• Wednesday April 16th (Pre Conference Warsaw Universities Information Day)

• Thursday April 17th

• Friday April 18th

• Saturday April 19th (Post Conference Trips)

Wednesday, April 16th

Venue and registration University of Warsaw, Old Library, 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmiescie St. (see map) 

14:00- Registration
Warsaw Higher Education Information Day

15:00-18:00 General introduction followed by visits to Warsaw’s main universities.

19:00- Welcome reception by the Rector of the University of Warsaw (Kazimierz Palace)

Thursday, April 17th

8:00- Registration

9:00-9:10 Official opening: Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Tygielski,
Vice-Rector, University of Warsaw

9:10-9:35 Address by special guest Barbara Kudrycka,
Minister of Science and Higher Education

9:35-10:00 Bernd Waechter, Director, Academic Cooperation Association (ACA)
– The Importance of internationalization

10:00-10:25 Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw –
- The city as an academic centre – the role of municipal authorities in the process of the internationalization of higher education

10:25-10:50 Hans de Wit, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, UNICA
– The Internationalization of universities: specific challenges and opportunities for capital city universities

10:50-11:00 discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:45 Plenary session: How to attract new students and not lose your own?
Chair: prof. dr hab. Konstanty A. Wojtaszczyk, Vice-Rector of UW
Panelists:
German perspective – by Annette Julius, Director of DAAD Programmes
French perspective – by Jean-Kely Paulhan, Representative of CampusFrance Director General
Polish perspective – by Karol Musiol, Rector, Jagiellonian University

12:45-13:00 discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Special plenary session: Why and how national and international rankings can affect the institutions, national systems and geopolitics of higher education
Chair: Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES
Panelists:
– Gero Federkeil, CHE-Centre for Educational Development, Gutersloh (Germany)
– Liu Nian Cai, Director, Center for World-Class Universities, Jiao Tong U, Shanghai (China)
– Sholpan M. Kalanova, President, Euroasian Quality Assurance Network, Astana (Kazakhstan)
– Andrzej Kozminski, Rector, Leon Kozminski Academy, Warsaw (Poland)
– Alex Usher, Vice-President, Educational Policy Institute, Toronto (Canada).

15:30-16:00 discussion

16:00-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00 Daniel Obst, Director, Institute of International Education (New York)
The American program “Study Abroad” and Central Europe

19:30 – Conference Dinner by the Mayor of Warsaw
(Agricultural Library, the former Museum of Industry and Agriculture, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 66)

Friday, April 18th

Venue University of Warsaw, New Library, 56/60 Dobra St. (see map) 

9:00-10:30 Session: Exchange of effective practices and ideas.
Chair: Waldemar Siwinski, President of the “Perspektywy” Education Foundation

– Internationalization in the face of demographic change: student recruitment and its role in the upcoming decades
Uwe Brandenburg and Christian Berthold CHE (Germany)

– Towards mutual recognition of accreditation decisions
Rolf Heusser, Director, Swiss Center for Quality Assurance

– Cooperation between education, science and community (interactive presentation)
Hannu Janhunen, Kuopio Innovation Ltd. – Technology Centre Teknia Kuopio (Finland)

10:30-10:45 discussion

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:15 Plenary session: How to attract new students and not lose your own? (cont.)
Chair: Tadeusz Luty, Rector, Wrocław University of Technology
Panelists:
Austrian perspective – by Hubert Duerrstein, President of OAD (Austria)
Ukrainian perspective – by Michael Zgurovsky, Rector, NTUU “Kiev Politechnic Institute”
Czech perspective – by Vera Stastna, Ministry of Education

12:15-12:30 discussion

12:30-12:45 Coffee break

12:45-14:00 Concluding session – Lessons learnt from the outside world and internationalization at home
Moderator: Karol Musiol, Rector, Jagiellonian University
panel discussion with participation of speakers
(Andrzej Kozminski, Jan Sadlak, Bernd Waechter)

14:00-15:00 Lunch and goodbyes

Saturday, April 19th

Optional post-conference programme:
Day trip to Krakow (by train) – sightseeing and visit to the Jagiellonian University