PROGRAM AND MATERIALS

See the invitation.

Tuesday, March 13

Meeting of the Rectors

Time: March 13, 2012, 9:00 – 16:00
Place: Rovaniemi, University of Lapland

1. Short greetings of the hosting universities: Rector Mauri Ylä-Kotola and Rector Lauri Lajunen
2. Opening the meeting; Chair of the meeting Rector Mauri Ylä-Kotola
3. Accepting the agenda of the meeting
4. Minutes of the previous meeting of Rectors organized in Oulu, February 24, 2011 (appendix 1)
   • Final acceptance of the partners 
5. Greetings from the BCBU Vice-Rector meeting, held in Arkahangelsk in Nov 2011
   • Short resume of the main themes, proposals and decisions of the meeting: Marina Kalinina, Vice-Rector for International Co-operation, Chair of the Vice-Rectors´ meeting in Arkhangelsk, Northern (Arctic) Federal University
6. Internal evaluation of the BCBU -cooperation – results and discussions: Jani Suokanerva (pdf, 150 kb)
7. Contractual arrangements (appendix 2)
8. Marketing, visibility of the BCBU master´s programmes
9. Extent of commitment of the partner universities at the moment and in the future; possibilities, challenges; next steps in the development of the co-operation towards double/joint degree

   Short address:

   • MSHU, Rector Andrey Sergeev

   • KSPA, Rector Sergey Grippa (pdf, 800 kb)

   • NSMU, Vice-Rector for Strategic Development, Alexander Vyazmin (pdf, 1,5 Mb)

   • NArFU, Vice-Rector of International Cooperation Marina Kalinina

   • PetrSU, Vice-Rector for Education, Vladimir Syunev

   • MSTU, Head of International Cooperation Department Natalia Anikeeva (pdf, 250 kb)

   • NUC, Rector Arne Erik Holdø (pdf, 5,2 Mb)
      

10.  Internal and external cooperation (cooperation between Russian partner universities; between Finnish partner universities; cooperation with UArctic and other Nordic and international partners)
    • Address by President of the UArctic Lars Kullerud
11. Financing of the BCBU –cooperation and individual master´s programmes (current situation at the
    partner universities; ENPI; possible Russian, Finnish, Nordic, European or international funding sources)
    • ENPI project – short report of the current situation of the project: Coordinator Sari Martikainen,  (pdf, 1,20 Mb)
    • Travel grants for students of the BCBU partner universities offered by University of Oulu and University of Lapland
12. Other issues
13. Time and place of the next BCBU Rectors´ meeting
14.  Closing the meeting
     

Tuesday, March 13

Joint Steering group meeting - Master's Progrmmes in Comparative Social Work and Environmental Engineering

Wednesday, March 14

Joint meeting of the Rectors and members of the working groups

Activity reports the BCBU Master's Programs

• BEE Barents Environmental Engineering (pdf, 400 kb)

• CSW Comparative Social Work (pdf, 450 kb)

• MCH Health and Wellbeing in Circumpolar Areas (pdf, 300 kb)

• MICLAW International and Comparative Law (pdf, 100 kb)

• GS3D Software, Systems and Services Development in Global Environment (pdf, 2,5 Mb)

Questions, discussions, next steps, conclusions

Closing of the meeting