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EUniverCities Open Seminar, 20 March 2015
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How to make Europe's University Cities future proof Friday, 20 March 2015 | Delft, The Netherlands
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City of Delft Department of Urban and Economic Development Patrick van Geel,
Register now for EUniverCities' Open Seminar 'How to make Europe's University Cities future proof' On Friday March 20, 2015, we organise a lively conference on how to make university cities future proof. Topics that will be discussed are: Entrepreneurship Campus development Europe’s Grand Societal Challenges Date:
Friday, 20 March 2015, 10:00-17:00h
Location: Van der Mandelezaal (Museum Prinsenhof), Schoolstraat 7, 2611 HS DELFT, The Netherlands Registration: Free of charge, please register via this link.
Margie Burger and Adrie Steenbeek
Address: PO Box 78 NL - 2600 ME Delft The Netherlands Phone: +31 15 260 2513
+31 15 219 7482 +31 15 260 1834
E-mail: network_eunivercities @delft.nl urbact_eunivercities @delft.nl Websites: eunivercitiesnetwork.com urbact.eu/eunivercities
Please find some background information and the programme in this newsletter. Shoud you have any further questions, let us know.
The City of Delft, Delft University of Technology and other local stakeholders will host the final project conference of the EUniverCities project. On Friday 20th of March during the Open Seminar titled ‘How to make Europe’s University Cities future proof’ different speakers will convene to present and debate Europe’s future. It’s our common belief that university cities in Europe play a key role in strengthening Europe’s economic, innovation and social potential. Background
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Over the last three years the City of Delft has collaborated with nine other European cities in the project EUniverCities: Aachen and Magdeburg (Germany), Aveiro (Portugal), Ghent (Belgium), Lecce (Italy), Linköping (Sweden), Lublin (Poland), Tampere (Finland) and Varna (Bulgaria). This URBACT funded project focuses on city-university relations and aims at improving understanding and cooperation in several domains. The domains address topics as diverse as economic development, internationalization, science education for society, students in the city and joint marketing to attract talent. In each city peer reviews are adopted to assess plans and policies of the host city, followed up by exchange of best practices, mutual learning, recommendations and advice. The project started a few months after the overarching EUniverCities Network was successfully launched, early 2012. During the Open Seminar we will address three different, overarching topics that have emerged during the EUniverCities project, and we think will be relevant for the future of our cities and Europe at large:
1. Entrepreneurship as major tool for development 2. Universities of the Future: Campus development 3. Cities and Universities realizing Europe’s Grand Societal Challenges In the afternoon both a final report with the main outcomes of the project as well as a statement on university cities in Europe will be presented by Mr Verkerk, Mayor of the City of Delft. This seminar will be inspiring for practitioners of urban policy, academia and for people from the political arena from across Europe, that are in some way connected to City-University collaboration.
Programme Open Seminar: How to make Europe’s University Cities future proof’*
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20 March 2015 Time
Topic
9.00-10.00
Registrations
10.00-10.10
Opening speech & introduction to today's programme
10.10-10.30
Presentation PR meeting Delft and group posters EUniverCities movie
Speaker
Arthur Tolsma (Master of Ceremony) Willem van Winden (Urban IQ)
10.30-10.40
Q&A
10.40-11.00
Keynote speech “Entrepreneurship as major tool for development”
Bernard Wientjes (Chair Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Utrecht University)
11.00-11.30
Presentations and reflections
Tampere, NUON Solar Team (DUT)
11.30-11.45
Coffee break
11.45-12.05
Presentation and Round table: University Cities of the Future - CampusAlexandra den Heijer (Associate Professor, DUT) development
12.05-12.30
Presentations and reflections
12.30-12.45
Q&A
12.45-13.45
Lunch
Aachen, Parma, Trondheim
Presentation of LAPs by all EUniverCities URBACT partners NUON Solar Team and NUNA
13.45-14.05
Mayor Bas Verkerk (City of Delft); Normunds Delivery Final Project Report & Popens (European Commission, Deputy DG Statement EUniverCities: including link Regional and Urban Policy); Emmanuel Moulin with Urban Agenda for EU (Director URBACT); Marc Frequin (Ministry of the Interior, The Netherlands, tbc)
14.05-14.15
Q&A
14.15-15.15
Presentation and Round table: Cities and Universities realizing Europe’s Grand Societal Challenges
Pia Laurila (European Commission, DG Research & Innovation)
Presentations and reflections
Linköping, Ghent
Q&A 15.15-15.20
Closing words
15.20-17.00
Networking (drinks)
Patrick van Geel (City of Delft)
End of programme *Please note that some small changes may occur in the programme
Should you have any further questions regarding this newsletter or about the EUniverCities Project or Network, please contact us through the following media:
EUC Network Website URBACT EUC Website EUC LinkedIn Group EUC E-mail
EUC YouTube Channel
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