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Third ALISIOS workshop

Enhancing recognition of degrees and credits between Brazil and Europe: Implications for collaboration, mobility and internationalisation

 

25 April 2015, Cuiaba, Brazil

Description: The third ALISIOS workshop is a one-day event taking place in the context of the FAUBAI annual conference in Cuiaba, Brazil. The ALISIOS project is an Erasmus Mundus project that is facilitating dialogue between Brazilian and European universities, agencies and governments regarding higher education and research cooperation. It is examining in particular the important impacts that the Brazilian Science Without Borders (SwB) programme is having on Brazilian and European university cooperation and internationalisation more generally. The third workshop tackles the topic of recognition, both of degrees and of credit mobility, as this complex theme is essential for ‘flexibilising’ and internationalising the higher education sector. As many problems still persist between Brazilian and European universities, the workshop intends to provide a number of important case studies, tools and considerations for how universities and systems can improve recognition procedures and how governments, agencies and other networks can support this endeavour.

Programme:

8:30        Welcome and introduction to ALISIOS and to the workshop

(FAUBAI and University of Coimbra)

9:15       Opening speech: Why recognition matters%3F Implications for rendering higher education more flexible, open and international (Howard Davies, Senior Expert, EUA, BFUG working group on Recognition and ad-hoc working group on the revision of the ECTS Users’ Guide)

 

10:00     Brief break

Part 1:  Degree recognition: Frameworks, tools and approaches

10:30     Plenary presentations (20 min. each) and panel/group discussion

Speaker 1: Frameworks for enhancing recognition: National and regional qualifications frameworks, recognition conventions and their impacts (Allan Bruun Pedersen, Vice-chair of LRC Committee and Head of Danish NARIC)

Speaker 2: Degree recognition obstacles in the Europe-Brazil Context (Prof. Leandro Tessler -International Education Specialist and Former Head of the International Office of University of Campinas)

Discussion

Speaker 3: Degree recognition – strategies, successes and challenges from the university perspective  (example of how one institution manages degree recognition procedures, how this relates to their international objectives and what frameworks and national/ regional resources or networks assist this process) – Giovanna Filippini, University of Bologna

Speakers 4 :Bi-lateral approaches: Advancing recognition through university association agreements: Example of the CRUP-ANDIFES approach and current negotiations

Prof. Manual Assunção, Vice-president of the Portuguese Rectors’ Conference (CRUP)/Rector of the University of Aveiro and Prof. Vladimir di Lorio from Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais/ Vice-President of ANDIFES Council for International Relations

Discussion

Chair: Joaquim Carvalho, Vice-Rector for International Relations, University of Coimbra, Portugal

12:30     Lunch

Part 2:  Credit recognition: Advancing institutional partnership and incentivizing mobility

14:00     Plenary presentations and panel discussion

Speaker 1: ECTS and its global application (How European credit transfer tools are serving European universities in their global cooperation) – Pablo Javier Beneitone, University of Deusto, Spain/Tuning Latin America

Speaker 2: Credit recognition and mobility in Brazil: Reflections from Science without Borders (Are credits of Brazilian students returning to Brazil being recognized%3F Is this important to Brazilian universities and to students%3F Should it be%3F) - (Prof. Aderson Nascimento, Deputy Head of the International Office of Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and Douglas Peron, Civil Engineering Student, Federal University of Mato Grosso)

Chair: Renée Zicman, FAUBAI

Discussion

15:15     Panel discussion: Fostering institutional partnerships through mobility - The importance of credit recognition

 Prof. José Celso Freire Junior, Associate Provost for International Affairs at UNESP/President of FAUBAI

 Prof. Vladimir di Lorio from Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais

Martina Schulze, Director of DAAD Brazil office

Sinead Lucy, Association of Irish Universities (IAU)

                Chair: Howard Davies, EUA

16:15     Concluding session/discussion

• What have we learned%3F Which tools, structures and good practices can universities take away from this workshop%3F What can agencies and organisations take away%3F What can governments take away%3F
• What is specifically relevant to SwB going forward%3F

Chair: Joaquim Carvalho, Vice-Rector for International Relations, University of Coimbra, Portugal

16:45     Close