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PIE Annual Meeting 2023
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PIE Annual Meeting 2023
Timișoara, Romania
The Internationalisation Journey: Tell your story

24 – 26 May 2023
Hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Design at The West University of Timișoara

 

ELIA is thrilled to announce that the Platform Internationalisation ELIA – better known as ‘the PIE community’ will meet at the PIE Annual Meeting 2023. Kindly hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Design at The West University of Timișoara, the meeting will take place on 24 - 26 May 2023.

PIE – Platform Internationalisation ELIA brings together deans and heads of internationalisation, policymakers, teachers, and other staff members of ELIA member institutions. Those who are researching, advising, creating strategies and policies and implementing them in the field of internationalisation.

During the PIE Annual Meeting in Timișoara, we will trace our steps and examine the many ways we are dealing with internationalisation within our institutions currently. What processes do we focus on? In which direction are we heading? Where are these internationalisation paths going to bring us? The PIE Annual Meeting 2023 in Timișoara is a 3-day in-person, peer-to-peer learning experience aimed not only to inspire higher education professionals but to provide a unique networking opportunity for everyone involved.

Registration fee: 100€ (incl. two lunches, two dinners, coffee breaks, materials, event support, networking opportunities)

Deadline for registration: 15 May 2023

REGISTER HERE

 

FULL PROGRAMME

 

 

THEME

The Internationalisation Journey: Tell your story

Internationalisation in higher education has walked many different paths until today. In the 1990s, the concept of internationalisation was adopted by higher education and was used primarily for commercialisation purposes in the Anglo-Saxon world of higher education. Europe and other parts of the world were at the early stages of the journey of students going abroad and paying tuition fees for their foreign degrees. Mobility in the form of exchange of students and teachers was the path being followed. With the development of internationalisation as a concept in higher education, some European countries too started following the education-for-money path. Higher education was no longer free.

However, the journey of internationalisation also took another path with the signing of the Bologna Treaty in the European Union. Education degrees were standardised, and the European Credit System was introduced. Internationally this meant that the European Union was making education flexible within its borders. Erasmus mobility programmes became important.

The different facets of internationalisation became important for “…the purpose of enhancing the quality of education and research …and make any meaningful contribution to the society” (de Wit et al. 2015). This is true too for higher arts education institutions. Some are at the beginning of the journey, and some are halfway while others are quite far in reaching the goals they have set.

The political, economic, academic, and social-cultural rationales have seen the concept of internationalisation evolve through the last few years. Commercialisation has become less important and quality of education and research, intercultural dimensions and global perspectives have become important.

Higher education institutions nowadays have to develop international strategies, goals, and policies for either the introduction of internationalisation within their institutions or implement internationalisation.

The PIE Annual Meeting 2023 investigates these journeys. How are internationalisation strategies being planned and executed? Which paths are higher arts education institutions deciding to take? What are the stories can we tell about these journeys?

Photo Album

Browse below the moments captured in photos at the PIE Platform Meeting 2023.

PIE Annual Meeting 2023

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Venues
The main venues will be:

Faculty of Arts and Design at The West University of Timișoara, Oituz Street 4
The West University of Timișoara, Vasile Pârvan Boulevard 4

Hotels
Here you can find a list of recommended hotels, all of them withinin a walking distance from the main venues:

Travel
You can travel to Timișoara by train, bus, car or plane. We encourage you to consider sustainable modes of travel (e.g. using public transport, traveling by train or bus instead of plane, choosing direct flights if travel by train is not possible).

Trains travel to Timișoara from as far afield as Vienna, Budapest and Munich, and the train station is very central.
The distance between Northern Railway Station of Timișoara and Faculty of Arts and Design is about 3km.

Viitorul Transport and Normandia provide daily buses from Bucharest to the central bus station, which is just behind the train station.

You can fly to Traian Vuia International Airport, which has connections to cities such as Berlin and London.
The distance between Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport and the Faculty of Arts and Design is about 10km.
There is a bus connection Express no. 4 (E4) from the airport to the centre of Timișoara.
More info about the transport between airport and the city centre can be found here.

Timișoara has close borders with Serbia through the Moravita border point, with Hungary through the Cenad border point. Timișoara – Vienna (550 km) |Timișoara – Budapest (300 km) | Timișoara – Belgrade (150 km).

Other info
For more information about Timișoara, please visit the following websites:

HOST INSTITUTION

West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Arts and Design

In 1990, the Faculty of Arts was re-established in Timișoara, after a period of 11 years in which its operation had been interrupted. University artistic education would become a component of the University of the West, an institution with a strong humanist tradition. Immediately after the Revolution, the University of the West experienced extensive institutional reform which created the necessary conditions for the resumption of study programmes that were gradually abolished during the communist period.

The study programmes offered by the Faculty of Arts and Design cover both the areas of traditional arts and applied arts, as well as the theoretical area. Through the 11 directions of study at bachelor's level, 10 directions at master's level, and the respective doctoral studies, F.A.D. successfully provides an impressive range of options in the field of Visual Arts.

Artistic creation, scientific research and visual education are harmoniously brought together, through the university’s intrinsic vocational ethos, and through its highly valued academic body.

        

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