Focus on Performance – Five Years of World Bank Support to Latvian Higher Education Reforms – Closing Event
DATE: April 23, 2018
LOCATION: George Soros Auditorium, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku Street 4a, Riga, Latvia
AGENDA:
12.15 – 13.00 Registration.
13.00 – 13.15 Opening of the Conference.
Līga Lejiņa, State Secretary, MoES and Cristian Aedo,
Manager, The World Bank
13.15 – 14.15 Session 1: “Financing and Governance”
Chair: Nina Arnhold, Senior Education Specialist,
The World Bank
14.15 – 14.35 Questions and Answers.
Chair: Jānis Vētra, Chairman of the Council of Higher Education
14.35 – 15.05 Coffee/tea break
15.05 – 16.20 Session 2: “Academic Careers”
Chair: Agrita Kiopa, Deputy State Secretary, MoES
16.20 – 16.50 Questions and Answers.
Chair: Jānis Vētra, Chairman of the Council of Higher Education
16.50 – 17.00 Key Learnings, Next Steps and Closure of the Event
Nina Arnhold, Senior Education Specialist, The World Bank
Agrita Kiopa, Deputy State Secretary, MoES
*The working languages of the Conference are English and Latvian. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in these languages
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Regional Roundtable on Internationalization in Higher Education
DATE: April 24, 2018
LOCATION: Riga Graduate School of Law, 2nd floor, Strelnieku Street 4k-2, Riga, Latvia
AGENDA:
9.00 – 9.15 Registration; coffee/tea
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome
Līga Lejiņa, State Secretary, MoES, Latvia
Carlos Pinerua, Country Manager for Poland and the Baltic States,
The World Bank
9.30 – 10.30 Introduction – where do we stand
Nina Arnhold, Senior Education Specialist, The World Bank
10.30 – 11.00 Internationalization – a global perspective on challenges and opportunities
Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee/tea break
11.20 – 13.50 Internationalization – from challenge to opportunity
Lauritz Holm-Nielsen, President of EuroScience and Rector
Emeritus of Aarhus University, Denmark
Tiina Vihma-Purovaara, Senior Ministerial Advisor,
MESC (video) / Jussi Kivisto, Adjunct Professor, University of Tampere, Finland
Stefan Bienefeld, Head of Division, Development Cooperation
and Transregional Programs, DAAD, Germany
Alessia Pozzi, Manager, Unity through Knowledge Fund, Croatia
13.50 – 14.00 Key Learnings, next steps and closure
Agrita Kiopa, Director, MoES
Nina Arnhold, Senior Education Specialist, The World Bank
*The working language of the Round Table is English.
