Programme

10 June 2025

Morning

9:00 - 12:30 :  Meeting of the Coimbra Group Executive Board

Rectorate, Sala Giunta, Via Zamboni 33

 

Afternoon

Complesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8

13:30 - 14:30  Welcome and registration 

14:30 - 17:30 Working Groups meetings - parallel sessions

  • Academic Exchange and Mobility (AEM) 
  • Doctoral Studies (DS) 
  • Education Innovation (EDU) 
  • Employability (EMP) 
  • Equality & Diversity (ED)  
  • Global Partnerships (GP) 
  • Heritage (HER) 
  • Latin America (LA) 
  • Life Sciences (LS)
  • Research Support Officers (RSO) 
  • Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) 
  • Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) 

17.30 - 18.30 Launch of the book “European University legacies: Problematic Heritage and Contemporary Practice”

Organized by the Heritage Working Group 

11 June 2025

Morning

09:00 – 10:30: Meeting of the Coimbra Group Executive Board, Coimbra Group Representatives and Working Group Chairs and Vice-Chairs 
Rectorate Sala VIII Centenario, Via Zamboni 33


11:00 - 13:00 Working Groups meetings - parallel sessions 
Complesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8

 

11:00 - 13:00 Equality & Diversity (ED)  WG meeting
11:00 - 13:00 Latin America (LA) WG meeting
11:00 - 13:00 Life Sciences (LS) WG meeting
11:00 - 13:00 Research Support Officers (RSO) WG meeting

11:00 - 13:00 Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) WG meeting 

11:00-12:00 AEM-EMP Inter-WGs meeting
(access restricted to Academic Exchange and Mobility and Employability WGs members only)
11:00-12:00 Open session “Digital Heritage and the University” jointly organised by the Heritage WG and Una Europa Alliance (open to all delegates)

Speakers:

  • Bernadette Biedermann (University of Graz), Chair of the Heritage WG
  • Patrizia Battilani (University of Bologna)
  • Silvio Peroni, “The Digital Twin of the exhibition The Other Renaissance. Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Wonders of the World”.
  • Maria Laura Vignocchi (University of Bologna), “AlmaDL, the Digital Library of the University of Bologna”.


11:00-12:00 Open session “University and local authorities: joint models of global partnerships and actions” organised by the Global Partnerships WG  (open to all delegates)

12:00-13:00 Open session “Decolonizing University Heritage” organised by the Heritage WG 
(open to all delegates)

Speakers:

  • Bernadette Biedermann (University of Graz), Chair of the Heritage WG
  • Gertjan Plets (Utrecht University)
  • Patrizia Battilani (University of Bologna), international project “Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations” (COLUMN).

12:00-13:00 AEM-GP Inter-WGs meeting 
(access restricted to Academic Exchange and Mobility and Global Partnerships WGs members only)

12:00-13:00 DS-EMP Inter-WGs meeting
(access restricted to Doctoral Studies and Employability WGs members only)

 

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30

Afternoon

14:30 – 15:15: Reflected in Water. Development, resilience, inequalities Keynote speech, Andrea Rinaldo Emeritus Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & University of Padua

The Q&A session will feature questions from the PhD candidates of the University of Bologna:

  • Riccardo Mazzoleni (Ph.D. student at the Department of Agricultural and Food Science)
  • Federica Marino (Ph.D. student at the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences)

15:15 - 16:30: From Durham to Bologna; the climate declaration Organized by Durham University 

Speakers:

Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden

Charlotte Clarke, Durham University’s Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Health,

Judith Akoto, Durham PGT student (Master’s in Sustainability, Energy, and Development)

Daniel Donoghue, Professor of Geography , Member (Treasurer) of the Coimbra Group Executive Board

Rector’s reflections

Q&A session 

 

17:00 – 18:00: Meeting of the Coimbra Group Executive Board, Coimbra Group Representatives and Working Group Chairs and Vice-Chairs
Rectorate, Sala VIII Centenario, Via Zamboni 33


18:30: Evening reception at Palazzo Isolani

12 June 2025

Morning

Complesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8

09:30 - 10:00
Opening Remarks

Giovanni Molari, Rector of the University of Bologna 

Isabella Conti, Regional Councillor for Welfare, the Third Sector, Childhood Policies and Education 

Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission video message


​10:00 - 11:00: Global Shifts, Innovative Futures: shaping inclusive excellence Keynote speech, Kum Kum BhavnaniUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Raffaella Campaner, Vice Rector for International Relations

With the participation of Student Ambassadors Onyekachi Kizito Ugwu and Aiswarya Varadarajan Nair, who will contribute to the discussion

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30: Empowering Local and Global Communities: from the Poitiers Declaration to the Future
Chair: Maria Letizia Guerra, Delegate for Public Engagement
Round table: Rectors of Coimbra Group Universities and Mayors of the cities.

Lunch

12:30 – 13:45

Afternoon

Complesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8

13:45 - 14:00:  3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Live Final

Moderation: Adriana Zait, Chair of the Coimbra Group Doctoral Studies Working Group

  • Personalized Medicine - Health for Every Body Bianca Brandl, University of Graz
  • Looking Inside the Liver: Unveiling Cancer’s Metabolic Fingerprint Uffe Kjærgaard, Aarhus University
  • Triggering Healing: Materials that Outsmart Brain Cancer Almudena Moreno Borrallo, Trinity College Dublin

14:00 - 15:00: Open Session on the European Universities Alliances: "How to handle the social responsibility with the Alliances?"

Chair: Prof. Silvia Bianconcini, Delegate for Una Europa 

15:00 – 15:15: 3MT Competition Results Announcement
15:15 - 15:45: Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00: Open session “Is your University truly Inclusive and International? organised by EUniverse (open to all delegates)


16:00 – 18:00: Parallel Meetings: 

  • Closed Rectors´ Meeting
  • Erasmus Student Network Meeting with the Coimbra Group Universities
  • Global Partnerships  (GP)  Working Group Meeting ( access restricted to GP  Working  Group members only)

 

Gala Dinner

19:00 Welcome cocktail, Gala Dinner and group photo

 

13 June 2025

Morning

09:00 – 11:00 Coimbra Group General Assembly
11:15 - 11:45 Executive Board Meeting (Only for EB members and CG Office)

11:30-12:00 Open Session
Inspiring examples of communities of practice in higher education

Farewell Lunch

12:00-13:00

Cultural Programme

13:00 - onwards: Cultural Programme

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