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FIRST TRANSFORM4EUROPE INSPIRING TALKS AND VIVID DISCUSSIONS<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”1px” css=”.vc_custom_1628690988868{background-color: #71af3a !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”container”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”48px”]\r\n SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”container font-content”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″]\r\n On Friday, 3 December 2021, the Transform4Europe Alliance held its first Strategic Assembly Meeting. Due to the ongoing pandemic situation, the meeting was organized as a virtual event. The Strategic Assembly was open to all members of the Transform4Europe community and aimed at reflecting about the work of the alliance, looking ahead and answering questions.<\/p>\n In his welcome speech, Professor Manfred Schmitt, President of the coordinating institution Saarland University, thanked all the members of the alliance for their hard and dedicated work within the first year of collaboration. The opening was followed by short talks focussing on the main thematic areas of the Alliance, beginning with the contextualization of Transform4Europe in the European University Initiative given by Anke Stahl, Head of Division of Project Policies, Internationalisation and Research, University Networks from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She stressed the importance of cross-border collaboration in the frame of European Universities in times of rising nationalism across the globe.<\/p>\n After these encouraging keynote speeches, the subsequent talks focussed on how Transform4Europe has been working to transform Europe by educating and training knowledge entrepreneurs in the areas of digital transformation and smart regions, environmental transformation and sustainability and societal transformation, community building and inclusion.<\/p>\n Professor Benedikt Schnellb\u00e4cher from Saarland University presented the concept upon which we base our revolutionary work as an Alliance \u2013 Knowledge Entrepreneurialism. In his intriguing lecture, he focused on the \u201cTransformation potential of Knowledge Entrepreneurialism\u201d and what we want to contribute to within our Alliance framework. Professor Vilma Bijeikien\u0117 from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas focussed on \u201cMultilingualism as key for transformation and social inclusion\u201d. In her light-hearted talk, she gave concrete examples of the close and personal collaboration within the alliance, with special mention to the first\u00a0Transform4Europe European Day of Languages<\/a>\u00a0and the great contribution multilingualism makes for community building. Emilie Szwajnoch, the Vice-President of the Transform4Europe Student Council, highlighted the importance of students\u2019 participation within the alliance in her empowering speech on \u201cThe role of Students on the sustainability of European University Alliances\u201d. Professor Stelian Dimitrov from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski concluded this section with his talk on \u201cOvercoming the challenges of building smart regions\u201d, which raised many interesting questions by the audience and lead to a vivid discussion, with the dynamic participation of all speakers.<\/p>\n The meeting was rounded off by Transform4Europe Managing Director Cyntia Sandes Oliveira, who presented the alliance\u2019s achievements of the first year and the upcoming milestones and events in year two. In the last section of the meeting, the most frequently questions on the alliance, as well as questions from the audience were answered by Cyntia, showing a great interest in the work of Transform4Europe.<\/p>\n The recording of the meeting as well as the presentations will be uploaded shortly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”container”][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#71af3a”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1628696935370{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1628676746787{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”1px” css=”.vc_custom_1628690988868{background-color: #71af3a !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”container”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”48px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”container font-content”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”container”][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#71af3a”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] […]<\/p>\n
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