{"id":407,"date":"2018-05-15T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/?p=407"},"modified":"2018-11-21T21:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T21:40:39","slug":"universitiesfastforward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"1st  UnILiON Thematic Event: \u201cUniversities Fast Forward \u2013 Value in Diversity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the first UnILiON Thematic Event <strong>\u2018Universities Fast Forward \u2013 Value in Diversity\u2019<\/strong>, which will take place on Tuesday 16 October 2018 from 17:30-21:00 at the Fondation Universitaire.<\/p>\n<p>When? <strong>Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:30 \u2013 21:00<\/strong><br \/>\nWhere? <strong>Fondation Universitaire, Rue d&#8217;Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior representatives of UnILiON universities will showcase the societal and economic value of university education and research, followed by a panel discussion with high-level policy-makers and a reception:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programme<\/strong><br \/>\n17:30 Registration &amp; Welcome<br \/>\n18:00 Introduction by<strong> Massimo Busuoli<\/strong>, Secretary of UnILiON and Head of NTNU Brussels Office<br \/>\nModeration by <strong>Maryline Fiaschi<\/strong>, Managing Director Science|Business<br \/>\n18:15 Flash presentations by the following senior representatives of UnILiON universities:<br \/>\n<strong>Ignace Lemahieu<\/strong>, Vice Rector for Research, Ghent University<br \/>\n<strong>Anne Borg<\/strong>, Vice President for Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology<br \/>\n<strong>Ralph Blum<\/strong>, Vice President for Research, Nuremberg Tech<br \/>\n18:45 Panel Discussion with:<br \/>\n\u2022 The speakers from the UnILiON universities<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Wolfgang Burtscher<\/strong>, Deputy Director-General, European Commission DG RTD<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Stefaan Hermans<\/strong>, Director Policy Strategy and Evaluation, European Commission DG EAC<br \/>\n20:00 Networking Reception<\/p>\n<p>Registration is now open via Eventbrite. For more information, please contact the UnILiON organisation team. The UnILiON event organisation team consists of the below offices:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Aalborg University Brussels Office<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2022 Alliance 4-Universities Office for the Promotion of European Research Activities<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2022 BayFOR-Representative Brussels Office<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2022 University of Bristol, Bristol-Brussels Office<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2022 Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin EU-Liaison Office \u2022 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Brussels Office<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2022 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos \/ Universidad de Alcal\u00e1 Brussels Office<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2022 Vrije Universiteit Brussel European Liaison Office<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to seeing your there,<\/p>\n<p>the UnILiON Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the first UnILiON Thematic Event \u2018Universities Fast Forward \u2013 Value in Diversity\u2019, which will take place on Tuesday 16 October 2018 from 17:30-21:00 at the Fondation Universitaire.<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unilion.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}