Podcast #12 - Reinventing European Universities. An interview with François Taddei, 20/08/2019

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🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The European Universities Initiative, a new EU funding programme for university networks, supports experimental models of collaboration across borders. We have François Taddei, in Paris, on the line. Monsieur Taddei is an educator, a teacher, he has co-founded a research and learning centre in Paris called CRI, which holds an UNESCO chair for “learning science”. He is also a counselor for one of the new European university networks. Our questions are: • What is this EUI about? • Is this initiative a continuation of the Bologna Process? Another push for more academic mobility? • What makes this different from other EU higher education funding policies? • The EU call is all about 'internationalisation' and 'innovation' - how can that ever lead to pedagogic experimentation or student participation? • Was this the idea at the Sorbonne in 2017, when the French president Emanuel Macron first proposed to build university networks? • The first 17 university networks have been chosen in July 2019, the second call will be published in October. What is the kind of project that has the chance to be successful in the future? This podcast forms part of a series, produced and disseminated by ESNA Media, on the subject of higher education and science policy. Produced and edited by Tino Brömme Music by Zende Music, Bologna ESNA European Higher Education News, Berlin www.esna.tv INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE https://tinyurl.com/taddei-esna

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0:00.0	And again, we are talking about the European universities initiative, a new EU funding program for university networks, experimental models of collaboration across borders.
0:14.1	This is the ESNA Higher Education and Science Policy podcast. My name is Tino Brumme. Welcome to edition number 12.
0:23.4	After our conversation with Olga Vessels from the University Network ECIU, today we have
0:30.4	Francois Tadé in Paris on the line. Monsieur Tadé, you are an educator, a teacher. You have co-founded a research and learning center in Paris called CRI, which holds an UNESCO chair for learning science. You were also a counselor for one of the new European university networks. So, what is this European university initiative about?
0:56.8	Universities are being challenged. We used to have a sort of a monopoly on places of both
1:03.5	construction of knowledge and sharing of knowledge. But today, there is many other places
1:09.3	where you can do either of those two things.
1:11.6	So the specificity of what a university is and what it should be is challenged. And I think the
1:20.3	European University initiative is one that is inviting universities to rethink their mission
1:26.9	and in what role they can play for society,
1:30.6	what added value they can offer to their students and to the researchers and to the society in general.
1:37.2	Is this initiative a continuation of the Bologna process and have a push for more academic mobility?
1:44.2	It's certainly part of it, but the same package includes also more money for Erasmus,
1:51.2	which is definitely for increased mobility.
1:53.8	And so I think that would not be enough.
1:56.7	If the only aim was to increase mobility, there could have been other ways of doing it.
2:00.7	And this European universities, you know, is it more than universities based if the only aim was to increase mobility, there could have been other ways of doing it.
2:05.3	And this European universities, you know, is it more than universities based in Europe initiatives, which, you know, is it just trying to, you know, get a few more ranks into the
2:12.0	Shanghai ranking or any of the other international ranking? Or is there something more substantial?
2:17.1	This has been quite out of debate. But I think that what it could be is the will to
2:21.9	includes other dimensions that are not typical of universities.
2:26.0	What makes this different from other EU higher education funding policies?
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