Day 1 – November 16th
All planned activities will be held at Lodz University of Technology - 217/223 Wólczańska Street, within walking distance from the Holiday Inn Hotel. Sessions and workshops will take place in the IT Centre - Centrum Technologii Informatycznych / CTI, Building B-19 and Fabryka Inżynierów, Building A-18. Dinner will be held in the Library - Biblioteka, Building B-22.
09:00 – 09:45 Registration & welcome coffee [Building B-19, ground floor]
09:45 – 10:15 Opening ceremony - welcome speeches [Building B-19, ground floor, room 001]
- Rector of Lodz University of Technology
- prof. dr hab. inż. Wojciech Wolf, Honorary Consul of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
- Liga Kuzmane, #europehome project
10:15 – 13:30 Plenary sessions [Building B-19, ground floor, room 001]
- Graduate employability - different contexts and expectations (mgr inż. Monika Domańska, AGH University of Science and Technology: Poland)
- Influence of modern teaching methods on students' performance and soft skills (doc. dr inż. Tomasz Saryusz-Wolski, dr inż. Dorota Piotrowska, Lodz University of Technology: Poland)
11:45 – 12:00 Break
- Common university IT infrastructure - challenges and opportunities (dr inż. Przemysław Sękalski, Lodz University of Technology: Poland)
- Intertemporal Choice: Risk Aversion and Portfolio Diversification (Yochanan Shachmurove, The City College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York: USA)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch and networking activities [Building B-19, ground floor]
14:30 – 16:00 Workshop session
All workshops will be held simultaneously - each participant may choose 1 out of 3 sessions:
- Gamification in Education (Martins Jansons, Collective Intelligence Research Centre: Latvia) [Building B-19]
- How to improve competitiveness in the current labour market through personal career management and strengthening CV? (Elisabeth Pereira, University of Aveiro: Portugal) [Building B-19]
- Creativity skill improvement by applying non-formal education methods of entrepreneurship skill teaching in university curricula (Kristine Berzina, University of Latvia: Latvia) [Building B-19]
16:15– 17:45 Workshop session
All workshops will be held simultaneously - each participant may choose 1 out of 3 sessions:
- Design thinking - developing skills sought by employers (Dorota Bociąga, Anna Laska, Krzysztof Jastrzębski, DT4U at Lodz University of Technology: Poland) [Building A-18]
- Organisational behaviour and leadership (Vikrant Janawade, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis: France) [Building B-19]
- How entrepreneurial and innovative is your HEI? HEInnovate - a self-assessment tool (Liga Kuzmane, University of Alcala, Spain) [Building B-19]
18:00 – 19:00 Campus tour
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner on campus [Building B-22, 3rd floor]
Day 2 – November 17th
All planned activities will be held at Lodz University of Technology - 217/223 Wólczańska Street, within walking distance from the Holiday Inn Hotel. Plenary sessions will be held in the IT Centre - Centrum Technologii Informatycznych / CTI, Building B-19.
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome coffee [Building B-19, ground floor]
09:15 – 11:00 Plenary sessions [Building B-19, ground floor, room 001]
- How to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and labour market reality? Practical ways to address the mismatches of skills (Ignacio Bravo, University of Alcala: Spain)
- 21st century skills: what students need to learn to succeed professionally? (Elisabeth Pereira, University of Aveiro: Portugal)
- University-Business cooperation in practice (Marija Drinjakovic, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis: France; Liga Kuzmane, University of Alcala: Spain)
11:00 – 12:00 Poster session [Building B-19, ground floor]
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch and networking activities [Building B-19, ground floor]
12:30 – 16:00 City tour