| Preliminary Programme, as of 26 March 2015 |
| Wednesday, 06/05/2015 | ||
 14:00 - 18:00 | On-site Registration/ Networking [More Info] | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception [More Info] Speaker: Allan Cahoon, President, Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE) Speaker: Dato Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, President, International Association of Universities Speaker: Guy Lefebvre, Vice-recteur aux relations internationales et à la Francophonie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada | |
| Thursday, 07/05/2015 | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | On-site Registration [More Info] | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome* [More Info] Speaker: Guy Breton, Rector, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada Speaker: Allan Cahoon, President, Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE) Speaker: Eva Egron-Polak, Ms., International Association of Universities | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Opening Plenary | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Social Innovation : the concept, the practice, the place of higher education* [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Manuel J. Fernós, President, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, IAU Vice President Speaker: Dato Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, President, International Association of Universities Speaker: Juan Luis Klein, Directeur, Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES), QC, Canada | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break [More Info] | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Concurrent sessions Series 1 – Social Innovation, governance, impact, accountability | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Workshop A : Actors and governance* [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Nigel Harris, Vice-chancellor, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica - IAU Board Member Speaker: Louis Lévesque, Sous-ministre des Transports, de l'Infrastructure et des Collectivités Gouvernement du Canada Speaker: Beer Schröder, Advisor, EP-NUFFIC, the Netherlands | Workshop B : Impacts [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Sijbolt Noorda, President, Magna Charta Obervatory (the Netherlands) Speaker: Francesc Xavier Grau, Non-Executive Director, GUNi/ACUP, Spain Speaker: Mireille Mathieu, Professeur émérite de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch [More Info] | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Plenary Session: summary feedback from the two concurrent sessions (wksp A and B)* [More Info] Speaker: Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Speaker: Marianne Granfelt, Secretary-General, Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF), Sweden, IAU Board Member | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break [More Info] | |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Interactive workshop: Social impact of innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?* [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-chancellor, University of Ghana – IAU Board Member Speaker: Luciano Barin Cruz, Professeur agrégé, Département de management, HEC Montréal Speaker: Johanne Turbide, Directrice du pôle IDEOS, HEC Montréal, QC, Canada | |
| 19:30 | GMA Dinner [More Info] | |
| Friday, 08/05/2015 | ||
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Highlights of IAU activities + Global Project on Strengthening Community University Research Partnership [More Info] Budd Hall, Co-Chair, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, University of Victoria, BC, Canada Crystal Tremblay, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, , The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Panel: Universities and university associations as actors in Social Innovation* [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Former Rector, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, IAU Immediate Past President Speaker: Etienne Ehilé, Secretary-General, Association of African Universities (AAU), Ghana - IAU Board Member Speaker: Pam Fredman, Rector, Göteborg University; President, Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF), Sweden, IAU Vice-president Speaker: Patricia Gudiño, Secretary-General, Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE), Canada Speaker: Robert Proulx, Rector, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), QC, Canada | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break [More Info] | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Concurrent sessions Series 2 – University and university associations as actors in Social Innovation [More Info] | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Workshop A [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Guy Lefebvre, Vice-recteur aux relations internationales et à la Francophonie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada | Workshop B [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, President, Siam University, Thailand, IAU Vice-president |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch [More Info] | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Concurrent sessions Series 3 – Case Studies and Models of Social Innovation | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Workshop A : University in its social milieu [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Christina Cameron, President, Canadian Commission for UNECO, ON, Canada Speaker: Budd Hall, Co-Chair, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, University of Victoria, BC, Canada Speaker: Olive Mugenda, Vice-chancellor, Kenyatta University, Kenya | Workshop B : University and its economic partners* [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Rachida Azdouz, Conseillère Principale en Développement Stratégique, Direction des Relations Internationales , Université de Montréal, QC, Canada Speaker: Yves Beauchamp, Vice-recteur au développement du futur campus Outremont de l’UdeM, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada Speaker: Roberto Escalante Semerena, Secretary-General, Association of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL), Mexico - IAU Deputy Board Me |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break [More Info] | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Plenary Session: summary feedback from the concurrent sessions Series 2 & 3* [More Info] Chair/ Moderator: Abderrahmane Rida, Vice-recteur à la programmation et au développement, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Speaker: Jenifer Cushman, President, Association of International Education Administrators, United States Speaker: Zoltán Dubéczi, Secretary-General, Hungarian Rectors' Conference, Hungary | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | The future of Social Innovation: taking stock and promising orientations* [More Info] Speaker: Rémi Quirion, Scientifique en chef du Québec, Fond de recherche du Québec, Canada | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Closing and Thanks* | |
