Higher Education at a Time of Crisis - Challenges and Opportunities (Copenhagen, 28-30 June 2009)

This conference presented a broad picture of the crisis and its impact on higher education in a transparent and interactive way: trends will be highlighted; case studies will allow in depth analysis; strategies will be shared.Participants will debate questions of supply and demand, costs and income in higher education and will analyse the role and responsibility of higher education institutions and how to transform these challenges into opportunities.

Presentations

The Economic Situation - Implications for Higher Education

• Sven Sveinbjorn Blondal - Head of Division, Economics department,OECD
  The economic crisis: facts and implications for public policy

Local Responses to Global Crisis

• Professor Ellen Hazelkorn - Director of Research and Enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School, Dublin Institute of Technology
  Good-bye to the Celtic Tiger? Higher Education in Ireland 2009
  
  
• Eulalia W. Petit de Gabriel - Regional Coordinator, Government of Andalucía – SPAIN  (EU)
  Higher Education in Andalusia at a Time of Crisis - An Opportunity for Regional Development
  
  
• Zaki Akel Sobrinho, Rector, Federal University of Brazil
  The case of Paraná (Brazil)

Student Demand

• Bert Vandenkendelaere - Member of the Executive Committee of the European Students’ Union
  Impact of the Crisis on Higher Education: Student Demand

Institutional Resources

• Lucia Reisch, Professor CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR)
  Responsible Management Education at a Time of Crisis
  
  
• Jens Aaris Thisted, Ph.D. Vice Dean –Open University, CBS
  Institutional response!

Australia, Denmark & US

• Robert Strand Ph.D. Fellow-Copenhagen Business School Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
  Australia, Denmark & USA

Adapting governance and quality systems at a time of crisis

• Francesc-Xavier Grau Vidal Rector, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain PP 
  Governance and Quality
  
  
• Jan-Erik Krusberg, University of Applied Sciences, Arcada
  Adapting governance, strategies and quality systems at times of crises

Content and Cost

• Jamil Salmi, World Bank
  The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Tertiary Education Institutions
  
  
• Bruno Lévesque, Principal Administrator, OECD
  OECD programme on financial education

How the crisis might Transform Higher Education: Some Scenarios

• Stephan Vincent-Lancrin, Senior Education Analyst, OECD
  How the crisis might transform higher education: some scenarios

Closing Session

• Dirk Van Damme, Head of Division, EDU/CERI, OECD
  What have we learned? What to do now? What to do next?
  
  
• Francesc-Xavier Grau Vidal, Rector, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
  The emergence of regions:The spreading of knowledge
  
  
• Roger Goodman, Vice president, Moody's Investors Service, USA
  Global Recession and Universities