The core conference programme, which starts on Thursday afternoon, 17 September, contains over 100 sessions covering a wide variety of topics currently affecting international education. Attendance is included in the conference fee and pre-registration is not required.

ERASMUS networks are communities of universities working in the same field. They are ‘think tanks’ on the future of higher education in a given discipline (eg history or music) or theme (eg lifelong learning or university management). Some networks are very influential and set the standards in matters such as curricular development, quality enhancement and innovation, whilst others are less well-known. Coordinators from two very successful networks will share their good and bad experiences with participants, in the hope that they will feel inspired to join a network or make an application for grant support in early 2010 .

Chair: Filip Van Depoele, European Commission DG Education and Culture, Belgium

Speaker: Maria-Luisa Garcia Minguez, Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, EACEA, Belgium
Speaker: Nadine Burquel, ESMU, Belgium (for the MODERN network)
Speaker: Martin Prchal, AEC European Association of Conservatoires, The Netherlands