The University Alliance EPICUR - European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions - invites you to the networking conference "Diversity of Regions"!
From May 18th to 20th, 2022 the EPICUR team of BOKU welcomes eight EPICUR partners from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Poland and Denmark at the BOKU campus. In addition to internal workshops for teambuilding and in-depth discussions on the different work packages (research, teaching, mobility, interculturality and languages, regions and entrepreneurship, PR, etc.), all rectors, associated partner networks and invited guests will gather for the conference on May 19th:
13:00 REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
Entrance SR 29 (Ilse-Wallentin-Haus)
14:00 WELCOME SPEECH & INTRODUCTION
BOKU Rector Eva Schulev-Steindl and President Michel Deneken or Vice President Jean Marc Planeix
EPICUR welcomes six new associated partners: Eucor - the European Campus, ICA-CASEE, ICA Network for Central and South East Europe, BSUN - Black Sea Universities Network, AER - the Assembly of the European Regions, ESN - the Erasmus Student Network Europe and ECOLAS - the European Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
14:45 KEYNOTE
on Regional Cooperation from the Assembly of the European Regions (Lilijana Madjar, Director at Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region)
15:30 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING
16:00 KEYNOTE
on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Billy Batware, Regional Academy of the United Nations)
16:45 PRESENTATION OF EDI MEASURES
17:15 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING
17:45 PANEL DISCUSSION
18:30 DINNER & CULTURAL EVENING
Franz Schwackhöfer House (Aula and SR6)
The networking conference will conclude on May 20th with the planting of the EPICUR tree at the Türkenschanze as a symbol for sustainability, biodiversity and a healthy urban climate.
