Nic Mitchell reports on moves by Ministers to encourage greater student mobility to strengthen the European Higher Education Area. Student mobility was high on the agenda at the 2012 Bologna Process Ministerial Conference held in Bucharest at the end of April. Held every three years, these ‘summits’ are designed to
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Feb 22, 2012 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
EUPRIO President Opens Polish University Conference
The President of EUPRIO, Paolo Pomati opened the annual conference of the association of Polish University Communicators (Stowarzyszenie PR I Promocji Uczelni Polskich, PROM), which took place in Poznan and Opalenica on 16-18 January, with a keynote speech focused on the mission and the activities of EUPRIO and on the
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Feb 12, 2012 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
EUPRIO Pres Paolo Pomati appointed to EngageU Awards
The President of EUPRIO, Paolo Pomati (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy), has been appointed as one of the 9 international judges of the “EngageU Awards”. As part of the European Commission funded, ULab project, the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford is organizing an online competition to identify
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Jan 15, 2012 | Post by: Atticus 11 Comments
In memory of Jorma Laakkonen
We started this new year with very sad news. Our colleague and friend Jorma Laakkonen, former national representative of Finland, organizer of many conferences, is no longer with us. He passed away on the first day of the year, after suffering from cancer for a while. In the past years,
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Jan 15, 2012 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
When I Grow up I Want to Be a Scientist
10 Years of Children’s University at University of Innsbruck The project “Young Uni” at the University of Innsbruck was launched in September 2001 – the first of its kind in German speaking countries. This year it celebrates its tenth year with the slogan “Setting out into New Worlds”. Read more…
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Dec 12, 2011 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
Tinker, Tailor, Journalist, Researcher
We all like to wear many hats, but I wonder whether in the future research and journalism won’t be standard skills that every person learns regardless of their profession? Today, a person can claim that they are one or the other, largely because knowledge is still locked up in ‘ivory
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Dec 02, 2011 | Post by: Atticus 1 Comments
Atticus’ first blog
Hello EUPRIOans! Welcome to your new website! For those whom I have not yet met, my name is Atticus Mullikin and I’m the not-so-new EUPRIO web content manager. I work at Maastricht University for Denis Ancion (whom some of you might know from his publicity stills ?). I’m an American
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Nov 25, 2011 | Post by: Atticus 2 Comments
EUPRIO Belgium meets to discuss conference theme
On 9 December, EUPRIO Belgium will meet in Brussels. Among the many topics the Belgium meeting will tackle, there will be discussion of the sub-theme for the EUPRIO conference 2012 “Involving the Community” in the context of member-institutions KU Leuven and Universiteit Antswerpen. A report will be compiled with the
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Nov 16, 2011 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
EUPRIO members interviewed in science communication study
A few weeks ago the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft edited a book with a Delphi study about challenges, trends, chances and risks of science communication. Two of the 30 German specialists interviewed for the study for science communications are EUPRIO members Dr. Josef König (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Dr. Toni
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Oct 30, 2011 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
Partners
From EUPRIO President Paolo Pomati During the recent Prague conference, seeking new partners was a strong part of the new EUPRIO strategy. Our principal targets are the other European organisations that share our objectives and cover the same issues – higher education in particular. Partners will help us to gain
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