The next MODERN Conference on Funding which will take place on 29 January in London and the survey on "Training needs for leadership and management professions in European Higher Education Institutions".

Further information on the MODERN Conference on Funding (London, 29 January 2010) & the online registration are available on the MODERN website : www.highereducationmanagement.eu.

Members of MODERN associate partner organisations (so, members of UNICA Network) can also register at a reduced rate.

MODERN is a three-year EU-funded structural project in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme which is developed under the leadership of ESMU, in a consortium with 9 core partners and 26 associate partner European associations and academic providers of higher education management (HEM) training programmes.

For further information visit : www.highereducationmanagement.eu.

The online questionnaire of the mapping the field exercise is now available on the MODERN website : http://www.highereducationmanagement.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205&Itemid=130.
The questionnaire is a survey into the needs for higher education management training at European level.
All UNICA members and contacts are invited to fill out the questionnaire.
All respondents can subscribe to receive a full copy of the report and results of this survey.

DEAN 2009 Conference Announcement.
Universidade de Lisboa, 19-20 November 2009.
"Driving regional innovation in times of global crisis"
Further information.

L’Institut MEDEA est partenaire du Mouvement Européen International dans la préparation du Congrès qui se tiendra à Valence du 19 au 21 novembre 2009 sur les thématiques de l’Education et des Migrations. Dans le but de collecter vos avis, propositions et expériences dans les domaines de l’Education et des Migrations dans le cadre euro-méditerranéen, un blog a été mis en place. Pour plus d’information sur le Congrès de Valence ainsi que pour réagir ou partager vos expériences sur les thèmes de l’Education et des Migrations, visitez le blog à l’adresse suivante : http://valenciablog.europeanmovement.eu/.

www.annalindhfoundation.be.

Adoc Talent Management is the first Europpean Consultancy Recruitment Agency specialized in PhD. It aims at finding the adequacy between Companies' success and candidates' professional growth, with a large panel of services and a transverse and trans-disciplinary positioning.

For further information, visit : http://www.adoc-tm.com/eng/.

All information about the project can be found on www.u-map.eu.

Frans van Vught has recently edited a book: "Mapping the Higher Education Landscape : Towards a European classification of Higher Education".

The book reviews existing one-dimensional international rankings and suggests a new multi-dimensional approach to map higher education institutions and create effective transparency in the diversity of higher education systems in Europe. Further information on the book.

NEW ACA publication on 100 academic networks world-wide.

A visible sign of the growing cooperation in higher education world-wide is the increasing number of associations, consortia, networks, etc. in the field. Their aims, history and activities, however, are less tangible for outsiders. Why were they founded? Who and where are their members? How can they be contacted? What do they do, i.e. what is their lifeblood ?

ACA Handbook of International Associations in Higher Education

Alliance Abroad Group and the Association of International Development and Exchange (AIDE) offer professional internship abroad for students this summer.

They are currently enrolling for summer internships in Argentina, Australia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ireland, Peru, South Africa, Spain and the USA.

Fields of placement include but are not limited to: Accounting/ Finance, Agriculture, Archeology, Architecture, Art, Business, Community Development, Culinary Arts, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Fashion, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Hospitality, Human Resources, International Relations, IT/Graphic Design, Journalism/Media, Law, Non-profit, Sales /Marketing, Social Work, Sport/Athletics, Tourism, Zoology/Veterinary.

Internships are from 1 to 18 months, and may include cultural activities and language lessons. All of the internship placements provide a guaranteed position prior to departure, strong local and personal support, paperwork and visa documentation, orientations and travel medical insurance.

To view the details of the internship programs in Europe, Asia, Central & South America, Australia and South Africa, please visit : AIDE and contact Vanessa NOEL at Vanessa@aideabroad.org.

To view the details of the internship program in the USA, please visit : Alliance Abroad Group and contact Claudia Reichstein at Creichstein@allianceabroadcom.

Please contact Vanessa Noel or Claudia Reichstein, for further information :

Internships Abroad :

Vanessa Noel
AIDE
Phone : +1 (512) 904 1121
Fax : +1 (512) 233 5848
E-mail : vanessa@aideabroad.org
www.aideabroad.org

Internships in the USA :

Claudia Reichstein
Alliance Abroad Group
Phone : +49 2234 692653
Fax : +49 2234 692654
E-mail : creichstein@allianceabroad.com
www.allianceabroad.com/internship

MODERN Conference Announcement - Brussels, 9 June 2009 (pdf document)

The MODERN conference on governance in higher education institutions is the first in a series of five conferences which will be organised by the MODERN European platform in higher education modernisation.

MODERN is a three-year EU-funded structural project in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme which is developed under the leadership of ESMU, in a consortium with 9 core partners and 26 associate partner European associations and academic providers of higher education management (HEM) training programmes.

For further information visit : www.highereducationmanagement.eu.

Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) Summer School is a certificate program, aimed at bringing together world-renowned scholars, academicians and policy-makers with ADA students and faculty to examine and gain better understanding of issues of global importance and their practical application.

The 2009 Summer School will be dedicated to the study of "Energy Politics and Economics." Upon completion of the program, the participants will be issued a certificate by the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy and the Cambridge Center for Energy Studies.

Program Description : full program is available at http://ada.edu.az/summerschool.

The University of Chichester is interested in joining an Erasmus Intensive Programme partnership. Chichester is a university of approximately 5,500 students located on the South Coast of England and has recently been voted the Top Modern University in the UK for student experience by Times Higher Education.

Chichester specialises in Business Studies; Childhood and Youth; Counselling; Dance; Education; English Literature; Fine Art; History; Language Studies; Media; Music; Performing Arts; Social Work and Social Care; Sport; Theology; and Tourism Management.

If any partnerships are looking for an additional partner in any of these subject areas, please contact :

Robb Cunningham
Collaborative Programmes Officer (European/International Developments)
University of Chichester
r.cunningham@chi.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1243 816218
Fax: +44 (0)1243 816080

Baku, Azerbaijan

APPLICATION DEADLINE is March 30, 2009

Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA), School of International Affairs, seeks applicants for the Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Affairs (MADIA) Program with strong academic background, professional experience, demonstrated potential for growth and clear commitment to serve in the field of international affairs. English language proficiency is a prerequisite for admission.

MADIA is a two-year graduate program that requires full time study in residence. Designed for both Azerbaijani and international students, this program explores political, academic, social and economic issues with strong offerings over several disciplines. The coursework allows students to understand today's pressing international issues with a perspective that values both past and future.

All prospective students need to complete online ADA Online Application to be considered for admissions. ADA Online Application accelerates the application process and provides students with the ability to submit most of the required documents online, track their application status, schedule a date for an interview, accept or decline an offer and much more.

Read more at http://www.ada.edu.az/admissions.

The 2009 EU Studies Fair organised By European Voice will take place in Brussels, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Rogier) on 7 February 2009. It will be the 10th annual EU Studies Fair hosted by European Voice. It is a one-day fair and workshop bringing together prospective students, universities and academic institutions offering postgraduate programmes in EU and International Relations, Business and Law. Every year around 700 visitors attend the event to meet with over 50 of Europe's leading academic institutions and EU institutions - European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), EU Publication Office and Jean Monnet Action.

More information on EU Studies Fair 2009 is available at : www.eustudiesfair.com.

Proceedings of the FINPIN 2008 Conference, Promoting Entrepreneurship by Universities, is now published. The proceedings in this volume bring together a great selection of papers presented in the 2nd FINPIN Conference, illustrating the many different viewpoints that need to be considered when discussing the broad area of entrepreneurship within the higher education sector.

The Proceedings is now available at 49 euros (excl. postal charges).
For further information about the Proceedings and for orders, please visit www.finpin.com.

The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund invites your University to nominate the Holberg International Memorial Prize for outstanding work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology. The prize for 2008 is NOK 4,5 million (approx. 570.000/716.000 US Dollar), and was established by the Norwegian Government in 2003.

Letters of nomination must be sent to us by 20 January 2009.

Holberg Prize Laureates :
2008: Fredric R. Jameson
2007: Ronald Dworkin
2006: Shmuel N Eisenstadt
2005: Jürgen Habermas
2004: Julia Kristeva

How to nominate ?
Scholars holding a senior position at universities and other research institutions within the above mentioned academic fields are entitled to nominate candidates for the Holberg Prize. The Holberg Prize's Academic Committee will base its assessment on the letters of nomination which must state the reasons for the nomination (2 to 3 pages). Letters should also contain a brief CV for the candidate and suggest referees who know the scholar and his/her work. Nominations are strictly confidential.

For more information : http://holbergprisen.no/HP_prisen/en_hp_utlysning.html

Please contact Ms Trine Kleven, Project Manager in Holberg Prize, if you have questions : trine.kleven@holbergprisen.no.

CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS 100th ANNIVERSARY
To be held in Imatra, Finland, 29.1. -1.2. 2009

The Winter School of Semiotics will be organized by the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Imatra and open to any semiotician interested in the topics.

Further information in the official presentation.

"Following the successful two RS3G meetings in Rome and in Dublin attended by nearly 60 people from 15 countries, we are very happy to send out invitations for the next workshop to be held in Stuttgart on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 December 2008.

On December 10 a steering committee meeting will take place, working on a more formal structure for future work of RS3G. To this first steering committee meeting all participants of the first two meetings are invited who want to contribute to the organizational work behind RS3G. The workgroup should afterwards decide on a permanent steering committee of 5 to 10 persons.

On December 11 the Stuttgart workshop will take place. It aims to give an update to relevant developments around RS3G and to work on the different focus areas identified in the Dublin meeting.

Please find a detailed overview on the workshop programme and the registration form. More information on the pre-workshop dinner event on the evening of 10 December will follow closer to the event. A hotel list and directions will be provided upon registration.

In Dublin a range of possible focus areas for the future work of RS3G were identified. In an online poll (still open to all participants of the first two workgroup meetings) four of them are currently the most "popular" ones :

• European Learner Mobility
• Graduation documents (European Diploma Supplement and other)
• Description of course units / unit catalogue
• Course equivalency / matching

Starting from the results of the poll the steering committee and the workgroup will define four focus areas for the next workshops. Aim of the Stuttgart workshop is also to identify areas were first practical results can be achieved.

Please feel free to forward this email to others who you think would find it of relevance and who could usefully contribute.

If you have any queries, please contact any of the three organisers :

Manuel Dietz, unisolution, Germany
velay@unisolution.eu
+49 711 2535 9160

Jonathan Dempsey, Digitary, Ireland
jonathan.dempsey@digitary.net
+353 87 8515508

Simone Ravaioli, Kion, Italy
sravaioli@kion.it
+39 051 6111411

We look forward to seeing you in Stuttgart!

Very best wishes,

Manuel Dietz"

"Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a unique conference on FP7 here in Budapest, the new home to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
FP7 Untold Stories II is a conference that will unveil a new side to FP7. We have invited experts to come and share their stories, their successes and failures with the participants of the conference. Numerous organizations will be represented at the conference and it would be great if you could send a delegate as well.
More information on the conference is available in the attached brochure.

If you have any questions, or would like information on how you can display and present your running projects at the conference, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Barbara

p.s. You may receive a discounted rate to the conference by filling out our questionnaire on international trainings at http://www.eutrainingsite.com/questionnaire.php.

Ms. Barbara Somlai
barbara.somlai@eutrainingsite.com
www.eutrainingsite.com
www.fp7untoldstories.com"

"Dear Colleague,

I am attaching the final programme for the prestigious European-American University Forum Conference which Liverpool John Moores University is hosting from 16th to 20th November.

As you will see the programme includes eminent speakers from the US & UK and provides a unique opportunity to foster international partnerships as well as to visit our fast-changing city of culture.

I hope you find the programme of interest and that you or others in your institution will take this opportunity to attend in order to meet and share ideas with colleagues from the US.

In addition to the macro institutional leadership issues you will see that there is also a subject networking session because some of the US participants are particularly keen to meet colleagues from the following subject groups during the networking session on Monday 17th : business (marketing, strategy, computer information systems, management, business law, accounting), criminal justice, history, computer science, art history and English.

If you would like to attend the conference please complete the attached registration form and return to Cherrill Edge at Liverpool John Moores University either by post or c.edge@ljmu.ac.uk - tel. 231 5264.

Please pass on this programme to relevant people who may be interested in attending.

Please note that partial attendance can be accommodated.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE BY 4TH NOVEMBER 2008 AT THE LATEST.

Regards
Professor Diana Burton B.Ed, M.Ed, PhD, FRSA
Pro Vice Chancellor (Delivery)

For further information, please contact Cherrill Edge : C.Edge@ljmu.ac.uk."

Due to the expansion of its activities and the recent acquisition of several new projects, ESMU will be recruiting one (possibly two) EU project managers and an administrative/events assistant.

Among these new projects will be the creation of a European platform on higher education management with high level conferences on university governance, quality issues, internationalization, innovation and regional development. Building on previous expertise, Benchmarking will also feature highly in several new projects, with the opportunity for HEIs to join in benchmarking groups on university governance, lifelong learning, university-enterprise cooperation, curriculum reforms and elearning in an initial phase.

In the framework of an ERASMUS MUNDUS project ESMU will also design a range of activities for policy makers and decision-makers in American, Australian and Latin American Higher Education Institutions.

Further information is available on the ESMU website : http://www.esmu.be.

We also regularly welcome trainees in ESMU who gain experience in both EU project management and higher education policy developments.
Interested students are invited to apply for our traineeship position currently open.

Dear colleague,

We warmly welcome your presentations on research and development to the 2009 Learning by Developing - New Ways to Learn International Conference at Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Finland on February 12th-13th, 2009.

The conference focuses on Transformative Teaching in Higher Education with interesting keynote and panel discussions on the topic "Teaching or Learning?" and workshops with four themes: teaching and guidance, learning environments, leadership, and learning culture.

Please find programme, submission details and further information on the Second Call for Papers.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15th, 2008.
Further information also available at www.laurea.fi > Seminars and Conferences.

We are looking forward to meeting you next February.