University - Business Forum 28-29 February 2008

Thursday, 28 February 2008

The first plenary University - Business Forum took place on 28 - 29 February 2008 in Brussels. It was attended by more than 280 participants and constitutes the first step to the set-up of a permanent platform for a structured dialogue between the relevant stakeholders.

This first forum addressed the following topics:

• Curricular development, and how it can lead to greater employability and an entrepreneurial mindset among graduates;
• Continuing education, and how to explore and improve cooperation between universities and companies in the provision of training/retraining programmes;
• Modernisation of governance structures within universities;
• Development of mobility, including student mobility, but also mobility of researchers and teaching staff, between academia and businesses, and vice versa.

Programme of the Forum (PDF format)

Contributions

List of participants (PDF format)

Forum report (PDF format)