Do you want to be involved in the reform of higher education in Europe? Do you want to become part in a grounded online debate undertaken by high-level academic professionals and ordinary citizens on how European academia can achieve excellence?  If you feel passionate about giving European universities a chance for becoming more performant and more innovative, then join now the open online debate on www.chanceforuniversities.eu and have your contribution enrich the content of the book "A chance for European Universities".

 The wish of the author Dr. Jozef Ritzen (economist, President of Maastricht University, previously Minister for Education in the Netherlands and vice-President of the World Bank) is for the debate to provide meaningful discussions on the book "A chance for European Universities" (Amsterdam University Press), which will later become the basis for a conference and joint declaration of top economists and former ministers for education in June 2010.  
The book is downloadable for free on the website. You can also use it for your own reference, and then comment it before publication if you feel that something could be changed.
A serious and founded debate can help change European Universities!

"What I hope to achieve with this book is to inform university staff, politicians, employers, employees, the educated community on the brakes we have put on our universities and on the alternative before us.
Of course, communal actions to release the brakes? That would be splendid."
(Jozef Ritzen, A chance for European Universities)

For more information visit www.chanceforuniversities.eu or mail: gabriele.marconi [ at ] maastrichtuniversity.nl

Venue:
15 July 2010
London South Bank University
9.15am - 4.15pm
 

Modes of participation:
Key note addresses
Papers
Open space session

Please e-mail Jonesls@lsbu.ac.uk if you wish to receive further details.  For more information see the website of the UK network for ESD/global citizenship http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ccci where most recent updates regarding the 2010 conference will be available shortly.

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To learn more about the ESD interest group, including its mission, commitment, topics, events, contacts etc., please visit http://educationsustainable.weebly.com or mail Ligia Toutant at ltoutant [at] ucla.edu