LEAD Workshops at METU, Ankara, 1-5 May 2018

Date

The 5th Series of LEAD Workshops takes place at METU, Ankara, 1-5 May 2018. The workshops will welcome over 60 European and Chinese university leaders and key staff members. The draft programme can be found here.

Tuesday, 1 May, 2018

Ankara, arriving and registration

18.30-21.00 

Dinner hosted by METU: Çayyolu Balıkçıköy 

Wednesday, 2 May, 2018

METU Culture and Convention Center, Ankara

8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-9.30

Opening and welcome speeches

  • LEAD project Video
  • Prof. Dr. Mustafa Verşan Kök, Rector of METU
  • Prof. Wu Jiang, Executive Vice President of Tongji University
  • Associate Prof. Dr. Hale Işık-Güler - Advisor to the Rector for Internationalization, METU
  • Prof. Dr. Chang Zhu, LEAD Project Coordinator, VUB

Plenary sessions

9.30-10.15

Keynote speech: “The Internationalisation of Higher Education: Strategic Planning for Trajectories of Growth”

  • Prof. Dr. Helen Spencer Oatey, University of Warwick

10.15 – 10.30

Tea/coffee break

10.30-11.15

Keynote speech: "Crisis management - a successful example".

  • Prof. Neyses, Vice-Rector Research and former Acting Rector of the University of Luxembourg

Wednesday, 2 May, 2018

METU Culture and Convention Center, Ankara

Plenary session

11.15 -12.00

Keynote speech: 

Prof. Rosette S'Jegers, Secretary-General of VLIR, Belgium

Lunch

12.00-13.20

Çadır Restaurant (METU Technopark)

13.30-15.30

Workshop A:

Innovative processes in HE & Creative mentality; policies for innovation

Facilitators:

  • Prof. Dr. Nazlı Wasti Pamuksuz-METU 
  • Chinese facilitator Tongji University

Round Table: (Senior Administrators/academic leaders)

NAEA

METU

Tongji University

15.30-17.30

Workshops

18.30-21.00

Dinner - Göksu Restaurant

Thursday, 3 May, 2018  

METU, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, B Building, Ankara

9.00 – 9.15

Opening and welcome speech

  • Prof. Dr. Luciano Saso, President of UNICA

9.15 -10.30

Workshop B:

Negotiation and conflict management

Facilitators:

  • Prof. Dr. Melita Kovacevic
  • Chinese facilitator NAEA

Round Table:

(Senior Administrators/academic leaders)

Prof. dr. Jan Cornelis, VUB

NAEA

10.30-10.45

Tea/coffee break

Thursday, 3 May, 2018

METU, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, B Building, Ankara

10.45- 11.45

Workshop - part II:

Negotiation and conflict management

Facilitators:

  • Prof.Dr. Melita Kovacevic
  • Chinese facilitator YNNU

Round Table :

(Senior Administrators/academic leaders)

Lunch

12.00-13.20

Lunch at Ege Günlüğü (Bilkent Center)

Afternoon

13.30-15.30

Workshop C:

New concepts of leadership: distributive & collective leadership

Facilitators:

  • Prof. Dr. Yaşar Kondakçı, METU  
  • Chinese facilitator HUST

Round Table:

Senior Administrators/academic leaders)

Prof. dr. Yang Huilin

Prof. dr. Yan Jin

15.30-16.00 Workshop

Summary and Conclusion Session

  • Jan Cornelis, Former Vice Rector for International Relations, VUB
  • Chinese partner
  • Associate Prof. Dr. Hale Işık-Güler - Advisor to the Rector for Internationalization, METU

18.00-23.00

Friday, 4 May, 2018

LEAD project Consortium meeting

Saturday, 5 May, 2018

Istanbul

LEAD project meeting

End of LEAD 5th series workshops