Past Events

Stefan Zeitz

Exploring Difference: "Supporting Academic Freedom in International Cooperation and at Home"

Academic freedom is a core higher education value for universities and research institutes globally, nurturing critical minds and defending intellectual diversity they foster democratic values and open societies.

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Exploring Difference: Bachelor`s / Master`s Transitions 20 Years after Bologna

The two-tier degree system of the Bologna Reform offers students a variety of possible combinations: a change of study location and discipline, but also an acquisition of practical experience between the degrees.

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Zeitz

Exploring Difference: The Third Mission of Universities

The conference on June 27, 2017 in Berlin dealt with the topics 'Strategy and Practice for Collaboration with Business and Society'.

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Paasch

Exploring Difference: Wege zur Professur

The joint meeting of the Stifterverband and ID-E Berlin on November 7, 2016 was part of the Berlin Science Week (in German).

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Paasch

Exploring Difference: Diversity Management and Equity as Factors for Student Success

The twelfth conference in the ID-E Berlin series focused on the challenges that a diverse student and faculty body poses towards successful student retention and graduation rates

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Ausserhofer

Exploring Difference: Strategies to Make University Teaching Count

The eleventh conference in the ID-E Berlin series on December 1, 2014 focused on teaching excellence in higher education.

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Exploring Difference: International Perspectives on Teacher Training

Perspectives from anglophone countries and Finland on teacher training were discussed at the tenth conference in the ID-E Berlin series on November 7, 2013.

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Exploring Difference - Transnational Education Models, Drivers and Challenges

The discussions' focus of the ninth conference on October 23, 2012 was on Anglo-American and French models of Transnational Education (TNE).

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Exploring Difference – Transdisciplinary research and its impact at higher education institutions

The eighth conference in the ID-E Berlin series on October 10, 2011 examined the opportunities and challenges of the rise of theme based research in global academia.

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Exploring Difference – Postdoctoral Careers in Global Academia

The challenges facing postdoctoral careers in global academia were discussed at the seventh conference in the ID-E Berlin series on October 11, 2010.

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Exploring Difference – Recruitment, Selection and Admission of Doctoral Candidates

The sixth conference in the ID-E Berlin series on April 26,2010 addressed the challenges concerning the transitional phase into graduate training and doctoral promotion.

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Zeitz

Exploring Difference – Integrating Lifelong Learning into Universities’ Missions

The conference in the series "International Dialogue on Higher Education Berlin" on October 19, 2009 aimed to shed some light on the topic of lifelong learning at higher education institutions.

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Exploring Difference: Positioning your Institution – Marketing and Branding

The seminar on April 30, 2009 aimed to provide a comparative view at various institutional ways of universities from the US, UK, AUS and CAN which have in the past successfully positioned themselves in their quest for the competitive edge in their home country.

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Exploring Difference: The Challenge of (Post)Graduate Education

The event on October 09, 2008 looked at the wide variety of postgraduate education in Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom , and examine best-practice as well as new developments from these four countries.

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Zensen

Exploring Difference – The Philosophy of Undergraduate Education

The conference on April 10, 2008 contained the topics Great Diversity, Educational Market, Research Orientation, Mobility and Trends.

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Exploring difference – Making university teaching count Opening Event

The opening event of the ID-E series took place at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin on 15 October 2007.

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