague in all our Enterprises in the region and also the uh Regional
Development agency the ROM UT is here with Simon so the three of us are really representing everything which is outside University though I’m working for IT University I supposed to be half of my time outside the university buildings at least and I will give some flavor of
What we are doing and I took one example I was asked um to do and also asked who you are and what you do well who I am is quite easy to understand director of Entrepreneurship and Regional Partnerships it’s all about entrepreneurial Spirit about making contacts with the outer world but it’s
Also about one of the stgs number 17 explaining how important it is that we make these Partnerships between government private sector and civil society and I think the morning session already was full of beautiful examples of that but we try to do our best in our region as well in this triple helix
Model then of course UT University is the maybe the the easiest way to get to know us it’s part of our strategic plan and what is important for me at least on the left side that on top of it it’s said that UT University will act with local and Global Partners it’s
The old slogan mentioned before this morning it’s from the hippie time act local Sy Global and that we do with the city the region and also the residents of our region and I think that’s an important starting point and then of course we do this with UT Science Park
The ROM and the economic board and all the businesses around us so for me as in my job it’s nice that this is listed as number one priority in the Strategic plan but that’s a joke on the right side you see what we did already 10 years ago
We started to think not as a university composed of faculties and maybe university colleges but really as a university built around four big strategic teams and the teams are mentioned here dynamics of Youth institutions for open societies life sciences and pass ways to sustainability and more and more we like to organize
Our activities along these lines and that works fine because then you trigger interdisciplinarity in all facets of University so I like that very much then one question posed by our chair was FR can you elaborate a little bit what you think impact is and this this question has been um asked many
Times and in ut University at least we have some schematic approach that gives all the people in the university the rest that they all work on impact the one way is maybe economic impact it’s on top so the first comment from one of the scholars was why is economic on top
Because that’s not the most important part so we probably will turn it a little bit around like a clock in the future to stress that this also about other forms of impact and I think everybody in the audience will recognize itself in some of the aspects social impact public policy impact well that’s
The connection also with the government here uh in the in the room but public engagement is important profession practice impact think about the clinics we have in the fat school but also of course the human clinics working on really professional impact ped pedagogical well that’s not word I’ve
Learned before impact is important it’s all about Ed tech and and innovation in educational programs and also the classical scholarly impact Publications are still valuable of course so that’s that’s my answer already to the chair models to fuel Regional Innovation diffusion it’s all about impact of course the knowledge in the should
Really be spread out in the society maybe in a shorter action scheme and I will show you one example about the topic healthy Urban living that was around in our University for years and later on we realized we could make a hub out of that knowledge it called the data
And knowledge Hub healthy Urban living and I will show you some of the dilemas building this Hub and also what we are now doing in this Hub but before that I would love to like to show you a picture made by one of one of our Scholars and
As you can see he is standing in the middle of the street in ut when he was still a younger scientist at the fat school now he is a full professor in epidemiology and exposome science so the science telling really what you’re exposed to as a human being what does it
Mean for health and disease so it’s a very complicated field but very interesting if you think about the building environment and the environment as such so rul for is really our figurehead and he made a beautiful picture about 10 years ago I have to admit but it’s still very actual for our
Proposition so I will show you the movie and I hope you will enjoy some of the flavor of our city you will see some streets and insights of our Science Park as well now it’s of course a little bit tricky but I hope the movie will Start [Applause] [Applause] y you Go You Hope you don’t feel seick because I showed it one more but of course GES a nice in Insight in our science but also in our little city and then this is then the the formal part the data and science Hub of course has a goal like many hubs and uh
It said here that it is an independent and open platform of public and private organizations also including for example The dirch Institute of Health the N Center of Health they’re working together with the residents it’s quite a challenge but we really do and we have special programs in this Hub to take
Care of this uh conversation going on with the uh Community all the time and it’s already really mentioned but it is really policy by data or data driven policy so it’s not assuming that something is like this of that but it’s really monitored over longterm periods
What is happening to the health of a certain area in the city or what is going on among the residents and we have lots of programs running in this Consortium and and of course we have websites and first we had to lens the car from Google Earth to to to monitor
The city now we have our own cars running around with our own logo and also on the right side panel which is now covered by somebody else we have sniffer bikes running around in our area with with little devices on the bike so we can monitor real time what is the
Quality of the air just by using our biking community so that kind of fun things happening with lots of science behind it of course and then these are some of the partners I mentioned already that is really covered up but it do government like the National Institute
Of Public Health is behind us but also big uh building companies and of course the public uh public space like the municipality of utre but also some other cities the economic board is partner and we are teaming up really to be a community of practice really first we
Started to do product development but now we skipped that we are really talking to each other about what will be the future Solutions and I have to prove something Yan you ask me what it’s all about well this is one example this is
New uh urban area in the city of J is at this moment we are building it this is all conform the concepts of healthy Urban living and we are also monitoring the new residents there with all kind of questionnaires and stuff like that so this is a small part of our city but
It’s really a showcase how we then accomplish real really the goals final slide we also went all the way to Taiwan a couple of years ago with our mayor and and vice mayor at that time to show this concept to the outer World also with all the Innovations in it with all the
Companies contributing to healthy Urban living as really a trade and invest Mission almost to Taipei and of course in Taiwan they like posters like this well we love it because it’s UT telling Healthy urbal Living stories all all abroad but we bring also the technology from Taiwan to our city to implement so
I love this story in as as an example of course it’s all not Sunshine all the time are we there already with this Consortium not really and I took this picture as is a little bit stolen of the process of transition what will an individual think during a process of
Transition it’s always in the beginning oh yeah let’s do it and then after a while people come a little bit disappointed by everything and then you lose some people there in the in the transition and at the end you will find your Coalition of the Willing again and
I think this is symbolic for how hubs are made by by all of us and then after five years there’s always a dip and then you have to really be careful to take it out of the dip again and go for the next phase so I like this picture a lot as an
Sort of symbol how we like to work on ecos distance but also to be honest sometimes you have some disappointing periods in this phase and the final slide is just to show that our colleagues of the region will have a poster this afternoon in the poster
Session I’m not sure it’s Simon or maybe it’s you but your presenting a poster about how we really team up in the program you forward in the region and I hope you will attend the poster this [Applause] afternoon thank you and uh next Alexander Please for video I will have to switch okay so the slide come from France so it’s a little bit long I’m sorry there are no there uh hello everybody so I’m Alexander I’m working in a public Authority which is called Sanda mixed of baso uh so BAS is what you see on this
Uh picture it’s our playground like I say and um it’s a big legon natural lagon uh which is classified as a at an international point of view with a big label it’s very close from M and um it’s about uh if you want to have some let’s say
Some numbers so is there is one public authority smbt to to lead all this territory this territory is the the lagon so uh 7,500 hectar I don’t know if you know the I I can translate this measure uh of lagon you we have um 59 Rivers we have a
Um about 40 kilm of coastal uh 26 T um so it’s a it’s a big place with u 450 oyster farms on the lagon so it’s a it’s a big deal to create something um to conserve something uh natural and uh on another side uh to combinate with Enterprises which develop and exploit
The the water and the this lagon to uh to create some uh let’s say muscle Farms or oyster farms so we are we have so many Mission uh we are 20 persons on this uh Public Authority um we can say it’s like a prospective agency prospective territorial agency so we have a big
Mission on the the first one is to conserve the natural ecosystem of this uh the endemic uh species and and uh all the reglementation uh around this uh these PES and uh we have many uh combinate Mission as for example elimary project uh to improve to drop um organic foods and short food
Circuits we have um special platform uh which deals with about the the health of the lagons the healthier part of the of our missions um we combinate all all day long um oxygen temperatures um uh risks and prevent uh and alert different oyster F and muscle farms and
Authorities to uh to prevent uh on each event because Al lagon is a very particular ecosystem very sensitive so as we are in climate conditions and the submersion conditions and fle conditions come on it’s a it’s a good it’s a good place good location but with all the 21
Century risks so um it’s a good place to innovate uh we have some water exploitation I said that we have um also um we we we drive um we manage the the big document um which is called in Fr Scot so for a schemer of um territorial coherences uh for strategic orientation
For the territories it’s a kind of um let’s say um the big promise for the next 20 years uh to about environment about Mobility about social about habitation about uh Mobility I say that uh around 70 m so it’s a it takes two time each time to uh to
To refound this document we are now uh in this in this stape of refunding since two year we will uh publishing this on next year um we have uh also um special plan for prevent and react uh in event of floods and all the territories with all
Uh we take uh we take place and for each mayor and uh give them uh all the compartments and the methodology to develop when they are in big event as for example two weeks Ago so as I say um it’s a it’s a good place to to to improve our mission and to develop some let’s say new new way to to work with water um and the sandic mix decided in uh 5 years ago uh to candidate on National call to create kind of living
Lab so this living lab uh make me come in the team um and this living lab is uh his purpose is to create some new object new Services new system around uh environment protection and uh protection too and um the the entri door is finally for the different um uh initiatives is
To uh is to be in a general interest so you could be an Enterprise you could be uh a company you could be an industrial you could be a researcher a scientist you could be an University you could be a civil society C citizen um and we we just uh try to
Make with you uh the project go uh to the end with all the other parts of the ecosystem that I just uh uh said as for example University um industry Enterprise we need to create the common language uh to uh to make all these people work
Together make the project go to the end but uh finally make a an opportunity by a project to create a research project action for all the territory um about public I I just uh speak about them so um you have here all the public with uh we work with uh today
And each day um my job uh annually is to lead about let’s say 20 25 project by year um long project uh long-term project and very shortterm project uh one of the main use case is when you have a an entreprise or a startup who just want to acced to water and they
Need authorization they need to improve their prototype and to develop a proof of concept and uh I said yesterday uh one of our problem is to make them uh stay on the territory and not just uh considerate the territory as a place uh to improve or to uh to make a
Demonstration but uh really to develop and uh build their their model and their business uh inside the place so that’s why um 3 years ago we cross with a university of melier and different uh Partnerships um to emulate on different subject with uh students with PS and um we began to to work
Together so after two success story on different uh concrete case and use case that we uh we chare um with uh special programs very short program like Sprints or Workshop or aat we decided to work together on a long-term uh project which is called Mo mode challenge um you have
The traduction and translation on there um M for M cross mobility and uh the purpose is uh to um collect about uh 20 uh 12 challenges we uh we found about 12 challenges and I um I was provider of eight of these 12 challenges uh this
Year for the spring and uh it’s all true project so I I show you there uh I let you uh appreciate this different challenge there is um micro and strategic project there is a micro and very local project uh but it’s project that you can have on your territories
Too uh it’s about health it’s about environment it’s about technology IIA um it’s about um Health many many um and the the the objective was to create about let’s say group of eight or 10 students and each uh eight or 10 students um meet met uh
During this period um all the actors and the stakeholders of the territory that I um managed before uh to create the the good uh the good bridge between student and this uh different U representant of the territory so they work 10 days let’s say on the place baso and the rest of
The day they go to university of M continue to develop the challenge uh in order to present the proposition the proposals um at the end of the last week uh they were on place because there are student who are all over the the Europe so they they met for the first time uh
Um during this Challenge and uh they they learn to learn themselves and they learn to work together during this time so it was very exciting very exciting for me because uh I’m I’m usually work with a Enterprise FM startup scientist so student is more
Fresh and uh we go farer we it’s uh it’s it’s a way to um to change and to to think under the boook with uh with uh people who are in the project it’s a way to to um to make uh the project manager evaluate in them in their Vision uh of
The uh TR trajectory of the project I must call Martin because it’s a Video Oh students are asked to find Solutions provide Solutions and potential paths to specific sustainable uh challenges that are uh around those that fragile ecosystem which is the L on the Oh for For The aim of our project was to protect the protected zones of the ban um without excluding human activities and especially we wanted to look at watercraft Sports um so people then rent boat or other um water sport equipment um for a few hours during the day and uh
We wanted to guide them away from protected zones and that is why we developed this GPS technology um that aims at keeping people away uh from these CR Systems my challenge was on the implementation of w continuation W ulators of devices buil to the sea to prevent Coastal erosion from incoming waves and um our stakeholders really concerned with uh the public acceptance of this uh W it’s in Pilot project because of his visibility so our project
Was essentially about thinking how uh this wayes could be acceptable to the public through integrating it well with the landscape the needs of the community but most importantly by getting the community really involved in the project and giving them a stake My uh main uh uh task was to connect the the students uh involved in the challenge with the many stakeholders uh during all the week uh I mean for example uh local authorities uh companies uh Farmers uh Association and NGS and so and so the the student was enthusiastic that
That the stakeholders uh really play the game to save time for us to share a lot of data and uh much more than what I think they they they previously think it was so nice to see each other for the first time in real life with all
Of us because everyone is based on different universities and although I really like working online it was also nice to meet reps in real life and we had a great time uh really interesting projects and stakeholders we could engage with so uh overall a Great it’s been a very cool very exhausting and very enriching experience now I think the very nice aspect was the social Dimension us coming together from all over Europe many of us have never met each other before and really uh getting to work but also like just hang
Up how to hang up with each other and have fun and um another thing I really liked was um the stakeholder contact and the tability of the Challenges all challenge most more is a challenge a unique one enriching exhausting and beautiful inlight Community a field Adventure [Applause] sorry for this and but I need to share the time with my colleague so I got two minute to conclude a couple of words please
Okay so um after this picture I I want to um to say thank you to willot to realize this movie U which which is a very good movie to and to illustrate to the word of the student because they don’t we don’t hear uh them many many
This morning so it was a way uh to give to give them the word um and uh what about Capi because with Martin we we we talk about that yesterday and this morning so um Capi for us Capi for them um what about uh the following of these kind of
Challenges so uh we need to uh to be to to balance um this kind of uh relationships uh to give some polarity to uh to give to to erase to improve uh to optimize the results to focus on one thing because uh uh on my way I’m I’m just on many many
Objective so I I I uh I missed many many things uh uh in the in the way to to lead uh Empower all users to to make the project stronger um collect uh as rolon said in the video we need to uh to uh to
Collect and to uh to grow some datas in each project make a diagnosis uh become a contact Point uh necessary contact Point uh on the value chain uh capture attention uh capitalist data I say that imagine uh because uh we often uh forget to imagine in each project what is the alternative
What is the there is no one solution but many solutions so program together uh raise awareness create training generate a prospective Vision uh continue prospective Vision in projects abilitate uh to be sensitive and to stay sensitive all time in each project it’s important designer so you need to be sensitive all
Time all the time uh in each project be engaged and uh very important habituate and coaching sincerely you need to tell the truth all the time because they are a future professional so they need to have this luggage with with them all their life and it’s in this kind of moment you you
Need it’s an obligation to to be sincere and to be uh sensitive too when when you you say someone is wrong uh it’s the wrong way or we can look together on another Direction uh to maybe um ACC company evaluate accelerate RS bonds um many many uh things and many compartment to
Have and to do and uh they need to to have this uh to understand this uh in their future career uh dist stand because the scalability of the project is necessarily a point at the beginning of the of the challenge for them so modelize mutualize compare uh Inspire
And finally uh adapt to appropriate to anticipate to answer um and uh explore so I will uh take the N word just to give you a little anecdote because yesterday evening when I come back to my hotel I check my email before sleeping it’s not a good habit but I
Confess and um I received a message uh from four of the students uh who are today uh um working in Institute of oceanology and they call me on the project you see called Rua and uh they call me because they find me a partnership uh for this year and we are
Completely uh synchronized because the project is uh is now developing and we are we are now uh churching about partnership so we have some um I don’t know the English word for that but we have a little present in the in the flyer swed with uh I don’t remember Gren help
Me yeah so you you you must uh put them in the ground and and stay and be patient and it always a success thank you thank thank you Alexandre now let’s give the word to Audrey okay don’t worry okay good afternoon everybody uh my name is Audrey Crosby from Trinity College um
I’m not going to use slides because I know we’re running out of time so uh I’m going to do a Whistle Stop tour through the ecosystem that we have in Dublin and Ireland um small country only five million people we’ve got about 26 uh research institutions seven of them your traditional universities and
We’ve got a new pH way of technological universities coming on stream um but as such the uh the ecosystem in Ireland has been very much one of national and Global challenges has been one whereby um any of our spinouts are born Global typically you know you may not
Even have your first customer or any customer based in Ireland um so we’ve always had a very International Outlook um I’m going to have to put my glasses on there to see my own slides there we go so just in terms of some of the uh some of the the the partners the
Regional um partners that we have um are a mixture of government agencies funding agencies uh the industry representative bodies the Chambers of Commerce um and then some of the supporting networks um for startups Innovation hubs and business Angel networks as well as seed investment organizations we also work very closely
With Enterprise Ireland that’s the government agency that works um to support indigenous companies and we’ll invite International companies to come and set up in Ireland as well um they work in tandem with Ida Ireland who have a remit to uh attract foreign direct investment in as well um and has done
Very well in terms of multinational companies in particular us companies and setting up their European headquarters um mainly in Dublin but some of the pharmaceutical companies down in Cork and in the west of Ireland the medical device companies um so it’s a very vibrant ecosystem and the universities
Are very much um embedded within that Innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem um there has been a sea change over the last 15 20 years where the government has significantly increased its investment in R&D and has strategies now in terms of our Innovation 2030 remit in you know advancing digital
Skills um and bringing uh a new remit in terms of sustainability and the green economy uh to the four an organization called knowledge transfer Ireland which uh provides the uh the Bedrock for our national intellectual property policy um and pulls together the research performing organization in terms of our interaction
Uh with industry and with Society in general um and support in a significant financial way our technology transfer offices um providing both um funding for resources for Staffing as well as um patent patent budgets as well um and we’ve seen a significant increase again in terms of the um licensing the
Spinouts um patent grants and um invention disclosures over many years and I know freak explained some of the other impact measures um that we’re all measuring now um in terms of the outputs from our research being for societal um as well as economic benefit um I’ll talk a little bit about
Our own student entrepreneurship programs um about 10 years ago I’ll give you an example we set a launchbox um initially using some philanthropic funding that we had from serial entrepreneurs uh that wanted to support back into their uh former Alma matter um and so every year over the last 10 years
Approximately 10 student startups uh which have to go through a competitive process um are actually paid to work paid yes get a salary over the summer to work on their own companies and their own ideas um one of those projects came from an undergraduate student of business in economics um with a master
Student in environmental science Who Loved food um but uh had a real problem with the amount of food waste that was going on um they felt that there was a technological um opportunity here where they could matchmake retailers supermarkets through producers with Charities uh so through their launchbox
Project over the summer and with some seed investment uh from some of the uh the philanthropic donors um they got their app set up and they got their first couple of early bird customers in um and then eventually managed to uh secure Tesco and one shop um in the
Tesco franchise in Dublin City Center who could see on the ground some of the problems um of of poverty and and food poverty in particular so that company over the last 10 years has scaled um both in Ireland they have eight um food hubs now um they have over 20,000 meals
Have been provided to Charities um within Ireland and they’ve um expanded into the UK and they have 3,000 Tesco shops now in the UK that are providing food um that would otherwise go to waste go into landfill with all of the CO2 emissions associated with that um and they are
Being redistributed back into the Charities um so that’s just one example of a student project with the support and the infrastructure from the University that has managed you know to to succeed has a national program and now is an internationalized and if you could imagine what the opportunities might be
Within the charm Network to leverage our other partner universities ecosystems and Regional Partners um to see a student on a startup like that to expand across Europe and globally hopefully um so our yeah our our our our student undergraduate postgraduate students accredited modules um and my
Colleague Jake is here who will be in some of the workshops later can tell you more about that he’s the academic uh director of tangent um another another uh element I’ll just talk to about uh which was of interest to some of our colleagues in the work package 15
Yesterday was the fact that Trinity set up a seed fund um with University College Dublin initially in 2016 and then with our colleagues in Cork uh for our second round of funding so went from 60 million up to 80 million 50% of the funds need to be invested in univers the
Three University spinouts student startups or alumni startups so again bridging that Gap that Valley of Death when you’ve got a research program which isn’t quite investor ready um is quite high risk and that they can’t necessarily get business angels or the VC Community to invest so this has
Really helped to see acceleration in the quality and the quantity of our own spin out both from research and from the student base um I mentioned Enterprise Ireland earlier um another program and again looking at best practice um sharing best practice they have a commercialization fund which provides researchers and only
University researchers can apply for this the opportunity uh for 100% funding into the university to work on a proof of concept or a prototype of their product service business model whatever it is um but also to work on their business plan and their market research um the the uh business partner program
The mentoring program the incubation program and everything else that goes along with helping our startups and our ecosystems um we work quite closely with Enterprise Ireland in um so my day job is industry liaison Business Development uh so I work quite closely with the research Community with about a thousand academic researchers uh
Within Trinity College and it’s working on the with them on strategic um high impact research opportunities and over Co um along with a professor of Neurology or hardyman um we put a Consortium together of Industry pharmaceutical companies medical device companies uh a a cro a clinical research organization data science companies um
Who’ve who’ve committed to investing 5 million euro in a new program a paneuropean program to collect data in a uh for on patients with motor neuron disease or ALS um we have Partners at the University Medical Center in utra we have Partners um at the hospital delmare
In Barcelona um so our charm colleagues may not even know about this program it’s called Precision ALS um but we did this from our kitchens and our bedrooms during CO as we put this Consortium together um it will collect uh 6,000 prospective um so so new patients with motor neuron
Disease over the next 3 to four years and we will do sophisticated machine learning analysis on that data to ensure that those patients um are put in the right clinical trials put on the right drugs at the right time for the maximum impact on their quality of life with a
View to finding a cure for moan neuron disease within the next 5 to 10 years so again an opportunity here where we could see the opportunity to leverage the charm uh Network and Innovation and uh societal partners and Industry Partners where we could potentially see programs like that um accelerate and showcase
That a network and an alliance like charm has benefits across our research our Innovation and our education programs so I leave it there and um thank you very much for your time thank you alri and now we have Lucas so hello and good evening or good uh afternoon U I have to say um ladies and gentlemen I’m very honored to speak here at this conference for the Chamber of industry and commerce um my name is Lucas kagabo and I am the um Vice CEO for the Chamber of industry and commerce
Here in witzburg We Are One of um 79 chamers in Germany and one of nine chambers of industry and Commerce in Bavaria um I thought that I would like to present you as one of the stakeholders in this ecosystem um a little bit about what we do here um in
The economic ecosystem how does the economic ecosystem looks like um why is it so challenging at the moment and of course in this context why are the cooperations and collaborations between Academia and business so important and at the end um I’m very happy to um hear your questions and discuss with you in
The panel so let me start uh really quick um here in our region um we already had the first chats um I saw a lot of similarities to other regions here like for example utri um we have 7 71,000 member firms that are um members at the Chamber of industry and commerce
Besides us there is the Chamber of crafts in the system as you know in Germany um here we have 71,000 member firms um where are the economical um heavy weights um we have it in the automotive supply sector we have um FOC focus on Machinery uh construction and
Health Care Health Care in a lot of facets like ealth but also really traditional Healthcare sector um moreover I think uh I don’t have to tell you this um Innovation um is very important in order to keep us uh globally competitive um we are living in a very challenging environment um from
The side of the businesses um there are several um trends that we are facing um and moreover of course as you see when we look at the business Cycles it’s getting more and more volatile so um there is a lot of change there is a lot
Of volatility um and in order to manage this it is very important for our region which is um representing like 98% small and medium-sized firms um that there have to be fruitful collaborations and ecosystem systems um the trends I don’t have to go too much into details you
Know it as well but from other perspectives the demographic change of course um will lead to the the circumstance that we getting less people here um on the labor market and we getting older this is of course a very challenging um situation for businesses um moreover um decarbonization we’ve
Heard a lot of um climate change programs um this is also a very big trend affecting businesses um in our region but I think all over Germany and Europe um and of course the digitization and we have heard some approaches here in this context as well um and when I when I
Talk about these Trends um and the these circumstances um it is very important to collaborate and um this is one um initiative that I taking from the the chamber side that I really try to focus um on on the collaborations between um Academia and business um we have a lot
Of stakeholders in this ecosystem as well um when we talk here about these Coop cooperations and collaborations of course we have the university here in wburg um we also have a technical um university here in wburg and in schweinf for um and there are a lot of professors
And researchers that really fit very good to the businesses here in our region and it is of course course um work and it is a journey and I’m having in mind your picture from the ups and downs in the ecosystems of course it is a lot of work but is really worthful um
Working um when we when I look at our ecosystems um as I said yesterday and um in the beginning we are not here in in Berlin or Hamburg or Munich we are not um a region having the really large cities but we have other advantages um naming that we are smaller we have
Shorter ways we have maybe more intense contacts with the people and I think it is the people in the institutions and in the organizations and um or the the founding centers that make our ecosystem so so good and effective um and this is what we should um focus on I think so um
I had um also prepared some examples where we are collaborating already between Academia um and and business of course um we are from the chamber side funding um several research projects um for example there has been um a professorship in business journalism and business communication where the um the
Chamber gave the seed funding um and the university um made the steady funding after the seat phase um this is one one project or other projects in the field um of um XR research drones or even psychology where we give a little starting fund um to start projects and and give them a
Chance moreover we also collaborating in studies with professors here from the University for example we are exam having uh examined the industrial Readiness um Industrial Revolution or no not the Industrial Revolution it’s IR in Readiness industry 4.0 um how fit are our um companies how um good are they already in this process
Um here we have interesting professors that have expertise um and working with us in studies and of course Network events um here in this um room we having an annual um conference or event called um business business meets Academia vft drift vens shaft um we have it already
For for eight years now and we have impulses from research and from businesses and afterwards we have um a glass of wine and a snack and very good um talks and networks which is very important um not to underestimate mostly the the the best talks will be later um when you have a
Glass wine in your hand or and um and um the last uh the bullet point I have here on my list is that we also support in forms of um letters of intent for good projects for example when uh researchers try to get um a fund um from from different different um institutions
For projects we are opening um the network um to the business side um connecting with local businesses that um are fitting for the project and we are also signing the letters of intents um there are several already currently uh in the making so um I think it’s not a question if
Collaborations um are worthful it is really um very important uh and it’s a need that we are actively collaborating here in the ecosystems because especially when we have small mediumsized businesses um and we are a region that is smaller than the the big um cities in Germany we need to use the
Power of um alliances and cooperations and collaborations um and therefore I think we have good setup in the local um networks but it’s very fruitful to think about the the intersections to the um International um networks and um so I think charm EU is a very good opportunity to identify by um
Intersections parallels um and synergies so I’m very happy here to to talk to you today um and I’m open for for questions now on the panel thank you very [Applause] much thank you for these uh examples and and and uh presentations uh that the panelists have given I think I think
It’s uh probably okay or I hope it’s okay if we use another 10 minutes um to um try to get some more out of our panelists and speakers um I wanted to maybe start off this um conversation with a question um we all know that collaboration can be challenging
Um stakeholders can have different expectations or goals that don’t align with uh the universities or the rest of the network so to speak uh what advice do you have for C collaboration that is uh sustainable we know it takes some time for for impact to happen but what would you say we
Should focus on when we create sustainable collaboration freak would you mind maybe the short answer is to to set realistic uh goals so maybe if if you talk about long-term and and shortterm agendas which sometimes are not the same it’s maybe nice to have a portfolio of
Goals which are a little bit more shortterm and realistic in a sense but also the longer term goals should be there but otherwise you do not really make a sustainable change but make a make a nice package for all the stakeholders I would say without losing your focus for the long term good
Answer collaboration um cooperation and The Innovation are not a short time uh it’s just policies uh in Enterprises and uh it’s just a kind of the organization is just a part of the organization so if you doesn’t accept if you don’t accept this uh this first point it’s complicate
To develop and to create something you you need uh absolutely to to slow uh to slow down with all Partners to create a good collaboration and to have I think little objectives at the beginning to create little success to create something great at the end but you need
To to improve each day your relationship with your partners so it’s a very long time I think I would like to direct a a question to to Lucas you said that it’s the the people in the organization I ations that create the collaboration and they do so what what requirements do we
Have on our colleagues uh teachers researchers anybody who who who is working in the organizations who are the ones actually doing the collaborations how what competences do they need what competences they no oh yes um that’s a very good question um I think to go one step back to the F the
Question before is I think we all have to understand that when we work in ecosystems that we are following one larger goal and it’s coming down to the point where some institutions and also people have to put some egos behind them and put the bigger goal in front uh and
When when we talk about an economic ecosystem of course we all want that our region um is prospering we have good jobs for the people that are um living here that are studying here because we also have a lot of students that coming from abroad of course we want them to
Stay here in the region because we as well as you of course have very nice environments and and jobs and we want them to stay so um in this ecosystem I think really it is about the people that are um strong enough to put the egos
Behind them and put the the bigger goal in front and we have these people here I’m very happy about that but of course it is not so easy always because institutions and everybody has to bring some benefits fulfilled tasks they have on their their agenda but at at the end
It’s much better to to follow the the overall goal and um then this is maybe something we also can give to the people and this this not a skill it’s more kind of attitude um that together we are really really stronger and um it’s it’s not about the egos so
Much and and those of you in the audience who are wondering why we talk about ecosystems that’s uh actually a very interesting concept um business ecosystems Innovation ecosystems entrepreneurial ecosystems we have Regional local you name it you can put an adjective in front of the word um ecosystems are generally defined as um
The partners or the the the actors that are involved in an uh ecosystem they share a common goal they have a mission it can be one of the grand challenges that they are trying to to address uh the ecosystem um forces the actors to actually trust each other share data um they become
Interdependent Audrey what does this entail for the teachers how does it impact their pedagogical competences their mindset how do they how they teach what’s your take on this so this microphone is is really scaring the panelist but we’ll make it true you won’t turn it off okay
Um I guess from my perspective and I do a lot of facilitation in terms of Partnerships and there needs to be a win win on both sides uh we call it we have a slide that we talk about tuning in to W2 FM and that stands for what’s in it
For me right and that’s a really important thing as a facilitator is that you understand each partner’s position and if there’s not a benefit to them then to a certain extent they’re really not going to engage even if they do on the short term and the long term they
Will drop out or they will cause problems so unless you have pinned down what’s in it for each participant then I think you’re going to have a very difficult job in getting a partnership to work um from from the teaching side and we’ve seen a significant shift I
Think over the last 10 15 years on the demands on the lecturing staff in terms of their education programs bringing into more traditional universities the um the concept of of Team projects which are industry provided um and looking for that industry mentoring as well um looking to facilitate internships where
Your students are going out but that there is learning out out comes as well from that internship program and that all needs to be built into the the taught um modules as well so look it is a it is a huge Challenge and I think that for most of the charm Partners we
Have uh units within our universities that are providing significant supports um and training to those teachers to those lecturers u in terms of what what they’re doing and how they partner and then it’s using the other offices like our own one within Trinity and Innovation and Enterprise where we can
Facilitate those introductions we can help to find the right people within the right organizations um and communicate in a way that businesses understand uh what the outcomes are expected so collaboration also um requires some sort of internal strategic activity would you like to comment on
On on this I fully agree of course with also the personal career of Scholars might be enhanced or boosted by the interaction so if you give them a serious role into play if that’s possible from The Faculty perspective at least they will grow and gain lots of energy outside the university I noticed
To bring it back to the research tables and the educational rooms in the University so what’s in there for them yeah lots of joy and energy but also new insights to bring up your own work to the next level and we could spread the word a little better I guess that if you
Bring people in the consortia and you serve them right they can have a very nice career path which is maybe not pure academic but it’s more a mixture of professional performance outside and academic work and I I love to see this happening here so there’s ground for a
Good future I guess yes this is a a good perspective do we have a question from the audience is there somebody who would like to ask a final question do we have a second microphone let’s let’s uh here you go thank you uh does it work
Yeah um I have a question for all panelists do you have an example of an exchange between a knowledge institution and something like the moxo it’s very inspiring to see it um and societal Partners where first let’s say ground misunder understandings uh occurred and then people really changed their
Position on some something and accepted something either as a key interest of the stakeholders that changed something on the side of the knowledge institutions or the other side because it all looks wonderful but there are always tensions and tensions can be very productive and I would like to know if
You have experiences with these yeah Alexandre um um yeah you’re right it’s um the the the real need is to to be able to create what I called free zone free zone where there is no personality where where where you are not an owner where
You are not a citizen where you are not you’re just a first name and you work together and this free zone is just is not only a symbol it needs uh to be uh in the same time a methodology a collaborative methodology it needs to be a location uh symbolic location that you
You find uh for the moment for the project uh you need to find to uh the good information and to prepare to prepare to prepare more more more each moment uh because you you have um a very short time to be uh efficient uh when all people are working together uh to
To to um Target the the objective so it’s a long time but uh in this long time you have uh many many short time uh that you can fail in this short time because it’s a it’s a way uh to have a a success Road front of
You three values that I want to to say for the predent um question uh it was um to share it’s very important to share all that you have uh as information to to make everybody know the same level as information um to um to prototype to
Test uh all the time uh uh each time I’m designer so uh you you you work with iteration so each time you you test something it doesn’t run you you you restart and you begin to uh a new way to succeed so uh it’s it’s two point very
Important to share to investigate to be sure that there is no something existing uh on the on other part and finally um it’s very important to considerate too uh that we we don’t invent uh many many things so everything exists already that if you investigate correctly and if you you
Look correctly your problematic uh you just have to transfer finally so uh share and transfer two good key to succeed and toh to make people change their attitude in a in a workspace I I hope I answer R maybe they give two blunt answers the municipality of UT city is here and
First we had difficulties to let them join the data and knowledge hub but the reason was they were very much in charge of their own agenda already with very professional approaches so they first thought well what what can we learn from others while the university had maybe
This similar attitude so keep on talking to each other over a long period of time and then then there was a moment in time that the city and the university realized that together we have more but it had to happen also with changes in the management of of both organizations
And of course the very example is the Corona crisis where we had a fat School being experts World leading in Corona vaccines nobody listened to us and all of a sudden the world around us changed so another Consortium was Saved by the Bell because of this uh Global urgency
And then my message is keep on talking to each other about getting to know what is your interest as you said and what is your dilemma and then you will find each other over the years but keep on talking thank you I think I have to
Intervene here I’m sorry yeah I think if I can just uh ask the panelists one thing it’s okay one word what’s the key word for collaborating together for stronger impact one word trust okay trust empathy empathy creativity creativity people and people thank you freak Alexander Audrey
Lucas and now I give the word to you thank you [Applause] same ritual as before of course we cannot uh spare you the wine um before you leave the room I have an announcement to make so I mean you will get uh lunch now of course um afterwards
We have what we call the interactive afternoon and when you registered you all received uh already a fer and because you had before that you had registered whether you are a group A or B so you should ideally have the right folder so for the afternoon session we
Split the group when you registered um uh as group a um you will start with the Thematic sessions after lunch break and then continue with the poster sessions Group B will start with the poster session after the lunch break and then move on to the Thematic
Session um on the handout you find what you are and um the already at this point I’d like to we will we have different sematic groups and we have chairs for those tables I don’t give you the names but those who know that they chair a chair or a table
Thanks to them already we have four tables and um but I I think that will be introduced later again right so now we have