Join us at the Leipzig Science Festival Globe 2023 for the live podcast on Higher Education transformation

Next 27^th October from 14:00 to 15:00 CEST, Arqus will be participating in the Leipzig Science Festival Globe 2023 with a special live podcast episode of the “Arqus Knowledge Pills”: Bologna 2.0.? How European Higher Education Alliances are changing Research and Studies?

The Leipzig Science Festival Globe23 is aimed at finding answers to relevant questions, creating orientation and designing new questions. To this end, it creates creative spaces for unusual encounters between research, art, civil society and politics. With young and old, the festival celebrates critical curiosity and scientific knowledge as well as cross-border dialogues on and about “Life in Transition”, the theme of this year’s festival, at the Paulinum building of the Leipzig University and other venues in the city.

In the framework of this festival, Arqus will participate in the Globe Forum about transformation processes in the European higher education landscape with a special live podcast episode of the Arqus Knowledge Pills.

Alliances in European higher education are built to transform studying in every European country, ignoring barriers in language, between disciplines and institutions. They aim to establish a way to study transnationally, in multiple countries and institutions and therefore integrate the European labor market with a sustainable approach.

There are already 50 European University Alliances, including more than 500 institutions in 35 different countries in Europe. These Alliances are meant to change the process of teaching and learning drastically while making it more global, more mobile and more independent of the teaching style of specific universities. Which chances can be taken? What kind of difficulties come with it?

These topics will be discussed in the special Arqus live podcast episode with Fernando Galán, Arqus Consortium Manager, Harvey Charles, member of the Arqus International Advisory Board and Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Minnesota and Claudia Wendt, PhD candidate at the Institute for Higher Education Research. The Arqus Communications Officer from Leipzig University, Josephine Petzold, will moderate the talk.

You are welcome to listen to and watch the live streaming if you are unable to attend in Leipzig here.

In addition, you can find all previous episodes of the “Arqus Knowledge Pills” on Spotify.

Short biographies

Claudia Wendt

Claudia Wendt has been a PhD student in the Research Training Group “Science Management and Science Communication (WiMaKo)” at the Institute for Higher Education Research since 2020. She is writing her doctoral thesis on the conditions for success in international university cooperation, using the example of the European University Alliances.

She is a student of Leipzig University. In 2011, she finished her master’s degree in Educational Science with a focus on adult education, as well as Journalism and American Studies. She then became a project manager and research assistant for a joint project on the quality development of studies and teaching in the context of increasing student diversity at the University of Magdeburg. Since 2019, she works as a faculty manager for the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Leipzig University while also finishing her doctorate. 

Dr. Harvey Charles

Dr. Harvey Charles is currently Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In this role, he leads the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance and advances the University as a global leader in international teaching, research, and outreach.  

Dr. Charles is an experienced leader of international programs in higher education and a scholar in the field of international education. He earned his Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs from the Ohio State University. He has published on subjects including comprehensive internationalization, internationalizing the curriculum, and leadership in international education. He has served as Chief International Officer at multiple institutions around the US and is the former President of the Association of International Education Administrators. 

Fernando Galán

Fernando Galán is the Consortium Manager of the Arqus European University Alliance and has over 10 years of experience working on European higher education policies. 

Before joining Arqus, Fernando was head of international engagement at the Spanish Rectors’ Conference (Crue Universidades Españolas). He has also worked as a policy officer at the European Association of Higher Education Institutions and served as President of the European Students’ Association. Fernando has contributed to relevant documents at the European level in the field of higher education, such as the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the Higher Education Area, several EU initiatives and the work of UNESCO and the Council of Europe on the recognition of qualifications. 

He frequently speaks and publishes on the topic of European higher education policies.