1. Maria Helena Nazaré President of EUA Former Rector Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. The importance of Third Mission activities in European Universities

2.  The International Context: Demographics (and other challenging) Issues  Political Economy of Universities. (Political Economics is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the non-market, collective activity of individulas and organisations)  Making the Knowledge Triangle Work: Ensuring that the University has a Positive Impact on the Region.

3. Economy & Jobs creation Research Education Third Mission Activities Act together

4. Over the next decade the percentage of the population over the age of 60 will grow to over 30% to 40% in the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia. Ageing populations present workforce challenges (qualification) and need higher support from the public purse (health and pensions). Global disparities in wealth and economic opportunity are driving population migration, resulting in growing immigrant and minority populations that both diversify and challenge existing cultures, economies, and politics. (Education) The gap between the very rich and the very poor is widening. Better and stronger policies for improvement of social inclusion and cohesion are needed. Demographics: (It’s happening NOW!)

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6. Concerns (Glion 2011)  Economic, geopolitical, and demographic forces could drive a massive restructuring of higher education enterprise, similar to what is experienced by other sectors (banking, communication, energy).  Movement toward a revenue-driven, market-responsive higher education system since there is no way that our current tax systems can support both massification and quality in the face of other needs (e.g., of the elderly).  Market forces are rapidly overwhelming public policy and public investment in determining the future course of higher education

7. Universities: Key stakeholders in building an inclusive knowledge society  Educating knowledge workers and researchers  Diverse missions in basic and collaborative research  Interdisciplinary research skills and expertise  Embeddedness in cities and regions as components of social and economic development  Focal points for dialogue and knowledge exchange with society  International cooperation building upon institutional historical and cultural links – strengths and capacities

8.  Need to dramatically broaden participation in higher education to build a competitive workforce. Tertiary and Pos Graduate. Continuing and Life Long. Integrate minorities and build inter generational bridges. A pillar for regional development.  Build world-class research Universities. Competition for brains is getting tougher. Need to examine the rationale. Cream needs milk.  Maintain parity of esteem among HE Institutions. Are there cases of same umbrella Institution? Challenges to Systems and Institutions

9. Can it be done? YES Is it easy? NO Needed Tools: Vision Leadership Institutional Autonomy Sustainable Funding

10. Correlations (may be shown!?) between autonomy and  performance  quality  degrees of income diversification  successful internationalisation Institutional autonomy  enables universities to determine and pursue strategic priorities according to their strengths;  does not automatically lead to better performance but is an important requisite. Why Institutional Autonomy?

11.  is a complex concept that consists of various interconnected elements: Organisational, financial, academic and staffing.  is contingent on the diverse cultural, political, legal and historical backgrounds of Europe’s HE systems;  cannot be measured objectively.  There is not just one model! It is context depend.  Leadership is essential Institutional Autonomy? What is it?

12.  Divergence between practical and formal autonomy. Often times is not the case of NOT having Autonomy, but lacking to use it.  Need of a new set of skills and competences in leadership and management.  The level of Autonomy has increased over the last decade. However austerity measures have affected negatively sttafing and financial autonomy. Challenges

13. Funding Trends: state of play On average, almost ¾ of universities’ funding comes from national/regional public funding sources

14. OECD Conference Higher Education in Cities and Regions. PORTUGAL; AVEIRO Economy: The region centre represents 20% of the national GDP. Major sectors are tourism, ceramics, food, electronics & telecomunications, shoes, automobile parts and metalomechanics. SME’s mainly plus a few multinationals. The Aveiro lagoon (Ria de Aveiro) is of great importance in the economy of the region. Higher Education: HE is binary system made of University and of Politechnic Education.

16. Minho   UTAD Porto  Aveiro  Coimbra   UBI  Évora Lisboa   Algarve  Madeira  Açores UTL  UNL  We can afford diversity within! Despite the odds?! We are now a well reputed university integrating university departments and politechnic schools with excellent performance research wise and catering (2012/2013) for 14768 students. Aberta 

17. Strategic selection of scientific domains 1970’s Telecommunications. Materials Science Teacher Training Environmental Sciences & Engineering. Regional Planning Biotechnology Biomedical Sciences Nanosciences Medicine (à la Imperial) Regional Impact CTT, PT… Telecom cluster Ceramics. Tiles, China and pottery Integration of migrants, LLL,… The Lagoon and the Coastal area. Tourism, sustainable devellopment, biodiversity…. Food etc

19. Leading the Change  UA model incorporates University Departments and Polytechnic Schools (1st school in 1997). Strong support from the region.  In 2003 the needs of the region in terms of qualification of the work force, were discussed. A programme aimed at post- secondary education was started. Now run by the Polytechnic Schools. Strongly supported by the Business, District and Municipalities. EDUCATION (Fighting unemployment; Retraining actives; integrating migrants) School of Design and Technology – ESAN. School of Technology and Management – ESTGA. School of Health – ESSA. Institute of Accountancy – ISCAA

20. Ovos Moles – traditional Aveiro sweets

21. cicecotemai3n aveiro institute of nanotechnology professors 8 researchers 20 posdocs 20 phd 67 professors 54 researchers 29 posdocs 84 phd 108 professors 35 researchers 8 posdocs 17 phd 40 1) U Cambridge 2) Imperial College 3) U Manchester 4) EPFL 5) U Pierre & Marie Curie 6) ETH 7) TU Denmark 8) U Groningen 9) TU Delft 10) TU Eindhoven 11) Karlsruhe IT 12) U Oxford 13) U Sheffield 14) U Aveiro ~ 490 Citations Materials Sciences

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