HUMANE Annual Conference

Urgency and Strategy - Universities’ Funding, Future and the Crisis

Ghent University, Friday 18^th to Saturday 19^th June, 2010

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With speakers now attending from the OECD and EUA the HUMANE Annual Conference has now become an important forum on how universities are coping with the economic crisis and formulating strategies to survive in the future.

Conference Chairman John Fürstenbach writes:

During the last year HUMANE members have had to manage the effects of the financial crisis, whether it has been about cutting costs, increasing student numbers or finding alternative income sources.

Countries within the EU have reacted in different ways to the economic crisis. Some governments decided to invest in universities and research, seeing education and innovation as drivers for economic recovery.

Given this context, where are universities now? How do we move from reaction - urgency and crisis, to strategy? What have we learned and what are the trends in solving problems related to funding and the management of funding and finance? Fundamentally, how can a university not only survive, but strengthen itself in these challenging and uncertain times?

We have had some seminars touching upon these issues during the last 14 months. We are inviting presenters from these seminars to come back and tell us more, and we will add new analysis and reflection.

HUMANE is a driver for the professional attention to these issues in European university administration. This HUMANE conference is not restricted to HUMANE members; we are inviting all members of the higher education community in Europe to join us in defining the future strategies to truly find our feet for success in the next decade.

 Conference announcement and final programme 

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 Please register online at www.humane.eu or with this link: Online Registration

 Contact

 Please contact Tim Evans ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) should you require any further information