ECTS MA Annual and Anniversary Meeting Coimbra, Portugal

Friday 8th May and Saturday 9th May 2009

Programme

Thursday 7th May 2009 20:30 Welcome reception by the Mayor of Coimbra in the Hotel Tryp

Friday 8th May 2009

From 09:00 Registration at conference venue in Polo III

09:30 Opening ceremony: Welcome addresses.

Francisco Castro e Sousa- Dean of FMUC

10:00 Mobility as a tool for openness, efficiency and quality

- Invited speaker

11:00 News from the Board – Past and Projects

- Borghild Roald, ECTS MA President, Oslo

11:30 Coffee break

11:50 ECTS data base – An experimental observatory

- Sylvain Meuris, ECTS MA Board member, Brussels

12:20 - 12:50 MEDINE II application update – The Mobility Toolkit

- Kiki Thermos, ECTS MA Board member, Crete

12:50 - 13:00 ECTS MA website: Open Access to Mobility

- Birgit Heller, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Clearing House

ECTS MA Annual and Anniversary Meeting Coimbra, Portugal

16:00 - 17:00 Anniversary celebration

From Coimbra to Coimbra: 20 years with ECTS Inner Circle, 5 years with ECTS MA Successive Presidents:

João Relvas Jacques Winand Jean-Pierre Wauters Tim Jones Manuel Vijande Borghild Roald

20:00 Anniversary Dinner in the S. Marcos Palace

Saturday 9th May 2009

International ECTS Training School

9:30 Introduction

Chairmen of Honour: - Jorge Veiga, Former Institutional Coordinator of ECTS- University of Coimbra; - Cristina Robalo Cordeiro, Vice Rector- University of Coimbra.

Past and Present of ECTS

Chairman: Francisco Castro e Sousa, Faculty of Medicine - University of Coimbra

- Madalena Patrício, President of AMEE - University of Lisbon. - João Relvas, Faculty of Medicine - University of Coimbra, First

President of ECTS - ICMG. - Manuel Vijande - University of Oviedo, Former President of

ECTS MA

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

ECTS MA Annual and Anniversary Meeting Coimbra, Portugal

11:15 ECTS Best Practice Experiences- Past and Present of ECTS

1. International Officer’s Perspective

Filomena Marques de Carvalho, Institutional Coordinator- University of Coimbra

Ana Isabel Ferreira, DRIIC- University of Coimbra

2. Teacher and students’ Perspectives

Catarina Resende de Oliveira – Faculty of Medicine - University of Coimbra

Miguel Castelo Branco, Faculty of Medicine - University of Coimbra

Henrique Igreja Dinis, Former ERASMUS Student, Coimbra

João Pedro Marques, Former ERASMUS Student, Coimbra

Galini Koursari, Present Incoming Student, Prague

13:00 ECTS-MA General Assembly

13:50 Closing remarks

14:00 Lunch

From 15:00 Coimbra Guided Discovery