CIVIS is also an Alliance for the staff of our member universities, we we want to give you the opportunity to share experience, knowledge and skills with your international peers. Our workshops and training courses offer professional development opportunities related to administrative, technical, management and paedogogical roles. Many take the form of Erasmus+ Staff Weeks, incorporating a short visit to another member to meet your coleagues and learn together.
Read more about our upcoming courses below and take this opportunity to grow within CIVIS!
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Description
Presentation of lessons learned over the successful implementation of multiple EMJM programmes with multiple partners and high volumes of applications, including real-life scenarios to present the key considerations, both academic and practical, necessary to successfully implement an EMJM programme.
Managing, teaching and administrative challenges of a pan European course.
Targeted audience
Academic and administrative staff who have secured funding for the EMJM.
Format
The event will be held online on Zoom. It will be organised into a mix of PowerPoint presentations and interactive sessions.
Date of the event
The event will take place on 21 June 2022 at 15:00-16:30 CET.
The presentation will be about the UoG (CoSS) approach to EMJM application preparation historically (50:50 with academic and professional support working together) while also looking at the emerging picture of priorities for applications in the new funding round (2021-27).
Targeted audience
Academic willing to apply and professional staff who will support them in the process.
Format
This event will be held online.
Date of the event
The event will take place on 19 May 2022 at 15:30-16:30 CET.
The General Data Protection Regulation applies throughout the EU. It should therefore be interesting for all CIVIS universities how data protection issues are clarified at the individual locations. There may be supra-regional data protection bodies that are involved. And/or there are data protection officers at the individual universities, possibly also outsourced. The question of how data protection issues are communicated within the university and how data protection questions are passed on from the scientific community to the responsible offices should also be considered. The aim of the exchange is to present and reflect on the university's own solutions and to find out how the situation at the university can be improved. IT-related details of data protection should not be discussed in the group, at least not primarily. Concrete data protection issues, on the other hand, could be discussed in greater depth if they are of interest to the group. The fourth session should also serve the purpose of evaluating the previous exchange and discussing the desire or need for a continuation, possibly with changes in the format. It should then also be clarified whether and how technical data protection could be included in the general or supplementary exchange.
Targeted audience
Data protection officers, persons in computer and legal departments or other administration related to (primarily non-technical) data protection.
No more than three people from each CIVIS university should attend if possible.
Format
The event will be held online.
Dates of the event
17 March 2022 at 15:00 CET
12 April 2022 at 15:00 CET
7 July 2022 at 15:00 CET
29 September 2022 at 15:00 CET
Registration deadline
The registration is closed. For further information, contact Juergen Rottenecker (juergen.rottenecker@uni-tuebingen.de) at the University of Tübingen.
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Description
Libraries for CIVIS - Sapienza Erasmus Staff Week for librarians and information professionals
The Staff Week will focus on the support of libraries for the CIVIS alliance objectives. The aim is to bring together librarians and library directors from the CIVIS universities in order to identify points of connection and a common basis for cooperation (e.g. users’ services, libraries and learning spaces, bibliographic and electronic resources, e-resources licences, open-access policies, software in use, ongoing activities, etc.)
Expected deliverables: cooperation projects, common search & access platform, seamless library services, knowledge and experiences exchange, shared management practices.
Targeted audience
Librarians and information professionals.
Format & date of the event
The event will be held in Rome, Italy, at Sapienza Università di Roma. It will take place on 23-27 May 2022.
Costs related to the mobility of participants attending this training will be covered by CIVIS.
Registration
Registration is closed.
The event will be moved forward in time and we will return with a new date as soon as possible
Description
The purpose of the event is to jointly explore student influence, focusing on student representation, and how it could contribute to enhance the quality of CIVIS courses and programs. By student influence we mean how students in different ways can participate in and influence the creation and further development of courses and study programmes as well as actively influence their study situation. The introduction of the event will cover different forms of student influence, such as student representation, course and program evaluations, student unions and student councils. It will also include a presentation of the CIVIS Student Council, which gathers students from all CIVIS universities to report and discuss relevant issues facing CIVIS. Next, we will discuss “Why student representation?” and get some good examples from different CIVIS universities of how they facilitate student representation. The meeting will end with a discussion of how to work further with the matter.
Targeted audience
Hub Council Coordinators, Work Package Leaders for WP2 and WP8, Project Managers at each CIVIS University and Coordinators from Aix Marseille University.
1 or 2 experts of students representation (or similar) from each of the CIVIS universities.
Date of the event
6 April 2022 at 13:00-16:00 CET.
Format
The event will be held online.
Registration deadline
The event will be moved forward in time and we will return with a new date as soon as possible
Contact person
Anna-Karin Björling (anna-karin.bjorling@su.se), Analyst and Expert of quality assurance and student representation, Office of the President, Stockholm University.
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Description
The welcome activities are events that introduce students to the student life at the university. The activities are designed to assist students during their new student phase so they gain knowledge of practicalities and of student life. For international students there are also activities aimed at introducing them to their new home town and country. The two day activity will be based on exchange of experiences and best practises on how to welcome new students and on orientation activities. Each participating university will host a session where they share their experiences on welcoming students and how these activities are carried out at their university. The sessions will all be held by Zoom but each university can decide on the format for the session and e.g. mix presentations with break-out-room discussions and other dynamic activities. The length of the sessions will depend on the number of participating universities.
Targeted audience
Colleagues involved in welcome activities and introduction for new international and/or local student.
Format
This event will be held online.
Date of the event
27 April 2022, 13:00 - 16:00 CET
28 April 2022, 09:00 - 12:00 CET
Registration
Registration is closed.
Contact person
Tina Larsson (tina.larsson@su.se), International Student Recruitment Manager at Stockholm University
Registration is closed
Description
The staff week will consist of presentations by both the hosting team in Aix Marseille Université and the participants for the week. There will also be visits to selected libraries. The themes covered during the staff Library week will include (but may not be limited to): teaching information literacy skills, library spaces and service design, special collections, open science.
Targeted audience
For library professionals with varied backgrounds working in universities or other research-oriented libraries with an interest in sharing ideas, benchmarking of practices and networking with international colleagues
15 participants max
Format & date of the event
The event will be held in Marseille, France, at Aix-Marseille Université. It will take place on 20-24 June 2022.
The purpose of this CIVIS week on « well-being at work » would be to brainstorm and propose some actions for the CIVIS colleagues and students. On the programme, ULB would first share the collective work being carried out lately on the subject. On the second day, participants would actively interact to foster dialogue and debate, being challenged by expert external consultants. The afternoon would be dedicated to a social activity to mingle and better know each other. On Friday morning, we would put forward with Isabelle Mazzara, the ULB General Secretary, some concrete actions for well-being at work and the prevention of negative stress at the CIVIS partner universities.
Targeted audience
A maximum number of 16 participants will be accepted.
Format & date of the event
The event will be held in Brussels, Belgium. It will take place on 27-29 April 2022 (lunch to lunch).
Costs related to the mobility of participants attending this training will be covered by CIVIS.
Registration
Registration is closed.
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Description
Staff mobility week for administrative staff at faculty/departments of CIVIS universities to meet in person, share procedures, good practices, solve problems fine tune management of student mobilities etc. Each participant should present to colleagues the procedures underlying the implementation of student mobility with CIVIS partners in his/her university, difficulties encountered, proposal for improvement. A session should be dedicated to practicalities of mobility within multiple degrees which will be implemented in the future academic years, in order to compare approaches in the different universities. Finally, meetings at specific faculties should also be organised to allow for comparison of academic offers and course catalogues.
Targeted audience
Staff at faculty/departments of CIVIS universities
Max number of participants: 14-20 participants
Format & date of the event
The event will be held in Rome, Italy, at Sapienza Università di Roma. It will take place on 22-24 June 2022 lunch to lunch.
Costs related to the mobility of participants attending this training will be covered by CIVIS.
The purpose of the event is to jointly explore appropriate measures to combat sexual harassment in academia and to exchange experience regarding the university's handling of cases concerning sexual harassment.
Measures against gender-based violence and sexual harassment is an area that is included in the universities’ Gender Equality Plan (GEP). The introduction of the event will cover the national research study on gender-based violence and sexual harassment in academia in Sweden. The study is the first of its kind in Sweden and its results aim to contribute to an academia free from sexual harassment. The event will continue with presentations from the participants regarding the procedures in cases regarding sexual harassment at each university. We will focus on both the student and employee perspectives.
Targeted audience
Equality officers, Managers of Human Resources or other persons responsible for equality work at the university, Analysts and Administrators. We hope to welcome at least 2–3 participants from each CIVIS alliance partner.
Format
This event will be held online.
Date of the event
The event will take place on 10 May 2022 at 13:00 - 16:00 CET.
Parasto Rosencrantz (parasto.rosencrantz@su.se), Personnel specialist and expert on equal terms, Human Resources Office, Stockholm University.
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Description
Teaching roles in Higher Education entail regular interaction with students and colleagues from a variety of geographical and academic cultures. This workshop will offer a space to identify and overcome barriers to successful and empathetic intercultural collaboration in the international classroom. Workshop participants will be encouraged to reflect critically on intercultural theory and their own professional experience. It will introduce concepts such as small culture formation, power distance, low and high context cultures and facilitate the development of pedagogical solutions to intercultural impasses.
Targeted audience
No prior theoretical knowledge or practical experience of intercultural collaboration is required.
The workshop is particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach diverse international student cohorts.
Max. of participants: 30
Format
The event will be held online.
Date of the event
The event will take place on 4 May 2022, 11:00 - 13:00 ECT.
