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| 15-19 September 2019 - Budapest SEFI Annual Conference 2019 welcomed almost 400 participants from Europe and overseas at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and tackled the challenging theme “Complexity is the new normality“.
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| The conference featured 135 Concept Papers and 61 Research papers, 33 workshops and four keynotes: EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics (HU), Mrs Valeria Csepe, President of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Committee (HU), Jian Lin, Deputy Director of the Center for Engineering Education, Tsinghua University (PRC), and Xavier Kestelyn, Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs, School of Engineering, Arts et Métiers ParisTech (FR).
SEFI would like to sincerely thank the local organising committee with the Vicerector Balazs Vince Nagy, Dr Aniko Kalman, Mrs Adrienne Fuzesi, Mrs Dora Fekete and Ms Linda Citterio for their efforts and excellent cooperation over the past year . |
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| As of 1 October, SEFI has a new President in the person of Prof Yolande Berbers from KU Leuven, new vice president Prof Hannu-Matti Järvinen from Tampere University and four new board members: Prof Greet Langie from KU Leuven, Dr Gillian Saunders from TU Delft , Dr Jan van der Veen, University of Twente, Mr Antoine Lanthony from Supmeca Paris. The following Board members were re-elected: Prof Seweryn Spalek, Dr Neil Cooke and Dr Fredrik Georgsson. The general assembly was presented with new special interest group (SIG) chairs and co-chairs: Dr Inês Direito - chair of SIG on Gender and Diversity, Assist. Prof Calvin Rans - chair of SIG on Open and Online Education; Dr Roland Tormey - co-chair of SIG on Ethics
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| SEFI offers an opportunity to delve into specific topics of engineering education with the Special Interest Groups.At the annual conference in Budapest, the groups organised multiple workshops and held well-attended meetings open to new members. Following the conference, the groups are ready for another year of activities, projects, common publications and exchanges on their current research and interests.We encourage you to join our groups and to make the selection easier, here is a summary of the upcoming group activities.
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| The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is the highest distinction SEFI can bestow. The Medal is awarded once a year to a living person who has made an outstanding contribution of international significance to engineering education. This year, SEFI awarded the medal to EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Mr Tibor Navracsics. |
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| The SEFI Fellowship Award recognises meritorious service to engineering education in Europe. In 2019 the fellowship was awarded to the following three outstanding individuals (motivation):
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| Prof Anne-Marie Jolly France |
| | Prof José Carlos Quadrado Portugal |
| | Prof Erik de Graaff The Netherlands |
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| The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award is given by to individual teachers, or a team of teachers, of higher engineering education institutions members of SEFI, in recognition of open-minded development of curriculum, learning environments or tools, novel didactics, methods or systems in engineering studies.This year the SEFI Maffioli committee selected Mr André Baier, lecturer at TU Berlin for Blue Engineering Initiative.
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| The Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) Educational Department organised this summer the BEST Symposia on Education (BSE) in four European countries. The topic of the conference, related to the A-STEP 2030 project, was "Diversity in STEM Education". This topic was approached in different angles:
- Athens BSE: "Cultural Diversity",
- Skopje BSE: "Racial and Ethnic Diversity",
- Brno BSE: "Students with Disabilities in STEM Education" and
- Aveiro BDE: "Gender Diversity" were discussed
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| High-quality PREFER contributions at the SEFI 2019 Conference |
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| The PREFER team was well represented at the past SEFI 2019 Conference organised in Budapest. The PREFER project team members presented 4 research papers and 1 interactive workshop. The high-quality contributions received appreciative comments from the engineering education colleagues. With their comparative study, Mariana Leandro Cruz (TU Delft), Sofie Craps (KU Leuven) and Darren Carthy (TU Dublin) won the Best Student Paper Award. |
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| ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MEMBERS |
Call for organisers: SEFI 2022 and onwards |
SEFI Institutional members are invited to send a candidature to organise an Annual Conference from 2022 onwards. Letter of intent needs to be signed by the rector or president of the submitting institution and sent to SEFI Secretary General. For 2022, the letter needs to be received before 31 October 2019. For further information you may contact the SEFI HQ and refer to the SEFI Annual Conference Handbook. |
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| #EUInvestInKnowledge
15 university organisations joined forces to advocate for increased budget for the new Horizon Europe programme (the successor of H2020) aiming at European research. Read the common statement and you may also sign up to the cause here!
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| Deadline for abstracts: 29 November 2019
25-29 May 2020 - Opatia, HR. "Engineering education" invites all researchers and practitioners to share their activities, efforts, results and insights related to education of engineers. In particular the following topics are highly encouraged: Educational Tools, Educational Methods, Development of Curriculum, Use of Multimedia, Simulations, (Self)Assessment, Virtual Learning, Environments, Internships.
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| The industry-first program aims to develop and grow the future workforce across industries: Capgemini, Dassault Systèmes and University of Adelaide today announced that they have signed an agreement to launch a collaborative education program to develop skills for the future workforce in the Marine and Offshore sector. The program, an industry-first, aims to create business value by equipping people with future skills needed to help compete in tomorrow’s economy. |
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| A-STEP PROJECT meeting
Helsinki, Finland
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| 08-11 November 2019 - Brisbane, AUS. The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) will host the 30th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, AAEE2019, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC). The topic this year is Educators Becoming Agents of Change: Innovate, Integrate, Motivate.
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| 11 September 2019 - Brussels, BE. Engineers Europe Advisory Group's First Anniversary at the European Economic and Social Committee's premises. We had the honor to welcome within our consortium 10 new partners who signed the Letter of Intent. The Engineers Europe Advisory Group can now count a total of 27 signatories, one year after its creation.
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Mariya Gabriel, who served as the Commissioner for ‘Digital Single Market’ in the Juncker Commission, was nominated on 10 September as European Commissioner for ‘Innovation and Youth’, in the von der Leyen Commission. This new portfolio would cover research, education, innovation, youth culture and sports. Education and research will therefore be joined under the responsibility of a single Commissioner, who would rely on the support of DG EAC and DG RTD, which would continue as distinct entities, according to the mission letter from von der Leyen to the Commissioner-designate.
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The EU has invested an additional €17.6 million to support over 8,500 newly selected African students and staff to participate in Erasmus+ in 2019. The total number of exchanges between Africa and Europe now counts 26 247 since the beginning of the programme in 2014 and is on track to meeting the 2020 target of supporting 35 000 people, as announced in the Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs.
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