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Faculty Tour 201525 november 2015
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Executive Board Portfolios
• Martin Paul– Strategy– Internationalisation– Campus Development– U-council/Strategy
Committee
• Luc Soete– Education &
Student Affairs– Research– Accreditation &
Quality Assurance– U-Council/Research &
Education Committee
• Nick Bos– Operations– Kennis-As Limburg– Campus Development– Valorisation– U-Council/
Operations Committee
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Strategic Programme UM2012-2016
• Innovation in education• International orientation firmly
rooted in the Netherlands, Limburg and the Euregion
• Integrated, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to research and education
Performance Agreements
Example: • Education quality
Kennis-As Limburg
• Science for society• Expansion/growth UM• Brightlands Campuses
Etc.
• …
“LUIK 3” (academic innovation) projects
Examples: • Increase
interdisciplinary research
• Education concept innovation
Elements SP 2012-2016
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Challenges Education
• Maintaining and improving educational quality
• Developing unique selling point “PBL” and International Classroom
• Defining “employability” as additional educational quality parameter
• Addressing system changes (e.g. Student Loan System)
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EDLAB
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Students employability requirements
professional expertise
academic skills
practical experience
(inter) personal
skills
UM TaskforceEmployability
installed
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Impact Student Loan System
• Basic grant becomes loan• The freed resources are re-invested
in education• University Council (50% students)
has right of consent on main aspects of the annual budget
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Challenges Research
• Research funding increasingly difficult- end of TTO’s- heavy competition NWO and H2020
• Exploration of alternative resources (e.g. Kennis-As) and improving earning power (e.g. fostering talent)
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Kennis-As
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Relation Brightlands, Campus, Kennis-As• Brightlands is the brand of the four
Limburg campuses• Campuses are the Limburg focus- and
crystallization points• Kennis-As Limburg is a 10-year strategic
programme from the knowledge institutes with support from the Province of Limburg
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Kennis-As: alternative research funding
M€
Extra, external moneydrawn to the region
Total targeted investment
Already labelled investments (2015)
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Kennis-As results in year 1&2
• Effective Triple-Helix collaboration• 13 Trendsetting projects have been approved• 6 New (international) research institutes
started• 4 Brightlands Campuses put “on the map”• Broad acknowledgment of Limburg-approach
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Challenges Operations
• Be an attractive employer in changing environment
• Addressing workload and career develop-ment for all employees
• Have an appealing infrastructure without over-investing
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• UM as a good employer• Attention for mobility and vitality of all
employees• UM strives for more permanent employments in
academic careers• UM strives for standardisation and uniformity,
e.g. in the field of the tenure-track and academic careers
• Action plan on diversity, e.g. “women in academia”
Renewal of HR policy UM
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Benchmarkreal estate(VSNU 2014)
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On the way to the new SP 2017-2021
• Content - Focus on distinctive UM strategy- and
innovation elements• Process
- Timely first draft by EB and MT (end of 2015)
- Input by expert teams/think tanks/community on specific elements of the draft programme