PROGRAMME

Thursday, 24th September 2015

Venue: Centro de Estudos Avanzados–CEA (Parque de Vista Alegre, str. Salvadas)

14.45 15.00

Registration to the XXI General Assembly

15.00 15.30

Official opening of the XXI General Assembly by the Rector Magnificus of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Prof. Dr Juan M. Viaño Rey, and by the President of the Compostela Group of Universities, Prof. Dr Maurits van Rooijen

  


GENERAL COUNCIL MEETING

 

15.30 – 17.00General Council meeting – Part I

1. Reading and approval of the minutes of the previous General Council meeting (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, 25th-27th September 2014)
2. Presentation of the applicant member universities
3. Groningen Declaration
4. Annual Report of the CGU activities
5. Financial report

17.00 – 17.30

Coffee break

17.30 – 18.00General Council meeting – Part II

6. Presentation of the results of the Poznan Declaration
7. New proposals and actions
8. IV Video Contest and awarding of diplomas to the winning student’s group (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)

18.00 – 19.00

Elections for the CGU Presidency and presentation of the new President and Executive Committee of the network

19.00 Closure of the General Council
  
  
 


Venue: Pazo de Raxoi (Praza do Obradoiro)

20.00Official reception at the City Hall of Santiago de Compostela by the Mayor
 


Venue: San Francisco Hotel Monumento (Campillo de San Francisco, no. 3)

 Buffet dinner and Galician wine
 ‘Music on the Way to Compostela’: Performance by the group of traditional Galician music ‘Alxibeira’
 

 

Friday, 25th September 2015

 
08.30Bus service from the hotel to the venue


Venue: bldg. CINC – Cidade da Cultura de Galicia

Simultaneous translation service available during the sessions

 

CONFERENCE ‘LEARNING BY WALKING THE SMART WAY’

 Meeting room no. 1

09.00 – 09.15

Formal opening

Prof. Dr Juan M. Viaño Rey, Rector Magnificus of the University of Santiago de Compostela
Incoming President of the Compostela Group of Universities.
H.E. Mr Román Rodríguez González, Regional Minister of the Xunta de Galicia for Culture, Education and University Development

 

FORUM ‘THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY’

Joint activity CEA-CGU 

  Meeting room no. 1

09.15 – 11.30

Plenary session

Chair by Prof. Dr Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, USC

‘Learning by Walking the Smart Way: Towards the need to re-think higher education’
Mr. Francisco Marmolejo, Tertiary Education Coordinator at the World Bank

Europe and its Universities in a global world’
H.E. Ms. Martine Reicherts, Director-General for Education and Culture at the European Commission

‘Circulation of researchers: a European perspective’
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the European Research Council

‘Self- regulated evaluation and ongoing progress of the University’
Mr Miguel Ángel Escotet, President of Afundacion and General Director for RSC and Communication of ABANCA

Debate

 

11.30 – 12.00

Hall of meeting room no. 1

Coffee break

 

COMPOSTELA DIALOGUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The Way to Santiago: A Smart Learning Route’

Meeting room no. 1

12.00 – 14.00‘Rising intolerance in the European Union’
 

Chair by Prof. Dr Mercedes Brea López, Professor of Romanic Phylology and
member of the Steering Committee of the Campus Ciudadanía of the USC

 Plenary session
 

‘The usefulness of the useless knowledge’
Prof. Nuccio Ordine, philosopher and professor at the University of Calabria

 

Round table

 

‘Diversity as a strength and a weakness’
Prof. Dr Maurits van Rooijen, Former President of the Compostela Group of Universities

Opening minds through education’
H.E. Ms Martine Reicherts, Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission

‘Rising intolerance: misfortune or lethargy?’
H.E. Ms Kateřina Lukešová, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic in Spain

H.E. Mr Mark Anthony Micallef, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Malta in Spain

 

Conclusions and proposals

 

Convention hall

14.00 – 15.30Lunch  (Optional guided visit to the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia)

 

 

‘COMPOSTELA CAFÉ’

Meeting room no. 1

 15.30 – 17.45

‘Compostela Café’: Thought provoking interventions

Presided by: Mr Rafael Sánchez Bargiela, Director-Manager of S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo

Chaired by: Mr Jean Pierre Roose, CGU Delegate in Brussels,
and Prof. Dr Inmaculada Fortanet, CGU Vice-president

‘Erasmus+: successes, challenges and future priorities’
Ms Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, Head of ERASMUS+ Team of the European Commission

‘GaragErasmus: fly to the place where you dream of working’
Mr Francesco Cappè, Vicechairman of garagErasmus Foundation
Mr Miguel Ángel Escotet, Director for Corporative Social Relations at ABANCA

Thematic tables: Presentation of initiatives and proposals

     1.  The Way as an ‘Academic Route’
     2.  Using the Way for Innovative Knowledge
     3.  Smart Projects on the Way

 

  

 

17.45 – 18.00

 

Coffee break

  
18.00 –18.30

Presentation of the venue for the XXII General Assembly

Formal closure of the XXI General Assembly and awarding of the Marble Compostela Shell to the Rector Magnificus of the University of Santiago de Compostela by the President of the Compostela Group of Universities

18.30
Bus service from the venue to the hotel


Venue: Colexio de Fonseca (str. Franco, no. 3)

20.30

Presentation Ceremony of the XIX International Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia 2015.

Performance by the choir ‘SondeNós’

Logo Xunta de Galicia oficialcompostela-group

  

Venue: Hostal dos Reis Católicos (Praza do Obradoiro)

21.45Gala dinner and ‘Queimada’
  
 

Saturday, 26th September 2015

  
10.00

Excursion: The Way of Saint James: Origins and End

The last day of the General Assembly is reserved for a visit which aims to put in context the Way of Saint James, one of the seeds of the idea of Europe and the CGU’s essence. The excursion will consist on a slight pilgrimage by a stretch of the Portuguese Way passing through the village of Padrón; it is in some locations of this place where Jacobean traditions have their origin. In addition, those attendees who stay until the evening at Santiago on Saturday will have the opportunity of enjoying a guided visit to the cathedral, in order to approach the experience that each year thousands of pilgrims live by walking the Way from all over the world. 

 

Programme

General Council
24th – 15:30h

Opening Conferences
25th – 9:30h

Compostela Dialogues
25th – 12:00h

Full Programme
24th-25th

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