Cedia
/ ICA Conference 2009
Leuven, Belgium
June 11th - 13th 2009
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Seventh Conference Announcement
Call
for Contributed Papers
Dear Colleague
I would like to announce the CEDIA - ICA Conference 2009 - Models
for successful collaboration and partnerships between universities,
businesses and NGOs - in education, research and consultancy.
The Conference
will take place between Thursday 11 June and Saturday 13 June in
Leuven, Belgium. We are promoting the conference with our partner
ICA (Association for European Life Science Universities)
Please download
the flyer for further information. The conference will
address operational models for exploiting complementarity and synergy
under the following themes:
1) Education:
models for the successful involvement of stakeholders in the education
process
2) Research, development and knowledge transfer - benefits, complementarity
and challenges
3) Financial support of universities by businesses: towards an American
model
4) Internal organisation of universities to manage the link with
businesses
5) Relation with companies: cultural behaviour
Key explanatory
phrases for each of these themes are given in the attached Conference
flyer. You are invited to submit an abstract for a contributed paper
which addresses one or more of these themes. We invite papers which
report on successful strategies for collaboration and partnership
between universities and businesses - large businesses or SMEs.
Please also suggest who we might also contact from business/industry
to give a keynote presentation around these issues.
Please submit
a 400 word abstract for a contributed paper by email to european.agronomists@orange.fr
copy to Simon Heath (clues@abdn.ac.uk)
by 28th February. Please make sure that you give an email address
and telephone number.
Please put
the date of the Conference in your diary now!
Register your
interest in receiving further details of the Conference by sending
an email to european.agronomists@orange.fr or to Simon Heath at
clues@abdn.ac.uk. The Cedia
General Assembly 2009 will be held during the Conference.
If you have
any queries please do not hesitate to contact us
Kind regards
Sean Gaule
President of Cedia
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Lyonnel Tirelli
Secretary General
Cedia
european.agronomists@orange.fr
and
Dr Simon B Heath
Secretary General
Association for European Life Science Universities (ICA)
(formerly the Interuniversity Consortium for Agricultural and Related
Sciences in Europe)
c/o Dean's Office, Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Bulowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
tel + 33 4 67 76 32 68 or mobile +44 7801 611525
fax + 45 35 33 26 64
email: clues@abdn.ac.uk
http://www.ica-europe.info
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