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WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL
TODAY’S THEME: PRIVACY
DAY CHAIR:
STAMENKA UVALIĆ-TRUMBIĆ, FORMER HEAD OF SECTION HIGHER EDUCATION, UNESCO
08:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS
08:00-09:00 FIRST TIMERS NETWORKING
BREAKFAST – SPONSORED BY PARCHMENT
Making you feel at home within the network
Mike Reilly, Dr. Matt Pittinsky and Peter van der Hijden
09:00-11:00 GDN BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
11:00-11:15 BRIEF REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:15-12:15 WELCOME ADDRESSES AND OPENING KEYNOTE
Victoriano Giralt, President, Groningen Declaration Network
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić, Day chair
OPENING KEYNOTE – SPONSORED BY COLLEGESOURCE
“FRANCE’S DIGITAL STRATEGY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION”
Mehdi Gharsallah, Strategy Advisor on Digitisation to the Director-General for Higher Education and Employability, Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France presentation
12:15-13:15 NETWORKING LUNCH
13:15-13:55 GDN TASK FORCE PRESENTATIONS, 10 MINUTES EACH (MAXIMUM)
- Dissemination, Victoriano Giralt and Nico Sciasci
- Empowering Cross Border Enrolment and Student Loan Portability, Jelger de Boer and Tessa Mouha presentation
- Pilots, Dik van der Wal and Kathleen Massey presentation
- Verification Policies and Best Practices, Navin Vasudev and Meg Wenger presentation
13:55-14:15 ANNUAL REPORT INCLUDING FIRST FINANCIAL/FISCAL REPORT
Herman de Leeuw, Executive Director and Neil Robinson,Treasurer
Call for Board of Directors Nominations – put forward your candidacies.
Mike Reilly, Vice-Chairperson, GDN
14:15-14:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK – SPONSORED BY CREDENTIAL SOLUTIONS
14:45-15:25 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
UNDER THE HOOD OF DIGITAL QUALIFICATIONS, QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORKS AND THEIR POLICY CHALLENGES
Borhene Chakroun, UNESCO, France presentation
Andy Dowling, Digitary, Australia and Ireland presentation
Andreia Inamorato dos Santos, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain presentation
Digital technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges for qualifications and skills development, verification and recognition globally. With these opportunities come a wide variety of solution architectures including depositories, networks, badges, and blockchain. Digital learners’ records and open data sources are complementing traditional qualifications depositories, while challenging the conventional models of credential verification and evaluation. Many questions are being asked about trustworthiness of data, interoperability of systems, and most critically the ubiquity of the standards and systems that govern this new and dynamic landscape.
The panelists will present and discuss UNESCO’s ongoing work on world reference levels to support recognition of skills and qualifications across-borders. They will also present the European Commission’s JRC report ‘Going Open: Policy Recommendations on Open Education in Europe,’ which brings recommendations to deal with the challenges and make use of the opportunities arising within this new scenario of digital education for the recognition and validation of credentials. They will explore this rapidly evolving landscape and will argue for increased synergies between these developments and the quality assurance systems that have become closely associated with the implementation of a new generation of qualifications frameworks internationally.
15:25-16:05 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
GLOBAL, MOBILE LEARNERS: A SELF-SOVEREIGN FUTURE
Alexander Grech, StrategyWorks, Malta presentation
Natalie Smolenski, Learning Machine, USA presentation
16:05–17:00 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
GDPR AND HIGHER EDUCATION PRIVACY STANDARDS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
MODERATOR
Rick Torres, National Student Clearinghouse, USA
Panelists
Mary Chapin, National Student Clearinghouse, USA
Mehdi Gharsallah, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France
Melanie Gottlieb, AACRAO, USA
Valère Meus, Erasmus without Paper Consortium, Belgium
With the implementation date of May 25 looming, higher education institutions around the globe grapple with this far reaching data protection regulation. Panelists will discuss the implications of GDPR from a global perspective and lead a participant discussion of the implications of international data privacy trends on internationalization efforts in higher education. presentation
MEETING ENDS
17:15-19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION
THURSDAY 19 APRIL
All conference sessions take place at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, at 4, place Jussieu – 75005, Paris in Amphithéatre 25 or in the adjoining breakout rooms 106, 107 or 1082
TODAY’S THEME: TRUST
DAY CHAIR:
DR. JUDITH EATON, PRESIDENT, COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ACCREDITATION, USA
09:00-09:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS – SPONSORED BY DELOITTE
THE ALTERNATIVE IS NOT NECESSARILY INFERIOR – RE-THINKING EDUCATION PATHWAYS
Dr. Francis Fabri, Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Education and Employment, Malta presentation
09:40-10:20 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
“BOLOGNA DIGITAL” – SHAPING THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA
Florian Rampelt, KIRON, Germany presentation
Dominic Orr, Germany
Peter van der Hijden, Belgium
“Bologna Digital”, a Discussion Paper. With the support of the Bertelsmann Foundation and Kiron, the presenters have taken the initiative to draft a discussion paper entitled ‘Bologna Digital”. The paper was written with the deliberate intention to influence the political debate in the run-up to the May 24/25 Bologna Ministerial Meeting in Paris and to build a ‘coalition of the willing’. The aim is to ensure that digitalization will get a prominent place in the Ministerial Communiqué (agenda setting document) and the subsequent Bologna Action Plan (follow-up). The paper is also a response to the Digital Education Action Plan published by the European Commission on January 17, 2018.
10:20-11:00 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
SAFE & OPEN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A BALANCING ACT.
Paul Goossens, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences/ Program Integral Safe Higher Education, The Netherlands presentation
HEIs have a unique ‘open’ character, due to their social assignment. This open character is vital to create the optimal setting to learn, teach and research. HEIs also have to offer a safe environment (digital, physical, social) to their (international) students, teachers, researchers and staff. In the Netherlands, this challenge is addressed by the program ‘Safe and Open Higher Education’, a cooperation of HEIs. This program would like to present and share three deliverables, and reports on current work in Armenia on combating fraud in higher education.
11:00-11:20 REFRESHMENT BREAK – SPONSORED BY HECSU/PROSPECTS HEDD SERVICE
11:25-11:55 CONCURRENT SESSIONS, FIRST SERIES
IA – OPEN BADGES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT LIFECYCLE
Marica Franchi, CINECA, Italy presentation
IB – THE COMPREHENSIVE STUDENT RECORD MOVEMENT TODAY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Dr. Rodney Parks, Elon University, USA presentation
Dr. Matthew Pittinsky, Parchment, USA
Elon University’s Visual Experiential Transcript is a significant departure from the traditional paper-based student transcript. This digital-only document synthesizes the overall collegiate experience for employers and stakeholders.
IC – BEYOND QUALIFICATIONS
Sharon Robertson, Vetassess, Australia presentation
Qualifications do not provide the necessary confidence or understanding about an individual’s capabilities. What other key areas of understanding are necessary to support global mobility and employment?
ID – GRONINGEN BLOCKCHAIN IN EDUCATION FIELD LAB
Johan Tillema, Quintor, the Netherlands
Hidde-Jan Jongsma, TNO/Groningen Blockchain in Education Field Lab, The Netherlands
StudyBits is a blockchain application development that will provide trusted and secured credentials, certificates and diplomas supporting access, mobility and excellence in Education and Science, Talent Management and Life Long Learning.
12:00-13:00 NETWORKING LUNCH
13:05-13:35 CONCURRENT SESSIONS, SECOND SERIES
IIA – DIGITAL CREDENTIALS IN MEDICAL LICENSING IN THE UNITED STATES
Michael Dugan, Federation of State Medical Boards, USA presentation
IIB – EVERYDAY DIGITAL – CREDENTIAL ACCESSIBILITY AND SECURITY IS NOW BUSINESS AS USUAL
Anthony Manahan, University of Melbourne presentation
Joanne Browne, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Credential accessibility and security will be explored in the context of how digital credentialing can leverage other technologies, such as robotics and blockchain, as well as micro credentialing, to both improve efficiency but also potentially relieve.
IIC – HOW NOT TO LOSE YOUR HEAD BUT INNOVATE WITH BLOCKCHAIN IN MOBILITY AND EDUCATION
Hennie Bulstra, DUO, The Netherlands presentation
Vera Mol, DUO, The Netherlands
Dik van der Wal DUO, The Netherlands
IID – AUTHENTICATING THE ORIGIN OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE – IS THERE A NEED?
Mayela Celis, Hague Conference on Private International Law, The Netherlands presentation
Rick Torres, National Student Clearinghouse, USA
Chris Jackson, Paradigm Inc., USA
13:40-14:40 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
WHAT ROLE FOR EUROPE IN THE GLOBAL DIGITISATION-IN-EDUCATION EFFORT?
MODERATOR
Dr. Alex Grech, Founder and CEO, StrategyWorks, Malta
PANELISTS
Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, Head of Unit, representing European Commissioner to the DG Education and Culture Tibor Navracsics, Belgium
Denis Despréaux, Director of Europe and International Division at Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France
Dr. Francis Fabri, Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Education and Employment, Malta
Marjan Hammersma, Secretary-General, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands
Peter Hassenbach, Head of Division International Exchanges in Higher Education, Internationalization, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
14:40-15:10 REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:15-15:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS, THIRD SERIES
IIIA – CREDENTIALING IN A WORLD OF DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION
Franklin Shaffer, CGFNS International, Inc., USA presentation
The digital transformation in credentials assessment requires collaboration across multiple stakeholders with a goal of producing a credentials and career continuum superhighway that could be used for pre-professional mobility, continued higher learning and professional development, as well as digital credentials and credentials depositories.
IIIB – DEQAR, THE EUROPEAN DATABASE OF EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE RESULTS AND DECISIONS
Melinda Szabo, Policy Analyst, EQAR – European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education presentation
Kathryn Máthé, Project Leader DEQAR, EQAR – European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education
The Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR) will allow users to identify whether a higher education institution or its programmes have been subjected to external quality assurance in line with the ESG, by an EQAR-registered agency. The database is expected to satisfy the information needs of a wide range of users (i.e. recognition officers, students, quality assurance agencies) and support different types of decisions (e.g. recognition of degrees, mobility of students, portability of grants/loans).
IIIC – EXTRASUP PROJECT TOOLKIT AND ENDORSEMENT OF OPEN BADGES TO FOSTER STUDENT MOBILITY
Caroline Bélan-Ménagier, Confederal University Leonardo da Vinci, France presentation
As validation arrangements regarding informal and non-formal learning are still a complex issue in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Europe, the French ministry for higher education has launched, with stakeholders, the national EXTRAsup project, funded by the Erasmus + program, on the issue of competences acquired by students during extracurricular activities.
IIID – HOW THE WORLD’S BIGGEST STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMME IS GOING DIGITAL
João Bacelar, European University Foundation/Erasmus without Paper, Luxembourg
This session will present the latest findings from several EU funded projects, explain how they are combining their strengths to address current challenges and anticipate the impact of new flagship initiatives.
15:50-16:20 CONCURRENT SESSIONS, FOURTH SERIES
IVA – PESC GEO CODE: A USA CASE STUDY
W. Matt Bemis, University of Southern California, USA presentation
Emily Tse, International Education Research Foundation, USA
IVB – THE BLOCKCHAIN IN EDUCATION
Chris Jagers, Learning Machine, USA
IVC – LIFELONG STUDENT IDENTITY
Bryan Georges, EVERNYM, United Kingdom presentation
IVD – SOUTH AFRICAN STEERING MECHANISMS FOR MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS AGREEMENTS: ENHANCING STUDENT ARTICULATION AND MOBILITY GLOBALLY
Dr. Shirley Lloyd, Department for Higher Education and Training, South Africa. presentation
16:20-16:40 SIGNING CEREMONY
MEETING ENDS
19:00-22:00 ANNUAL MEETING DINNER AT UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT LA BARGE (CNOUS) QUAI FRANÇOIS MAURIAC, PORT DE LA GARE – 75013 PARIS
Opened by Lionel Veer, Permanent Representative, Netherlands Permanent Delegation to UNESCO. Musical performance by Edoardo Liberati Jazz Quartet.
ANNUAL DINNER – SPONSORED BY DIGITARY
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE – SPONSORED BY GRONINGEN BLOCKCHAIN IN EDUCATION FIELD LAB
FRIDAY 20 APRIL
All conference sessions take place at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, at 4, place Jussieu – 75005, Paris in Amphithéatre 25 or in the adjoining breakout rooms 106, 107 or 1082
TODAY’S THEME: LEARNER MOBILITY
DAYCHAIR:
DR. HILLIGJE VAN‘T LAND, SECRETARY-GENERAL, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES
08:45-09:25 PLENARY KEYNOTE
On UNESCO’s Global Recognition Convention and the Relevance of Digitization for Recognition and Mobility
Stig Arne Skjerven, Director of Foreign Education at NOKUT, Norway/ President of the ENIC Network presentation
09:25-09:55 SHOWCASE SESSIONS FIRST ROUND
IA – AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND – MY EQUALS PROGRAM, SHARING LEARNINGS OF THE FIRST 18 MONTHS IN OPERATION
Jay Segeth, My eQuals, HigherEd Services, Australia
IB – INDIA – CDSL NAD PRESENTATION
Joydeep Dutta, CDSL, India presentation
IC – BELGIUM – BELGIAN BLOCKCHAIN PROOF OF CONCEPT
Tessa Mouha, AHOVOKS, Belgium presentation
Dr. Aurélien Fiévez, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium
Presentation by the Flemish Government and the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, with focus on checking authenticity and exchanging diploma data.
09:55-10:25 SHOWCASE SESSIONS SECOND ROUND
IIA – CANADA – ADVANCING STUDENT MOBILITY FOR CANADA
Charmaine Hack, President, Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC)
Dr. Rob Fleming, Co-Chair, British Columbia Council on Admissions & Transfer (BCCAT)
Romesh Vadivel, Vice President, Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC)
Canada’s ARUCC Groningen and Student Mobility Initiative is a multi-year project with the vision of advancing national and international student mobility through trusted student data exchange at the national and international level. Our partners include the Pan-Canadian Consortium on Admissions and Transfer (PCCAT), the Canadian Post-secondary Education Standards Council (CanPESC), and the Canadian University Council of Chief Information Officers (CUCCIO). We invite you to join this session to gain an update regarding this Canadian project.
IIB – GERMANY – BRACING FOR EUROPE AND BEYOND: A GERMAN PERSPECTIVE ON EMREX
Guido Bacharach, Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung, Germany presentation
IIC – INDIA – DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT OF STUDENTS AND UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA – NAD A BEGINNING
Vijay Gupta, NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML), India presentation
Prashant Prachand, NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML), India
10:25-10:55 SHOWCASE SESSIONS THIRD ROUND
IIIA – CHINA – ON PRIVACY, TRUST AND VERIFICATION OF CHINA HIGHER EDUCATION INFORMATION
Dr. Cheng Weixing, CHESICC, China
Presentation on the Cyber Security Law of China and how CHESICC facilitates global student mobility. presentation
IIIB – EMREX UPDATE WITH NORWEGIAN CASE STUDY
Jonna Korhonen, EMREX consortium, Finland presentation
Geir Vangen, CERES, Norway
IIIC – SOUTH AFRICA SAQA UPDATE: NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND CONTINENTAL AFRICAN ACTIVITIES
Navin Vasudev, Director, GDN Board of Directors & SAQA, South Africa presentation
10:55-11:25 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:25-12:05 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
THE MOBILITY AGENDA – BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES
MODERATOR
Melanie Gottlieb, AACRAO, USA
PANELISTS
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić, Former Head of Section Higher Education,
UNESCO
Dr. Judith Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation,
USA
Dr. Hilligje van t Land, Secretary-General, International Association of
Universities
Stig Arne Skjerven, Director of Foreign Education at NOKUT, Norway/ President of the ENIC Network
Mobility is a multi-dimensional goal that requires a coordination of efforts at every level – government, organization, and institution. As the GDN paves the digital path for student mobility, how does the work of the ENIC-NARIC Network, AACRAO, NACES,TAICEP and other such organizations align with GDN? How do comparative education research, policy and politics support or impede mobilty? Where are the opportunities for stronger alignment and how do we get there?
12:05-12:15 SIGNING CEREMONY
Frédéric Forest, Deputy Director General for Higher Education and Employability, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France
12:15-12:55 CLOSING KEYNOTE
“WEAVING ALL OF THE ABOVE INTO ONE” VIDEO PRESENTATION
Sir John Daniel, Former President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning; Former Assistant Director-General, UNESCO; De Tao Master of Education presentation
12:55-13:15 CLOSING WORDS AND NEXT YEAR’S VENUE
Victoriano Giralt; Meet next year’s GDN Annual Meeting venue presentation
MEETING ENDS
13:15-13:55 LUNCH
Grabbing boxed lunches, social event: visit to Musée des Arts et Métiers
14:00-16:00 CULTURAL EVENT
Musée des Arts et Métiers
GDN BOD MEETING
16:30-17:30 FAREWELL COCKTAIL
1 Programme may be subject to minor changes until conference starts
2 Meeting spaces to be confirmed and subject to change until conference starts
