Come and hear about the future of student mobility and free flowing student data!

The EMREX project arranges its third EMREX seminar at the University of Bologna 30th November 2017

Why and how to participate

EMREX is the solution for electronic transfer of achievement records between higher education institutions in Europe – and beyond! After a successful field trial the network is ready to roll-on, and new partners are getting ready to join.

Come and see what EMREX can be used for, how it is connected to Erasmus and EU, and how it will be organized in the years to come.

In this third EMREX seminar titled “EMREX unleashed!” we will discuss the future of student mobility and show you, why you should join this importan and inevitable network.

Invitation as sent out (agenda on this page is more up to date)

Sign up here (registration is now closed, but you can inquire about free seats from your local EMREX partner)

Please note that the night before at 7.30 PM we will organize a guided citywalk in the beautiful old city centre of Bologna for everyone interested.

List of participants

Seminar Agenda

Logistics

The event will be held at the University of Bologna, in the Giorgio Prodi Lecture Hall located in the monumental complex of San Giovanni in Monte, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2-40126 Bologna.

The Seminar is free of charge, but participants are expected to cover their own travelling and accommodation expenses.

How to reach us:

• From the railway station: Bus nr. 11 and nr.30
• From the Guglielmo Marconi airport: Shuttle service Areobus BLQ or Taxi (about 15 to 20 minutes to the city centre). A Taxi will cost €15-20.

For further information on bus routes visit the TPER website.

Meetingpoint for the guided city walk 29th November 19.30:

We meet at Piazza del Nettuno (near the Neptun Fountain) where the citywalk starts at exactly 7.30 pm. It is an hour-long guided tour with a professional guide. After the tour at around 20.30 it will be followed by a welcome buffet at the Bar pasticceria Empero (jt’s located in Via Caprarie 4). This evening program is only for those who signed for the tour when registering.

Wifi at University of Bologna

University of Bologna uses eduroam. Instructions on how to use it can be found here.

For participants not able to use eduroam a temporary WiFi account can be arranged. Please ask about this at the register-table Thursday morning.

Hotels

Below is a list of hotels. and the number of rooms that have been reserved for the seminar. An important fair in Bologna is taking place at the same time, so it is important to book rooms early! Rooms are blocked (IN: 29/11 OUT:01/12) of course it’s possible to widen the period of stay (depending on the availability of each single hotel). It’s important to book within the deadline, otherwise neither rooms not prices are guaranteed. You can book personally to the mail address quoting (ref. CINECA MEETING):

1. HOTEL AL CAPELLO ROSSO: 5 Double rooms single occupancy (euro 115) + 5 Double (euro 160) – deadline 30/10/2017 – email: info@alcapellorosso.it

2. HOTEL AI PORTICI: 10 Double rooms single occupancy (euro 150) – deadline: 01/11/2017 – email: reservation@iporticihotel.com

3. HOTEL INTERNAZIONALE: 10 Double rooms sinle occupancy (94 euro) – deadline 14/11/2017 – email: internazionale@monrifhotels.it

Pros and Cons of Central Admission to Higher Education Institutions in Poland

University of Warsaw together with MUCI (Consortium of Polish Higher Education Institutions) organizes a conference on central admission for higher education in Poland.

The conference will take place in Warsaw on November 14th, 2017 in Pałac Kazimierzowski, Senate meeting room, second floor, at the central campus of the University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warsaw, Poland. The map is available at this address (number 1 on the map).

Participants are kindly asked to register at the registration page. Registration is free of charge with coffee and lunch included, but participants are expected to pay for their own travelling costs. The number of participants is litmited due to the size of the meeting room to app. 60-70 persons. The conference is in the first place directed to the vice rectors for student affairs of Polish higher education institutions and heads of admission offices. Especially authorities from the Mazovia district are heartly welcome.

The main purpose of the conference is to start discussion among authorities from Polish HEIs, representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and other stakeholders on the possibility to organize in Poland central admission for higher education, architecture of such amission and the roadmap.

The good starting pont to such discussion would be to hear about the experience of other countries, especially those which participate with UW and MUCI in the EMREX project, which aims to support digital transfer of student achievements and in such way easy delivery of trustful data to admission systems.

We invited experts from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark to share with Poland their experience expertise in business processes involved in central admission to higher education . The experts will tell us how those processes are organized in each country, how the central admission came to live, was this governmetal decision or rather bottom up initiative of the institutions themselves. They will talk about challenges which may be encountered on the way and will share with the audience their personal opinions on pros and cons of the central admission. The information on IT support for the process will also be mentioned.

The presentations will be followed by the panel discussion with the invited guests and the audience.

Agenda

09.30-10.30 Coffee and registration, time for talks in the lobby or short trips around campus.

10.30-10.40 Welcome words by the hosts (Prof. Jolanta Choińska-Mika, Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Teaching

10.40-11.00 Why is this a good time to start discussion about central admission in Poland (Prof. Przemysław Korytkowski, advisory board for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education)

11.00-11.30 Central admission in Norway (Geir Vangen – CERES, Univeristy of Oslo)

11.30-12.00 Central admission in Sweden (Gunilla Hammarström, John Evans – Swedish Council of Education)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.30 Central admission in Finland – part 1 (Marcus Caselius – Finnish National Agency for Education) Part 2 (Eva Raudasoja – University of Oulu)

13.30 Central admission in Denmark (Tine Bjerregaard, Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education)

14.00-14.30 Coffee

14.30-15.00 How Emrex may help in IT support for central admission (Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz, Geir Vangen)

15.00-16.30 Panel Discussion run by Prof. P. Korytkowski, panelists – presenters from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Prof. J. Choińska-Mika, Prof. M. Kręglewski (director of MUCI), Prof. S. Jackowski (KEJN)

Some photos from the conference.

You may contact organizers directly writing email to usos (at) usos.edu.pl.

Short brochure with the invitaion is available at Invitation-2017-11-14.

The second EMREX Stakeholder Forum was held in Helsinki 1 February 2017.

The participants list is here and tist is the Emrex Stakeholder Forum Summary of the event.

The Meeting was at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Meritullinkatu 1 in Helsinki.

The EMREX Stakeholder Forum is set up to ensure that our project is aligned with the needs of the higher education institutions as well as with other similar initiatives and collaborations across Europe. The Stakeholder Forum provides you with the opportunity to make your voice heard and have a say on the work we are doing, and the way we are doing it.

Topics to be discussed in the EMREX Stakeholder forum:

• Should we be satisfied with our results so far? Is the project meeting its goals, or is there something you feel is missing that we could still add?
• What can we do to get more students to ise EMREX before the Field Trial is over? This has turned out to be the most difficult part of the field trial. There is very limited students exchange between the Nordic countries (including Italy)
• What should the future of EMREX look like? Should we apply for an extension to the project to expand the network within the EU? Should we co-operate with countries outside EU? Opening dialogue has been started with the US, China, and Australia. Are there any other countries oudside of Europe that we should focus on? Join forces with Erasmus Without Papers (and/or other similar projects)? Add EMREX to admission systems

Working document.

Agenda for the Stakeholder Forum:

Dinner

The dinner on 31.1 is at 19.00 in Atelje Finne, for those signed up for it.

Atelje Finne, Arkandiankatu 14
http://www.ateljefinne.fi/

– The table is booked for 19.00

Logistics:

The Stakeholder Forum will eb at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Meritullinkatu 1 in downtown Helsinki. Just a couple of minutes walk from Senaatintori.

Hotels:

Please see the seminar page for suggestions

The meals and forum itself will be at our expense, but as we are a publicly funded project, you will have to cover your own travel expenses and accommodation