MODERN CONFERENCE "GOVERNANCE"
9 June 2009 in Brussels, Belgium

The first MODERN conference will take place in Brussels on Tuesday 9 June 2009.

The conference will be based on an executive report on the state of the art of governance reforms in European higher education institutions produced by CHEPS, the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente, MODERN project partner. The report will be made available to all registered participants prior to the conference. It will build on existing literature, current and previous work on governance issues in higher education, including a major report produced for the European Commission in 2006 based on a survey in 32 European countries.

The conference will start with a networking dinner on 8 June. On 9 June the conference will be split into morning plenary sessions with key senior level speakers, i.e. policy makers and decision-makers from the European Commission, academia and the private sector, and afternoon highly specialised workshops on key themes linked to governance issues.

The conference will be an opportunity for the presentation of the very first results of the MODERN mapping the field exercise on the supply and the demand for HEM programmes.

The underlying aim is to gather decision-makers in higher education institutions and training providers for a joint debate and mutual learning on governance issues and the new skills, leadership and management needed to support modern higher education management. The target group is university leaders, decision-makers and providers of HEM programmes.