The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do...
Transcript of The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do...
![Page 1: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The benefits of international cooperation
![Page 2: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The European Honors Council (EHC) is a new European network
around the subject of talent development in European higher
education.
Open for individual membership from June 2, 2016!
Become a member at www.honorscouncil.eu
2
![Page 3: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Session set-up
• European Honors Council (EHC): background and goals
• EHC Board
• EHC membership (+ questionnaire)
• Discussion to gather themes and ideas to stimulate further
international cooperation
3
![Page 4: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
EHC background
• What do European higher education institutions offer students
who can and want to do more than just the regular study
program?
• Some information available, mainly from field of gifted
education … but no structural research about or network in HE
4
• Research in eleven countries
• Book published in open access at Springer
• Over 32,000 downloads so far
![Page 5: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Honors provisionsper country (2014)
5
Wolfensberger 2015
![Page 6: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Overview of honors in eleven countries
Country HEIs researched in total HEIs with honors programs
Austria 22 3
Belgium 11 4
Denmark 16 6
Finland 14 3
Germany 110 17
Iceland 7 0
Luxembourg 1 0
Netherlands 52 39
Norway 18 0
Sweden 31 0
Switzerland 21 0
Total 303 72
6
![Page 7: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Honors in Europe –preliminaryoverview 2016
7
![Page 8: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
EHC background (2)
• Initiative taken to bring together key persons from countries
included in the book in Nijmegen, June 2015
• Steering group formed: 10 people, representing 10 countries
• Two more meetings in the Netherlands (January / April 2016)
8
• Organization now ready to
open for membership
![Page 9: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
At conference ‘Honours Futures’
Before:
• EHC initiated conference recognition by Dutch EU presidency
• Co-organizer International Faculty Institute in Groningen
At conference:
• EHC launched and opened up for individual membership
• Seven sessions initiated or supported by EHC
Follow-up:
• Development and expansion of network
9
![Page 10: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Network goals (1)
• Supporting and stimulating development of honors education
and its structural embeddedness in the education system
• Creating a common language
• Supporting teacher professionalization (within honors)
• Creation and exchange of knowledge about honors programs
• Stimulating and facilitating research about honors
• Enabling networking for people involved in honors
10
![Page 11: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Network goals (2)
• Stimulating spin-off of successful honors practices to regular
education
• Promoting an easier flow of talented students from secondary
to higher education
• Stimulating professional development of honors students and
connection to working life / research career
• Stimulating collaboration and inspiring student exchange at
honors level
11
![Page 12: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
What we offer
• opportunities for exchange of knowledge and good practices
• possibilities for student and teacher exchange at honors level
• joint research projects
• a platform to support the development of (structural
embeddedness of) honors programs in national education
systems
Compared to existing networks, the EHC offers:
• Focus on talent development and honors in higher education
• Focus on programs that are designed for students who can and
want to do more than the regular program offers
12
![Page 13: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Four committees, related to goals
1. Research
2. Education
3. Student affairs
4. International affairs
Members can join one or more committees
13
![Page 14: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Acting board
• President: Dr. Marca Wolfensberger (Netherlands)
• Financial affairs (treasurer): Ron Weerheijm, MArch (Netherlands)
• Membership affairs: Dr. Marleen Eyckmans (Belgium)
• Secretary (internal and external communication): Dr. Maarten Hogenstijn (Netherlands)
• Commissioners education: Prof. Christian Fischer (Germany); withRon Weerheijm
• Commissioner research: Dr. Astrid Fritz (Austria)
• Commissioners student affairs: Drs. Pieter Veenstra (Netherlands); with Vivian van Gerven (Germany)
• Commissioners international affairs: Prof. Nils O. Andersen (Denmark); with Dr. Astrid Fritz
14
![Page 15: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Board members represent and/or link to organizations:
• Nordic Talent Network, uniting talent development initiatives in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland)
• ÖZBF, Austrian Research and Support Centre for the Gifted and Talented (linking to educational institutions at all levels)
• ICBF, Internationales Centrum für Begabungsforschung (ICBF), Münster – Germany
• Begabungsnetzwerk (national network Switzerland)
• ECHA, European Council for High Ability
• National networks in the Netherlands (follow-up Sirius)
• Higher education institutions taking a leading role in talent development and honors education, such as University of Antwerp, Utrecht University, Rotterdam UAS, Hanze UAS
• National Collegiate Honors Council (USA)
15
![Page 16: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Acting board
Top row left to right: Nils O. Andersen, Pieter Veenstra. Middle row: Astrid Fritz, Marleen Eyckmans. Bottom row: Ron Weerheijm, Maarten Hogenstijn, Marca Wolfensberger, Vivian van Gerven.
Not on picture: Christian Fischer, Victor Müller-Oppliger
16
![Page 17: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Membership
• Become an individual member now and be kept up-to-date and
involved in all this is happening in this field throughout Europe.
• Membership is open to all involved in honors education
• Membership is free (for the foreseeable future).
• Information is needed to further build the EHC. Therefore, to
join the EHC, you fill out a short questionnaire.
• The membership questionnaire can be found at
www.honorscouncil.eu
17
![Page 18: The benefits of international cooperation...international cooperation 3 EHC background •What do European higher education institutions offer students who can and want to do more](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051912/600371a2cf942e22d37fb122/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
18
www.honorscouncil.eu
Please join the EHC!