EAIR in a Changing World: EAIR Forever? The Baltic Sea Region Revisited Kari Hyppönen EAIR Forum Vilnius 2009.

EAIR in a Changing World: EAIR Forever?

The Baltic Sea Region Revisited

Kari Hyppönen

EAIR Forum Vilnius 2009

• EAIR (history, development)

• Environment

-Organisations (Professional/Institutional)

-Baltic Sea region

-EU initiatives linked up with the region

-no Bologna, Quality (ENQA etc)

• So what?

History

• AIR -1965 384 members

• 4000 members in 1500 institutions

• AAIR, CIRPA/ACPRI, DAIR, SAAIR, SEAAIR

• First AIR European Forum 1979 Paris

-26 participants from 12 countries (21 Europeans and five AIR members)

History

• Heads/Directors/VPs of Administration

Professors and Directors of Institutional Research

• part-time Secretariat CHEPS Twente 1985

Frans van Vught, Peter de Rooij, Hans Acherman (Peter Maassen)

• independent EAIR 1989 and The European Higher Education Society 2000

History

• Membership Directory and Newsletter

• TEAM 1995

Founding Editor Roddy Begg

• Monograph Series

• Secretariat moves to Amsterdam 1997

full-time Executive Manager Ella Kruzinga (now Hetty van Heeswijk era)

• joint events since 2000

Forums

• Nordic region

NUAS 1982, seminars since 1976

NUS 1995

• Uppsala 1982, Copenhagen 1985 (2008)

• Bergen 1988, Turku 1993 (Lund 1999)

• 1990's policy to locate Forums also in "new" regions

• many country "firsts"

Forums

• Zurich 1995, Budapest 1996, San Sebastian 1998, Berlin 2000

• Porto 2001, Barcelona 2004, Rome 2006

Valencia 2010

• Prague 2002, Riga 2005, Vilnius 2009, Warsaw 2011

• France: Paris 1979 and Lyon 1990

• Norway: Bergen 1988

Forums

• José-Ginés Mora Ruiz

• Janis Stonis and Aleksas Pikturna

Indrikis Muiznieks and Rimantas Vaitkus

Statistics

• Membership

-177 in 1990

-steady growth, then between 429 and 629 to about 500-550, 493 (496) in 2008

-100 from outside Europe

-"the Rome effect"

Statistics

• Membership

-Netherlands 152 (1995), UK 87 (1992), Sweden 64 (2000-02), Norway 64 (2006), Finland 48 (2006), USA 47 (2004), Denmark 38 (2006), Australia 36 (1995),

Switzerland 33 (1995), Ireland 29 (2003)

-more than 20 in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal and Spain

Membership 2004-08

Statistics

• Eastern Europe

-up in Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova

-down in Czech Republic and Hungary

-minimal in Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia

-Belarus and Ukraine?

Statistics

• Forum participation

-400+ in Trier 1989 and Lyon 1990

-320 in Turku 1993

-then lower, up to 378 in Porto 2001, sustained level higher than Turku, highs in Barcelona (450) 2004 and Rome (479) 2006

Forums 1993-2008

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Zurich 1995

Budapest 1996

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San Sebasti

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Lund 1999

Berlin 2000

Porto 2001

Prague 2002

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Barcelona 2004

Riga 2005

Rome 2006

Innsbruck

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Copenhagen 2008

Africa

Asia

Australia & New Zealand

East Europe

Middle East

Nordic

North America

South America

South Europe

Western Europe

Forums 2004-08

Geographical distribution of Forum Participation 2004 --2008

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Barcelona = 450 Riga = 367 Rome = 479 Innsbruck = 343 Copenhagen = 356

239 in Vilnius 2009

• Nordic countries 75

• Western Europe 73

• Southern Europe 5

• Eastern Europe 43

• Asia 6

• North America 19

• Australia (and NZ) 7

• Africa 11

Organisations

• Professional organisations

• Institutional organisations

• Membership

-Institutional

-Individual

-Mixed

• New professional groups and new organisations (Quality specialists?)

Organisations

• who decides on memberships?

• membership administration/participation

• who pays fees?

• opportunities

-vast variety of international events

-not all based on membership

-20-40 events marketed at the same time

-who decides where to go?

Professional organisations

• EAIE (European Association for International Education)

-1989, more than 1800 members

-membership overlaps with EAIR

-21st annual conference in Madrid on 16-19 September 2009

-35 workshops

-initiation/introduction to the profession

Organisations

• 11 session streams including -Accreditation and evaluation -Bologna

-Development cooperation

-Management & organisation

-Policy & strategy

-National education systems

• getting too big?

Organisations

• IROBALT

-1998, six countries, closed down in 2002

• EARMA (250/80), EIRMA, ARMA (UK, 1150), EUPRIO (437)

• CHER (Consortium of HE Researchers)

-1988, about 160 members in 30 countries

-membership overlaps with EAIR

-joint history, contribution to EAIR Forums

Organisations

• SRHE, AUA, AHUA

• IMUA (International Meeting of University Administrators)

-now a joint AUA and AHUA operation

-1981, 16th meeting in Vancouver in 2008

-participation about 250

-no membership, meetings open to all

-subject to available space and fees

Organisations

-meetings

-programmes overseen by a UK committee

-advised on topics and venues by an international advisory committee

-Beijing, Bath, Hong Kong, Waterloo, New Delhi, Sydney, Maryland, Twente, Singapore, Prague, Cape Town, Auckland, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Kingston and Vancouver

Organisations

• HUMANE (Heads of University Administration and Management in Europe)

-1997 by 27 pioneers

-among them many active EAIR members

-now 200 members in 20 countries

-almost all HUMANE members have left EAIR (with some important exceptions)

Institutional organisations

• ESMU (European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities)

• networks and projects

-DEAN, HUMANE, EDUPROF

-MODERN, EU-DRIVERS

MODERN (Eur Platform HE Modernisation)

-EAIR associate partner

-mapping, questionnaires and conferences

Organisations

• EUA (European University Association)

-more than 800 members in 46 countries

-2001 merger of CRE (Association of European Universities) and the Confederation of European Union Rectors' Conferences

-members early from Eastern Europe

-acronym and name changes vs. clients

Organisations

• EURASHE (polytechnics), Compostela Group of Universities, the Santander Group, the Utrecht Network, UNICA, ECIU, Coimbra Group, IRUN, LERU (20 carefully selected members)

• CBUR (Conference of Baltic University Rectors)

-1990, by 2001 82 full and six affiliated members, last conference in Tartu in 2001

Organisations

• Baltic Rectors' Conference

• the Rectors' Conference of BUP of Uppsala University

• next meeting on 15-16 October 2009

• teaching and research programme on sustainable development

• 225 institutions

Organisations

• Stephan Bathory Collegium

-1999, nine universities in Budapest, Bratislava, Brno, Kaliningrad, Cracow, Prague, Vilnius and Warsaw

-Vilnius University key actor

-no information on recent activities

-some of the members now in EEUN

Organisations

• EEUN (East-European University Network)

-meeting of Belarusian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian rectors in 2004

-meetings in Cracow and Lublin in 2005-06

-35 institutions, also in Lithuania and Slovakia

-no information on recent activities

Organisations

• CEEUN (Central and Eastern European University Network)

-for applied research on transition studies

• Now

-most geographical names already in use

-other regions have their own networks

(UNIMED etc.)

Organisations

• BSRUN (Baltic Sea Region University Network)

-2000, 16 universities, now 40 universities in seven countries

-evaluation before 10th anniversary in Turku in February 2010

-cooperation with NUAS, early contacts in 1990's with no concrete results

Organisations

• BSUA (Baltic Seminar of University Administrators)

-TEMPUS projects and IMHE's Management of Change programme for Central and Eastern Europe in 1990's

-discussions in 1999 of a group of 13

-first BSUA in Riga in 2000, then Kaunas, Tartu, Kaliningrad, Warsaw, Vilnius, St. Petersburg, Turku, Gdansk and Riga

Organisations

• joint BSRUN and EAIR events

-9th and 10th BSUA in Gdansk and Riga

-External Relations seminar at Warsaw School of Economics on 10-11 December 2009

-Business Relations

-Media Relations

• EAIR Forum in Warsaw in 2011

Organisations

• Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian networks

-the Baltic Graduate School

-2008, Social Sciences and Humanities

-Tallinn University, University of Latvia Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas)

• the Baltic Association of Summer Schools

-University of Tartu, Vilnius University, University of Latvia, Klaipeda University

Organisations

• Less interest in CEE Networks?

• New tasks like EU – Russia, Belarus, Ukraine cooperation: EEUN?

• Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation

Window consortia

-EU-Russia (University of Turku)

-EU-Belarus, Moldova,Ukraine (University of Deusto, Bilbao)

EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy

• Higher Education and Research

-to exploit the full potential of the region in research and innovations (coordination: Sweden and Poland); and

-to maintain and reinforce the attractiveness of the Baltic Sea region in particular through education (Germany), tourism and health

EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy

• Baltic Sea Fund for Innovation and Development (lead: NCM)

• Enhancement of cooperation of between the (regional) universities (Fast Track)

• Development of joint curricula and the sharing of educational resources (FT)

• Identification and removal of barriers hampering mobility of researchers and students

EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy

• University cooperation

-based on existing networks

-BSRUN and BUP with UHI Millennium Institute given as a model

-the Northern Dimension Institute could also provide opportunities for networking

-leadership: BUP with Lithuania (tbc)

EU Eastern Partnership

• EU and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine

• Declaration of the Prague Eastern Partnership Summit on 7 May 2009

• increased EU financial support is agreed

• Comprehensive Institution Building Programmes (training, technical assistance and innovative measures)

EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy and Eastern Partnership

• Swedish Presidency since 1st July 2009

• need to be coordinated with EU joint actions and programmes with Russia

• Eastern Partnership: Poland and Sweden

• Northern Dimension: Finland

• much will depend on the importance of the Baltic Sea region to Poland and Germany

CBSS

• members: all countries by the Baltic Sea, Norway and Iceland with EU participation

• 1992, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Uffe Elleman-Jensen

• BSPC, BSSSC, HELCOM, VASAB, Baltic Development Forum, Baltic Sea Forum, ScanBalt and UBC (Union of Baltic Cities)

• EuroFaculties: Riga, Tartu and Vilnius; Kaliningrad; and Pskov (PPI and PVI)

CBSS

• the future of EuroFaculties

-continuation of the Pskov project?

-EuroFaculties in Belarus or Ukraine?• increased interest in direct cooperation with

Belarus which now has observer status in CBSS

• European Humanities University (EHU) in exile in Vilnius with funding from of NCM and individual countries

CBSS

• Lithuanian Presidency since 1st July 2009• Objectives

-lift barriers for cooperation, encourage more freedom of movement of people and exchange of ideas, participation of Belarus in the EP Initiative and dialogue with EU

-Kaliningrad region and Belarus have to become full-fledged members of the region

So what?

• EAIR has consolidated its place in the family of organisations

• unique target group mixing theory, policy and practice

• a mixed target group is a mixed blessing

• how important is EAIR to its members?

• why do members join and stay?

So what?

• we serve a purpose, no need to reinvent

• relatively steady Forum participation

• core group of members (big enough?)

• almost half pay their fees without Forum

Still

• almost total lack of interest in EC membership and elections

• responsibilities, costs and rewards

So what?

• how to find Forum hosts?

• Forums only not enough (too few, takes too much time, too big?)

• proactive strategy and a clearly agreed division of labour between EC and Executive Manager/Secretariat

• environmental scanning and contacts with other organisations (France?)

So what?

• joint events with other organisations (BSRUN/EAIR example)

• Southern part of Eastern Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia? Global AIR?

• who covers membership and Forum fees?

• university policy on individual memberships?

• central administration budget?

So what?

• NUAS/NUS/BSRUN policy: institutional membership serving many target groups

• how do universities tell about their memberships (web page, intro, [logo])

• EUA, Coimbra, UNICA, Utrecht, LERU (IRUN [Nijmegen], U4 Network [Groningen]), IAU (International Association of Universities, 1950, 600+ members in about 120 countries)

So what?

• additional sources of funding?

• EU funding and joint actions (MODERN;

professional development programmes)

• cost-effective Secretariat (synergy with EAIE [also in activities?])

• fees rising (bigger Secretariats; Coimbra)

• publications policy (TEAM and monographs electronic?)

So what?

• analysis of EAIR regions and statistics• membership or event organisation?• event coordination (IMHE/OECD, CHER,

EAIR) for increased attendance

(Valencia 1-4 Sept, IMHE 13-15 Sept. 2010)• the importance of being truly European and

international (balance of meetings in different regions)

• benefits vs. loyalty/affiliation (pin?)

So what?

• this year 20th/30th anniversary of EAIR and many national/local celebrations

• VU 430th anniversary, Millennium of Lithuania, Cultural Capital of Europe

• human chain, Baltic Way, 600 kms, one million people, Tallinn-Riga-Vilnius, 23 August 1989

• Berlin Wall 9.11.1989 (Finland 1809)

So, will EAIR be forever?

• Yes, with partners like this, it will.

• So far, so good.

• Thank you for your support to EAIR

and

• Thank you for your kind attention!