MLW:Trans-national Foresight for a Black Sea Higher Education Area

Trans-national Foresight for a Black Sea Higher Education Area is a workshop to be organized in Bucharest, August 31st – September 2nd 2011.

Day 1, August 31st
20.00 Initial meeting and social event

A welcome speech by Adrian Curaj

First Session
moderated by Adrian Curaj

9:00 - 9:15 Opening the dialogue

9:15 - 10:00 “The University in the Black Sea Area” Mircea Malița, Chairman of the Black Sea University Foundation 9:15 - 9:45 Presentation 9:45 - 10:00 Questions, answers, comments

10:00 - 10:45 “UNIDO Transnational Foresight Exercises: experience from Latin America and CEE” Ricardo Seidl-da-Fonseca, Senior Officer at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 10:00 - 10:30 Presentation 10:30 - 10:45 Questions, answers, comments

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:00 “Managing Global Interdependencies” Vasile Pușcaș, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca 11:15 - 11:45 Presentation 11:45 - 12:00 Questions, answers, comments

12:00 - 12:45 “Overview of Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental and Political context for the Black Sea Area: Opportunities and Challenges” Ștefan Tinca, Black Sea Economic Cooperation 12:00 - 12:30 Presentation 12:30 - 12:45 Questions, answers, comments

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Second Session
moderated by Alexander Sokolov

14:00 - 14:45 “Rationales and Objectives of Transnational Foresight“ Ӧzcan Saritaș, University of Manchester 14:00 - 14:30 Presentation 14:30 - 14:45 Questions, answers, comments

14:45 - 15:30 “A Knowledge-Instrument for the Diplomat’s Toolbox” Dan Grosu, National School for Political and Administration Studies 14:45 - 15:15 Presentation 15:15 - 15:30 Questions, answers, comments

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:45 “Setting Visions and Exploring Synergies” Dragoș Aligică, George Mason University 16:00 - 16:30 Presentation 16:30 - 16:45 Questions, answers, comments

16:45 - 17:00 Closing of Day 1

20:00 Social event

Third Session
moderated by Ӧzcan Saritaș

9:00 - 10:30 “Higher Education Visions and Strategies in selected countries”

A Vision for the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov, Higher School of Economics 9:00 - 9:30 Presentation

A Vision for Turkey Turgut Tümer, Middle East Technical University 9:30 - 10:00 Presentation

A Vision for Romania Adrian Curaj, National School for Political and Administration Studies 10:00 - 10:30 Presentation

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 “Wiring up the Black Sea Area” Round-table moderated by Gülsün Sağlamer, Board Member of the European Universities Association

12:30 Lunch and Conclusion of the Event