6th UNICA-SGroup-Compostela Joint Workshop

The 6th UNICA-SGroup-Compostela Group Joint Workshop: Rethinking competence development for students' employability: practical solutions for Europe took place on 14 April 2016  and was hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Pleinlaan 5 - Karel van Miert building).

• Download the "save the date" announcement

• Download the programme (as of 12/04/2016)

• List of participants (as of 13/04/2016)

• Practical guide & recommended hotels

• Additional practical information following the Brussels attacks (as of 13/04/2016)

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PRESENTATIONS

• Ensuring future proof graduates: global employability in European perspective - Keynote presentation by Nanette RIPMEESTER, Founder and Director of Expertise in Labour Mobility 
• garagErasmus Check-In Europe platform by Nicola FILIZOLA, Vice President EU Affairs of garagErasmus 
• The Employability Points Scheme: An Innovative Approach towards Enhancing Students' Skills and Industry Collaboration, by Matt COOK, Employability Points Officer, University of Kent
• Career Management Information System: New Possibilities for Student Career Management Services and Graduates Career Tracking by Sigita KILKUTĖ, Career Counsellor, Career and Counselling Unit, Vilnius University 
• Innovative motivational profiling to match students to colleges, programmes and jobs by Christophe GEERKENS, Partner at SommerYeager (www. sommeryeager.com)
• E2: eStudiante x emprendedor – student and entrepreneur – entrepreneurship training programme by Kerstin MAIER, Executive Assistant to the Director of Santander International Entrepreneurship Center (CISE), University of Cantabria
• Teaching technology entrepreneurship at VUB by Marc GOLDCHSTEIN, Professor and Project Leader of "Technology Entrepreneurship", Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Keynote presentation: Building strategic partnerships between universities, business and alumni networks by Ingrid LIETEN, Director of LifeTech Valley, former Minister of Innovation in the Flemish Gorvenment 

CONSULTATION ON STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES AT EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES

On the occasion of the 6th Joint Workshop, UNICA, SGroup, and Compostela Group have launched consultation on student employability strategies and practices at European Universities. We would like to invite our members to respond to a few questions on existing practices in promoting employability, entrepreneurship, and profiling students’ competences with the needs of the job market. The survey contains 10 general multiple choice questions and will take you less than 5 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is available under this link and the new deadline for submitting your answers is Wednesday 4 May 2016.

The results obtained from member universities of the 3 university networks will be used to formulate recommendations and investigate the possibilities of joint collaboration to enhance the impact of Higher Education on graduates' employability and their successful entry into to the labour market.

BACKGROUND

Since 2009, three European Universities’ Networks, SGroup, UNICA, and Compostela Group organise annual one-day events designed to meet their member institutions' needs for latest and up-to-date information, good practices, and networking & cooperation opportunities. The 2016 Workshop will be sixth in a series of joint events and will follow "International University-Enterprise Cooperation for Adult Education" (2009), "Successful Management of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes" (2011), "Strategies for Successful Europe-China Collaboration in Research and Education" (2012), "Exploring academic collaboration between European and Sub-Saharan universities" (2013), and "Integration and Promotion of Administrative Staff Training at Universities across Europe" (IMOTION Conference, 2014).