Kick-off Conference, Berlin May 2012

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1 Kick-off Conference, Berlin May 2012 The EUROSTUDENT V work programme II Dr. Dominic Orr Higher Education Information System, HIS Ms. Sarah Gerhard Ortega Federal Statistical Office Switzerland, OFS Mr. Martin Unger Institute for Advanced Studies, IHS Ms. Christine Scholz National Commission for Higher Education, NCHE Ms. Froukje Wartenbergh-Cras ResearchNed Ms. Hanna-Stella Haaristo Praxis Mr. Achim Meyer auf der Heyde European Council for Student Affairs, ECStA 1

2 1 Management & coordination: HIS-HF (and all members of consortium) This is the workpackage responsible for assuming the smooth execution of the whole project. Due to the fact that this project does not simply involve the coordination of work of the 7 consortium partners, but also the coordination of work from all 25 plus country teams (researchers and policy-makers) delivering data for analysis from tailor-made national surveys, this task is extensive. The management team work as initiators and controllers of the tasks carried out in the workpackages and as secretariat for the coordination of work in the national research teams and cooperation with external partners. The daily management will involve the coordination of logistics and budget management. Project leadership Daily management and coordination Administration/daily support Administration/accountancy (1.1)Wiki-based project pages, project documents, including project outline and participation agreement with country contributors to the project (restricted access) continuous (1.2)Project webpage (open access), project publications, including project brochure continuous (1.2)Regular project newsletter (x9) 3 x per year (1.2)Annual Report (x3) Jan 13, Jan 14, Jan 15 Management travel (12 trips) Minutes on country meetings continuous Prepare and execute Meetings Consortium (6 people meet (1.3)Meetings Consortium 5 times 5 times in DE) Prepare and execute Kick-off workshop in DE (1.4)Kick-off workshop May 12 2

3 2 Conventions for data collection: IHS (IHS, HIS-HF, Praxis, ResearchNed) This workpackage is responsible for the establishment of common standards for data collection in the participating countries (25 plus) via national surveys. This means that it sets down common questions for these surveys and a common procedure for the delivery of the national data for central analysis. The basis of all deliverables in this work package is a common agreement on the core set of questions and common conventions. Following preparatory work amongst two partners, a working group will be convened to discuss and agree the final questions and conventions. It will meet at the kick-off workshop to discuss first steps and this will be followed by a seminar in July, which will be attended by all members of the consortium working in this work package plus a number of external experts. Evaluate and modify core set of questions and comparative (2.1)Handbook Core set of questions and project continuous indicators conventions Data delivery tool (DDM), incl development of indicators & graphics (2.2)Handbook Data delivery handbook, including definition and explanation of comparative indicators Sept 12 (2.3)Internet-based data delivery tool March 13 WG Seminar "Core set of questions." WG members = Project consortium & ESU, EComm (2.4)Working group seminar (AT) July 12 3

4 3 Data collection & delivery: ResearchNed (IHS, HIS-HF, Praxis) This workpackage will support the participating countries in the execution of their national surveys. Since previous experience with EUROSTUDENT has shown that the large majority of countries will be using online surveys, special support is available for this medium. Therefore a number of measures will be adopted to assist national teams: 1) a handbook, 2) explicit assistance in their preparations for online surveys for a select number of countries, other countries may contact the leader of the work package for some support via electronic communication media 3) a demonstrational prototype of the core set of questions in the form of an online survey will facilitate this translation process. Additionally, 4) three seminars will take place, each attended by around one third of participating countries (3 x 12 persons for each seminar, excluding seminar leader). The staging of the seminar is staggered to better fit with countries own timetable. Development of handbook for executing online surveys in (3.1)Technical support and supervision of online surveys Jul 13 framework of EUROSTUDENT for up to 5 new countries (3.2)Handbook for executing online surveys in framework Jan 13 of EUROSTUDENT Development of model online survey (3.3)Development of model online survey Jan 13 Preparing WG Seminar (3.4)E: WG Seminar "Exec. of national surveys" WG members = Consortium plus external expert = p.p. (travel&sub) in AT Preparing seminars and support post-seminar (3.5-7)E: 3 x Seminars "Exec. of national surveys" for each 12 attendees from recruited countries in EE, EE and NL Oct 12 Jan 13, Mar 13, May 13 4

5 4 Reporting & dissemination: HIS-HF (IHS, Praxis, ResearchNed, NCHE) This workpackage involves many of the partners in the task of producing policyrelevant, reliable and comparative analyses. These analyses will be used for a country-focused presentation of the key indicators on a dedicated internet platform (DRM), a comparative synoptical presentation and interpretation of key indicators in country comparison (Synopsis of Indicators) and presentations at a large, international conference of experts and stakeholders by various members of the project consortium. Design and programming of Data reporting tool (DRM) (4.1)Data reporting tool (DRM) / Eurostudent database Jun 14 based on DDM Drawing-up analyses for comparative report (Synopsis of Indicators) Presentations at external conferences/seminars of initial results WG Seminar "Comparative report" WG members = Consortium plus 2 = 8 p. in EE (4.2)Comparative report Oct 14 (4.3)5 or more Presentations at external From Jun 14 conferences/seminars (4.4)WG Seminar "Comparative report" Nov 13 Preparation of final conference (in AT?) (4.5)Final conference Oct 14 5

6 5 Exploitation: Praxis (IHS, HIS-HF, ResearchNed, NCHE, ECStA) This workpackage has the task of assuring the use of project results for decisions and policy evaluations related to the social dimension of higher education. It will achieve this working with other comparative data providers and users throughout the project lifetime, especially with Eurostat, Eurydice and the Bologna Follow-Up Group. Towards the end of the project, this work will be extended to working with national agencies and partners on national dissemination and exploitation strategies. A further way of assuring the use of project results is to make key results easily available and easy to interpret. This will be achieved by the formulation of Intelligence Briefs. Drawing-up Intelligence briefs (5.1)Intelligence briefs May 15 E: WG Seminar "Intelligence briefs" WG (5.2)Seminar "Intelligence briefs" Jul 14 members = Consortium plus 1 external expert in MT Working with other data users (esp. BFUG) (5.3)Working with other data users (esp. BFUG) From Jan 13 Working with national partners on exploitation and dissemination strategies (5.4)Working with national partners From May 14 6

7 6 Quality assurance: Statistics Switzerland During the project lifecycle, Statistics Switzerland will act as an assessor of the quality assurance measures adopted within the project to assure the reliability and comparability of the data set. Quality checks of the work will be carried out at or near the conclusion of each of the project phases (preparation of national surveys, data collection, data delivery and control & data analysis and dissemination). The strategic direction of the project and an on-going evaluation on the importance of certain objectives and activities of the project will be discussed together with an International Steering Board, which will meet 4 times during the project lifetime. The leader of the workpackage is also the chairperson of the International Steering Board (the meetings of which will take place in Berlin). The Steering Board will be formed consisting of 8 members. The Steering Board shall be composed of three representatives of the fee-paying countries and 5 Stakeholders (representatives of European Students Unions (ESU), Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) and European Commission), Dutch Ministry, German Federal Ministry Internal Quality Assurance and 4 specific quality checks Quality checks x4 Feb 13, Jul 13, Dec 13, Feb 15 Organisation and execution of Steering Board with Meetings Steering Board 9 people meet 4 times in DE Meetings of Steering Board (chairmanship) x4 Dec 12, Dec 13, Dec 14, May 15 7