The
Access to Success
Workshop 3:
Europe and Africa: Intra and Inter regional academic
mobility
Accra, Ghana, 3-4 May, 2010
May
3: Intra-regional academic mobility: Comparing
challenges and objectives in Europe and Africa
Introduction to the event
Michael Gaebel, EUA
Opening Plenary: The Why and How of Intra-Regional
mobility: Rationales, incentives and realities
Erasmus, mobility and
the foundations of Bologna, 10 years of the European
Higher Education Area: How far have we really come with
European mobility?
Monique Fouilhoux, Education
International
Current realities in
the African continent: motivations to generate mobility,
creating an African Higher Education Space?
Juma Shabani, UNESCO Bamako Cluster
Office
WG1: Recognition and mobility
Recognition in Europe:
Principles of the Lisbon Recognition Convention,
implementation and remaining challenges
Andrejs Rauhvargers, Bologna Recognition
Working Group / Latvian Rectors' Conference
Recognition in Africa:
Taking Arusha forward
Olusola Oyewole, Senior Education Expert, African Union
Commission
WG2: Virtual
mobility: A new dimension for partnership?
Otto Kroesen, TU Delft and David Ndegwah,
Tangaza College
Virtual collaboration on real problems - Kroesen and
Ndegwah
WG3: Joint degrees and mobility - innovative curricula
and other institutional benefits
Pär Svensson, Lund University
Nan Warner, University Science Humanities
and Engineering Partnerships in Africa (USHEPiA)
Plenary 2: Panel:
Experiences, policies and challenges for institutional
mobility: institutional case studies and panel
discussion
Lex Bouter, VU Amsterdam
Wilson Wasike, Training Department,
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Plenary 3: Panel: Generating regional mobility in Africa:
Launching Nyerere and other schemes
The Nyerere programme
and Mobility objectives of the AU
Olusola Oyewole, African Union Commission
Supporting regional
integration and an African HE space
Deirdre Lennan, DG Education and Culture,
European Commission
May 4:
Inter-regional academic mobility and professional brain
drain
Plenary 4: A
current picture of brain drain from Africa: Scope and
effect
Abdeslam Marfouk, Université Catholique
de Louvain/ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Considering
brain drain: Lessons from Access to Success
Forces and drivers:
Presentation of access and retention workshop and study
results
MeeFoong Lee, EAN
Potential and real
solutions: Presentation of capacity building workshop
Tor Rynning Torp, UHR
Break outs 2: Fighting brain drain, driving brain
circulation: Current modalities
WG 1
Almudena Caballos Villar, Agencia
Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
(AECID)
Heike Edelmann-Okinda, German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD)
WG2
Abdoulaye Salifou, Bureau of Central
Africa, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
Richard Middleton, Commonwealth
Scholarship Commission (CSC)
Plenary 5: Inter-regional mobility and brain drain:
Student input
Presentation of student input meeting and
discussion (National Union of Ghana Students, Erasmus
Mundus Alumni, European Students Union)
Ghanaian student perspective
Plenary 6: Panel: Institutional perspectives on brain
drain: challenges and solutions
Barack Owuor, Maseno University, Kenya
Steven Simukanga, University of Zambia
Brian O'Connell, University of Western
Cape
Plenary 7: Conclusions and policy messages of workshop
Michael Gaebel, EUA and Goolam
Mohamedbhai, AAU
Additional presentations:
Christoff Pauw, Stellenbosch University:
South South Research Collaboration. The Case of
Stellenbosch University.
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