Summit on Responsible Internationalisation
- Main event times: Friday 28 November, 08:30 - 14:30 (CET)
- Location: Central Brussels
This event, which follows our three themed workshops held in 2024 and 2025, brings together a wider range of European Universities Alliances, alongside our own Global Partners, policymakers, and stakeholder organisations, to support consideration on the challenges, opportunities, policies and practices that the Higher Education Sector is currently confronting around Responsible Internationalisation.
Outline Programme (full version of programme can be found here):
| 8:30 – 08:55 |
Arrival Coffee |
| 08:55 – 09:00 |
WelcomeMattia Bellotti (Secretary-General EUTOPIA) |
| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Keynote speech
Signe Ratso (Deputy Director General for Innovation, Prosperity and International Cooperation) |
| 09:30 – 10:30 |
Panel 1: Responsible PartnershipsChair: Sarah Van Der Westhuizen (Director of the Centre for Global Engagement, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)) Ioana Dewandeler (Policy Officer for Higher Education, DG EAC) Albin Gaunt (Policy Manager, STINT)(3)Anne-Laurence Pastorini (Project Manager, Union of the Universities of the Mediterranean) Louise Kallora-Stimpson (Director EU Office, British Council |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45 - 11.40 |
Panel 2: Responsible Research
Chair: George Christou (Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Europe, and Professor of European Politics and Security, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)) Mirko Van Muijen (Policy Officer for International Cooperation, DG Research and Innovation) Sean Rowlands (Senior Policy Officer, Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities) Mary Mullholland (Research and Innovation Attaché, New Zealand Embassy) Cornelia Malherbe (Director Research Contracts and Compliance, Research Development, Stellenbosch University: South Africa) |
| 11.45 - 12.45 |
Panel 3: Responsible Knowledge Transfer
Chair: Roland Hinterholzl (Rector’s Delegate for Coordination of the EUTOPIA Alliance and Professor Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)) Federica Baldan (Legal and Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation) Samuel Partey (Head of Unit and Regional Advisor for Science, UNESCO) Wacim Ben Yahya (Head of Technology Transfer Office, Université International de Rabat) Júlia Seixas (Pro-Rector, NOVA University of Lisbon and President of SDSN Portugal)
|
| 12.50 - 13.45 |
Roundtable: Towards a Joint Operational Strategy for Responsible Internationalisation in European University Alliances
Convenor: Mattia Bellotti (Secretary, General, EUTOPIA) |
| 13.30 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30 |
Close |