EURASHE Workshop “Professional Higher Education institutions and businesses: stronger interaction for greater impact in Europe” marks the end of the series of events on the Future of education which took place in the last quarter this year. Stephane Lauwick, President of EURASHE in his welcome speech shared with participants the findings from the 29th Annual Conference which took the last month in Budapest. The discussions of the two days Conference suggest that the Professional Higher Education institutions blur the frontiers between education and research, integrate the regional and the fundamental and develop holistic approaches, interacting with a large spectrum of institutions and private stakeholders. By doing so, they become not only more efficient at teaching and fostering innovation, but also allowing the future young professionals to better understand the world around them. This is particularly relevant considering the rapidly-changing labour markets whereby new jobs demanding new skills appear every month.

 

Businesses seek better conditions for creating more jobs
 

The introduction was followed by the keynote speeches of representatives from the European Commission and businesses. Mrs Victoria Petrova presented European Commission’s ongoing economic policies in relation to future skills development and employment, she also addressed a need to create suitable legal and economic conditions which would help businesses to generate new job opportunities in Europe. The presentation was followed by the voices of the private sector - Altran and AquaFilSlo which introduced their business models, current interactions and future expectations from the professional higher education institutions. Brussels based association Feani representative provided the views and current challenges of the engineering sector.

 

More openness for better PHEIs and businesses collaboration
 

As a natural follow up of sectors’ expectations from each other, EURASHE announced its willingness to open its structures-the Committee for a Strategic Advice and Working groups- to the businesses and its representatives. From now on all the private sector representatives can apply to attend EURASHE meetings and, therefore, receive the most updated findings in the field of Lifelong learning, Quality assurance, Research and Innovation. 

Being part of the Committee for a Strategic Advice businesses’ representatives will be able to have a strategic role in contributing to the development of EURASHE structures, setting and improving organisational priorities and activities.

The event was followed by the annual EURASHE Summer networking cocktail hosted by Erasmusogeschool Brussels. 

Please find photos of the Workshop.

Presentation of the European Commission’s representative is here. 

 

About EURASHE
 

EURASHE  is the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education that offer professionally orientated programmes and are engaged in applied research within the Bologna cycles. We represent more than 600 universities of applied sciences and university colleges, national and sectorial associations of higher education institutions, and other individual institutions, such as universities.
 

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