To strengthen the profile and the results of cooperation, the ECIU Executive Board has
decided to put focus on three main areas of activity:
The ECIU Executive Board has furthermore agreed a set of objectives from 2007 to 2010.
• SHORT-TERM OBJECTIVES (3 years)
• To increase the number of Joint Master Programmes and the number of students involved in joint educational activities;
• To increase the numbers of students exchanged within the network;
• To increase the numbers of staff involved in exchanges/ collaboration within the network;
• To increase the number of participants in the ECIU Leadership Development Programme;
• To harvest the benefits of the leadership development programme by involving participants and other innovators in planning discussions at the institution and consortium levels;
• To explore promising ways for collaboration within research;
• To exchange experience regarding the management of research;
• To share expertise in the successful delivery short courses to industry (CPD);
• To share expertise in successful wider access initiatives (eg summer academies)
• To share expertise in knowledge exchange;
• To influence European policy development in the areas of education and technology and knowledge exchange.
• ADDITIONAL LONGER-TERM OBJECTIVES
• Establishing viable models for implementation of emerging HE policies related to the Bologna process, leadership and management models.
• Being recognised among stakeholders as key influence
• Facilitating societal and economic change to knowledge economy
• Setting up joint recruitment models for students
• Establishing joint offshore programme models
Furthermore, the organisational set-up of activities has been changed with smaller
Steering Groups with Executive Board members or senior management staff for each of
the main areas and with project teams with representatives from all institutions involved in the given activity.
Likewise more emphasis has been put on communication and information about the ECIU both internally at the ECIU institutions and externally with regards to industry, other universities, policy-making bodies and the EU.
Read an in-depth description of the new focus areas
here:
