International workshop

“International higher education cross-border cooperation in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region”

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

09.00 – 09.10   Welcome and introduction

• Carita Pettersson, Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia
• Gulnara Roll, University of Tartu Faculty of Social Sciences

09.10 – 11.00  Multilateral processes supporting interuniversity cooperation in the BSR (20 minutes presentations)

Chair - Sarunas Radvilavicius, Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Lithuania; and member of the Executive Committee of the AEBR

• Regional universities and university colleges as drivers for local and regional development in the Nordic countries – Sigrid Hedin, Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden
• AEBR Task Force of External Borders. AEBR Plauen Declaration on the cooperation in research and education -  Urpo Moisio, Task Force on External Borders of the Association of European Border Regions
• Nordic Dimensions Institute – Tiina Jauhiainen, Northern Dimension Research Center, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

11.00 – 11.30  Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00  Good practices at the level of universities
(15 minutes presentations)

• Finnish – Russian Innovation University – Jari Jupponen, Northern Dimensions Research Centre, Lappeenranta University of Technology
• Baltic Studies Programme of universities of Turku, Kaunas and Tartu – Viktor Trasberg, University of Tartu
• A network of Pskov Pedagogical University – Tallinn Technical University – Siauliai University – Daugavpils University – Eglė Virgailaitė Mečkauskaitė, Siauliai University, Lithuania
• Export of educational services in the Republic of Belarus - Alexandr Zhuk, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, Centre for international relations
• Discussion

13.00 – 14.00  Lunch

14.00 – 15.30  Good practices at the level of universities – continuation (15 minutes presentations)

• Cross-border cooperation of regional universities for the development of non – urbanised areas in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region  and New role of rural areas in the post-industrial society – Jonas Jasaitis, Head of Rural Development Research Centre, Siauliai University
• Transition Studies Programme of the University of Tartu – Kristian Nielsen, University of Tartu Eurocollege
• EuroFaculty - Pskov project as a good  practice of cooperation with the Baltic states‘ universities - Elena Naumova, Pskov State Polytechnic Institute
• Discussion

15.30 – 16.00  Coffee break

16.00 – 18.00  Ideas for the cooperation – discussion in 2 thematic groups

18.00 – 18.30  Plenary session. Presentations by the groups and conclusions

18.30   Reception and dinner, Atlantis