Coimbra Group Meeting

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 PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE</h2>

 Meeting November 22 at 9.00 to November 23 at 14.00

 University of Salamanca, Spain

 Participants: Members of the Coimbra Employability Work Group, Jeff Haywood member of Coimbra Executive Board

  

 Tuesday November 22nd 2016

 9.00 - 9.15 Welcome and presentation

 9.15 - 10.00 Introduction to the election of new chair for the Employability WG

 Motivation of candidates and election.

 10.00 - 13.00 Status of the Employability work plan with short presentations from 5 projects.

 1. The Concept Programme for the Seminar about Erasmus+ Internships in Sienna on May 11th and 12th 2017. A cooperation of the WG Mobility and Employability. By Luut Kroes, University of Groningen.

 2. Experience and report from the staff training week in Pavia October 2016. By Stefania Mellera, University of Pavia.

 3. Career activities from PhDs and Postdocs to prepare a career outside academia. Short presentation of offers at two universities. By Luut Kroes, University of Groningen and one more.

 4. International internships and the local support from Coimbra Universities. Demonstration of a platform. By Janne Loikkanen, University of Turku

 5. Erasmus+ Partnership programme - a new initiative. By Krischan Brandl, University of Würzburg

 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

 14.00 - 17.00 Work in the various groups from the 3-year work-plan. Here we dedícate time for the small taskforces to get together and discuss in more details on the various projects in the work plan.

 20.00 Dinner

  

 Wednesday November 23rd 2016

 9.00 - 12.30 This morning session we open up for discussions on various new subjects relevant to the employability WG. The intension with this session is to keep our 3-year work plan rolling with new initiatives for the coming years.

 Discussion on prioritized subjects from this list:
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 European internship program (with the Coimbra Mobility WG)</li>
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 EU eSkills Strategy</li>
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 Career readiness in the academic curriculum, there is a skills gap. Development of a framework which could be used as a basis f or the development of curricula and learning activities. Employability as a competence/learning outcome.</li>
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 Big data on employability- maybe a subject for a PhD i.e.:
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 How fast do our alumni find a job?</li>
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 What is their salary as they start?</li>
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 What is their job/salary after two or five years?</li>
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 What is their position on the European labour market?</li>
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 Further development of virtual tools, development of ecourses and online events.</li>
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 Minor in Economics (or Business?) for Humanities students with international internships.</li>
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 Assessment of soft skills. Robert Wagenaar from the Tuning Academy is already working on these issues. Also the Dare+project is working on it.</li>
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 Soft skills (competencies trajning) for PhD graduates.</li>
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 PhDs and entrepreneurship</li>
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 12.30 - 13.00 Wrap-up and input for next meeting in Brussels.

 13.00 - 14.00 Meeting closing

Dates Event local time

Oct

11^th

'16

07:00 Registration opens

Nov

22^nd

'16

09:00 Starting date

Nov

23^rd

'16

13:00 Registration closes

Nov

23^rd

'16

14:00 Closing date

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Coimbra Group Meeting

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