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ICA- Regional Network for Central and South Eastern Europe - CASEE Reasons for creating this network and suggestions for future activities. Martin H. Gerzabek, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences. Facts and Figures (I) of BOKU Vienna. Students: 9.500 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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ICA- Regional Network for Central and South Eastern Europe - CASEE
Reasons for creating this network and suggestions for future activities
Martin H. Gerzabek, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences
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Students: 9.500
Scientific staff: ~1.200 (850 financed by projects)
Other staff: 430
Teaching, research and administrative facilities are located throughout Vienna at 20 different sites. Most of them are in the green districts – the 18th and 19th district – and are readily accessible by public transportation.
BOKU main building: A-1180 Vienna, Gregor Mendel-Strasse 33
Facts and Figures (I) of BOKU Vienna
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Total budget: ~ EUR 100 mio.
External funds (2009): EUR 33 mio.
Number of ongoing projects: 750
Scientific publications (2009): ~2500
Co-operation contracts with partner
companies and universities world-wide: 331
Facts and Figures (II) of BOKU Vienna
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Major sites of BOKU
Vienna, Türkenschanze,
Muthgasse
Tulln
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Challenges for the knowledge society I (UNESCO Forum Occasional Paper Series Paper No. 4, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim and Marilena de Souza Chaui, 2003)
emergence of a new economic and productive paradigm most advanced economies are based on the greatest availability of knowledge knowledge and information became integrated into capital itself internationally recorded discipline-based knowledge took 1,750 years to
double for the first time, counting from the start of the Christian era; it then doubled in volume every 150 years and then every 50. It now doubles every five years.
It is estimated that every four years the amount of information available in the world doubles; as the analysts observe, however, we are only capable of giving attention to between about 5% and 10% of that information.
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Challenges for the knowledge society II (UNESCO Forum Occasional Paper Series Paper No. 4, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim and Marilena de Souza Chaui, 2003)
How to handle the knowledge increase? How to judge the relevance of the additional knowledge? Time-space compression: makes itself felt in universities, with reduced
graduation and post-graduation time and also less time for masters dissertations (political will and economic pressure). Increased speed in teaching, less time for the reception of the information.
The greater complexity of the knowledge calls for increased interdisciplinarity in teaching and research
Scarcity of time in an university for reflection, criticism and an examination of the instituted knowledge and possible ways of transforming or moving beyond
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Challenges for universities in the knowledge society
Knowledge generation Relevance of the studies Internalization of higher education: acting internationally in
research and teaching, but applying the knowledge to local and regional problems
Balance between the basic functions of teaching, research and service
Quality in research and teaching Improving the administration of higher education
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Higher education as basis for the regulation of the human population growth. Source: Popnet No. 41, IIASA 2010
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Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Christof Plutzar, Somone Gingrich, Wolfgang Lucht and Marina Fischer-Kowalski. 2007. Quantifying and mapping the global human appropriation of net primary production in Earth's terrestrial ecosystem.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 104: 12942-12947.
HANPP %: Human appropriation of net primary production.
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Malnutrion world wide in the year 2009; regions (in Billions), FAO 2009, The State of Food Insecurity in the World
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Reasons for the ICA-CASEE network
Enormous challenges for university development at present Bologna process Excellence in research, education and university management (increasing
competition between higher education institutions!) Specific challenges for life science universities to develop the basis for the
future development of mankind Food and water security, environmental protection Sustainable use of natural resources (soil, bioresources, water,..) Development of high-end technological methods in biotechnology
(biorefinery, renewable energy,....) Landscape development; town- and country planning And many more.....
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Reasons for the ICA-CASEE network EU-Strategy for the Danube Region
(http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperation/danube/index_en.htm)The European Council has formally asked the European Commission to prepare an EU
Strategy for the Danube Region before the end of 2010 : “Sustainable development should also be pursued through an integrated approach to the specific challenges facing particular regions (…).”
The Danube Region in this context refers to:Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria), Austria, the Slovak Republic, the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
What is the added value for other Member States?First of all, a better Danube Region will be better for the union as a whole. Secondly the EUSDR, tests a macro-region working method. It could be viewed as a pilot project for the rest of the EU, a show case for more efficient cooperation and coordination.
The Strategy is envisaged to be endorsed by Member States under the Hungarian presidency in the first half of 2011. However, it should be noted, that the Strategy will be an ongoing process and that the adoption of the Strategy will only mark the start of the implementation phase and not the end of the exercise.
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Why ICA? (Association for European Life Science Universities)
Founded in 1988 as the Interfaculty Committee Agraria, ICA, is a network of more than 60 life science universities, from the EU and neighbouring countries (European Higher Education Area).
ICA’s vision is to enhance the members’ success in the international market place, in Europe and globally, by providing a supportive environment to share experience, to cooperate in new ventures, and to benefit from the resulting synergy.
ICA also liaises with other European and international networks, and with international student associations.
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Why Central and South Eastern Europe?
Many historical links between universities are already active Region comprised of EU member states, candidate countries and
possible candidates Important region for the European Union development
Region of tremendous development in ecological, economical and societal respect
Region with a highly significant potential for further economical growth and improvement.
High cross-linking of economies (investors, multi-national companies,...)
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Regional distribution of founding members of ICA-CASEE
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BOKU Co-operation with CASEE partner countries, grouped by activity
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Major aims of the ICA-CASEE network
ICA-CASEE is a non profit organisation which aims to stimulate and support its member institutions in the development of a European dimension in education and research through the development of concerted actions and in engaging globally.
Fostering of regional university co-operation on all different levels and topics: Improving university management and development Improving teaching programmes and foster educational co-operations
between universities Leverage and encourage research co-operations using the programmes of
e.g. The EU Framework Joint Programming? new “Action”-Programs of Austria and neighbouring countries
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Universität für Bodenkultur WienRectorUniv.-Prof. DI Dr. Martin H. Gerzabek
Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, A-1190 ViennaTel.: +43 1 47654-1001, Fax: +43 1 [email protected] , www.boku.ac.at
Acknowledgement:
To all founding members of CASEE!!!
Margarita Calderon-Peter & her team,
The keynote speakers,
Thank you for your attention!