UNICA General Assembly 2019
The 29th UNICA General Assembly & Rectors Seminar “Capital cities’ ecosystems and university structures to foster entrepreneurship and innovation” was kindly hosted by King’s College London, 28-29 November 2019 and gathered 84 participants from UNICA member universities.
During the General Assembly, UNICA re-elected Professor Luciano Saso as President for 4 years and elected the new Steering Committee for 2020-2021. Read more about the election…
- General Assembly & Rectors Seminar programme
- Agenda of the Administrative General Assembly
- List of participants
- Speakers’ Biographies
Pictures of the event
- Rectors seminar (Photographer David Tett)
- Group photos (Photographer David Tett)
- Flickr album
Presentations administrative General Assembly
UNICA activity report 2016 – 2019, by Professor Luciano SASO, UNICA President
UNICA Work Plan 2020, by Professor Luciano SASO, UNICA President
Presentations at the Rectors Seminar
Keynote speech by Edward BYRNE, Principal, King’s College London
STATION F: the world’s largest startup campus from the inside, by Roxanna VARZA, Director of Station F, Paris and Maxine ROPER, co-founder of Connecting Food, Paris
Session I – Linking universities to their local ecosystems
- Julie DEVONSHIRE, OBE, Director of King’s Entrepreneurship Institute
- Developing an Investor Community, by Hayley ARD, King’s Outreach Manager and investor Relations
- Spaces for Entrepreneurship, by Anthony MELLALIEU MRICS, Development Director, UrbanEst Student Accommodation
- London venture crawl, by Rachel STOCKEY, Head of Entrepreneurial Skills, King’s Entrepreneurship Institute
Session II – The role of universities as strategic drivers of entrepreneurship, innovation and societal engagement
- Sebastien OURSELIN, Head, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences
- Andrew J DEEKS, President, University College Dublin
- The university and the city: An Oslo love story, by Svein STØLEN, Rector, University of Oslo
Contact Persons/IRO meeting (28 November 2019, 14:30 – 16:00)
- Meeting agenda
- Annex 1: Evaluation of the IRO meeting 2019 & results of the survey on the topics for the IRO meeting 2020
- Annex 2: Draft programme proposal for the IRO meeting 2020 by the University of Rome Tor Vergata
- List of participants
Contact
If you have any questions about the UNICA General Assembly, please contact Laura Brossico (UNICA Secretariat): office@unica-network.eu.Dates: Thursday, 28 November, 2019 to Friday, 29 November, 2019
28 & 29 Nov. 2019
London, United Kingdom
King’s College London
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