Supporting the contribution of higher education institutions to regional development - Project team

The Project team was made up of a Project Steering Group and Project Task Group, with a different composition of members and tasks. The secretariat was provided by IMHE.

The project steering group comprises of:

• Professor José-Ginés Mora Ruiz (A representative of the IMHE Governing Board; Chair), Technical University of Valencia, Spain), josegines@upvnet.upv.es
• Mr. Richard Yelland (A representative of the OECD/IMHE), Division Head (OECD, EDU/IMHE), Richard.YELLAND@oecd.org
• Mr. Mario PEZZINI (A representative ot the OECD), Division Head (OECD, GOV/TRG), mario.pezzini@oecd.org
• Ms. Janette Cheong (A representative of the HEFCE , a co-sponsoring organisation), j.cheong@hefce.ac.uk 
• Professor John Goddard (Project Leader), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, John.Goddard@newcastle.ac.uk
  

The terms of reference of the project steering group were to:

• oversee, steer and ensure continuing commitment to the project
• agree on the project specification, scope, budget & resources, and timetable
• agree on the criteria for participation and the list of regions to be covered
• agree on the common set of principles for the self-evaluation
• approve dissemination/publication of the interim and final outcomes of the project
• monitor the work of the project task group.

The project task group was responsible to the steering group for implementation of the project:

• Professor John Goddard (Project leader), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• Mr. John Rushforth (university of West England and a representative of the HEFCE), john.rushforth@vwe.ac.uk
• Mr. Patrick Dubarle (OECD, GOV/TRG), Patrick.DUBARLE@oecd.org
• Professor Peter Arbo (Expert), University of Tromsø, Norway, petera@nfh.uit.no
• Professor Chris Duke (Expert), RMIT, Australia and NIACE, United Kingdom, chris.duke@rmit.edu.au
• Professor Steve Garlick (Expert), University of Sunshine Coast and Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, sgarlick@msn.com.au
• Ms. Jaana Puukka (OECD, EDU/IMHE), Jaana.Puukka@oecd.org

The roles of the project task group included to:

• advise the steering group on the criteria for participation and the list of regions to be included in the project
• develop a common framework to guide a self-evaluation in individual regions
• develop a methodology of a regional site visit and manage the schedule of reviews
• review self-evaluation reports/ peer review reports and draft an international synthesis paper.